The CS-700 by CSI is a very capable radio and at a price point of $180 is perfect for someone looking to explore DMR.  The $180 price is only available directly from CSI and only to licensed amateurs.   Another bonus of the CS-700, the USB guts of the programming mechanism are in the radio, …

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In my exploration of DMR, I’ve owned the following radios:   Motorola XPR6550 XPR4550 XPR7550 SL7550   Hytera PD362 – For Sale: $275 MD782G PD782G   Connect Systems CS700 – Amateur Radio Operator price is $180 direct from CSI.  If you’re a licensed Amateur, do not buy it anywhere else and pay more!   Kirisun …

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September was a bit of a slow month due to our regular vacation to Gatlinburg, TN and a business trip to South San Francisco.  However even with losing two weeks out of the month I still found some time for experimentation.   DMR, or Digital Mobile Radio, is a new mode that seems to be …

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Clearing out my inventory to make room for some new DMR gear.   Wouxun KG-UV6D   Motorola XTS 3K/5K Advanced XTVA   Motorola Saber 2 UHF   Motorola HT-1000 UHF (2)   Motorola DTR 550 (2)

Indianapolis has it’s first DMR repeater online.  W9AMT (441.200+) using Color Code 1.  The repeater is a member of the DMR-MARC world wide network and carries multiple talkgroups across it’s two time slots.  I have eight talk groups programmed into my HT across both time slots.  For reference: TS1/TG1 : DMR-MARC World Wide TS1/TG3 : …

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I received an email from [email protected] in response to a wanted ad I posted on eham.net.  After being ask to send an USPS MO to an address in a different state that the QRZ registration, I was immediately suspicious.  In checking QRZ, I noticed a different email address, so I reached out via that address …

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 The first half of the month was primarily devoted to putting the final touches on the Raspberry Pi presentation for the Indianapolis Ham Fest.  Both Ed and I finished up the live demos we were going to be presenting and made sure that everything was in order.  I really enjoyed the opportunity to present and …

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A few months ago, I was approached by members of the Indianapolis Hamfest Association about doing a presentation on the Raspberry Pi at this year’s Hamfest.  Naturally with anything like this, I immediately thought of Ed, my fellow ARRL VE/Technical Specialist.  Today we were called the Ham Radio Mad Scientists of our generation.  As I …

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Hello July! This year is flying by…. June saw the arrival of a new-to-me service monitor. I picked up an HP 8935 from a vendor I met at the Dayton Hamfest. The 8935 will replace my CT System 2100 and add some much needed functionality to the bench. My ham radio time last month was …

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I, along with Ed (K3HTK) are now listed as elmers covering Indiana for the Broadband Hamnet project.  We’ve had some time to play around with the project and are hoping to generate some interest in it and get more people involved to perhaps get a mesh network setup here in Indy. The issues that I …

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