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Ca346
Advanced Member
Username: Ca346
Post Number: 940
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2004 - 12:20 pm: | 
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I talked with KarateButcher for the first time today on a 2M repeater accross the Valley (150-180miles) I live in. After over a year of yakking on copperelectronics.com with him, I finally connected in person. He and I live in California, but we have never been able to connect on the radio. We talked while he was driving South on I-5 through the area.
His voice sounds much YOUNGER than he really is....  |
Crackerjack
Intermediate Member
Username: Crackerjack
Post Number: 234
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2004 - 2:24 pm: |
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2 meter makes you sound younger?
Maybe there is still hope that I can get Vicky to use one? LOL |
Bob_p
Intermediate Member
Username: Bob_p
Post Number: 148
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2004 - 2:48 pm: |
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Ca346 can you hit the repeater in the Grapevine? I can hit it most of the time and if I turn my little Yagi that way It might make it easier.
Just a thought
Bob |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 814
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2004 - 3:59 pm: |
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Which repeater do you use? I will try to hit it. |
Bob_p
Intermediate Member
Username: Bob_p
Post Number: 152
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2004 - 7:46 pm: |
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I normally use the Big Bear repeater 147.330 at 131.8, but I can hit the Grape Vine repeater 145-330 also at 131.8. I've heard that people near Fresno hit it because it's up in the mountains not sure how far north it covers but it is up pretty high. It would be great if a few of us out here in Ca. could hit the Grape Vine repeater. |
Yankee
Intermediate Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 200
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 1:41 am: |
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Are any of these machines you guys speak of on Echo-Link? If they are I can talk to to you guys via Echo-Link as soon as you send me a private E-mail with your machine calls as well as your own calls. I don't post my call, but I will let you know who I am.I talk to KB on Echo.
Thanks guys, 73 CEF-357 Carl |
Yankee
Intermediate Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 201
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 1:50 am: |
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KB just licensed in March of this year. |
Bob_p
Intermediate Member
Username: Bob_p
Post Number: 155
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 6:26 am: |
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I can't configure my routers firewall to accept echo-link. I wish I could, had it before and it waas pretty cool, but... |
Geekster
Intermediate Member
Username: Geekster
Post Number: 113
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 8:21 am: |
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Did somebody mention a CEF Echolink net yet? |
Ca346
Advanced Member
Username: Ca346
Post Number: 944
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 5:59 pm: |
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Bob_P
What is the exact name of the Grape Vine repeater you are referring to? The frequency and the direction of the offset and the PL? Are you talking about Ridgecrest?
I've been fighting a computer virus yesterday and today.... |
Yankee
Intermediate Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 202
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 7:29 pm: |
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Bob P, I have Zone Alert Labs fire wall and have it set on medium and Echo-Link works fine. I also have been fighting with my PC for about the past 2 weeks, but it seems to be running fine now.
73, Carl CEF-357 |
Ca346
Advanced Member
Username: Ca346
Post Number: 946
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 7:34 pm: |
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I am not able to hit a repeater directly South of me. I have a nice big mountain right behind me. I have been able to hit Bakersfield when I was using 6 Meters, but the 2M South is tough. I have used the Parkfield repeater SW of me and the Coalinga repeater SW of me. I have connected to the Concord repeater NW of me in the morning hours, but the heatwaves knock it out later in the day.
I have yet to be able to use EchoLink because my modem speed is too slow, but I am within two or 3 repeaters here above me 10 miles (Fresno/Clovis, CA) that are linked. I suppose it is possible for a linked repeater to connect to one of these here? Without the computer? Linked repeater to linked repeater? Maybe someone can explain it? |
Bob_p
Intermediate Member
Username: Bob_p
Post Number: 160
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 7:40 pm: |
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Offset is standard 60 and is automatic in my radio so can't help much beyond that. The location is the small town near the top of the Grape Vine I can't think of the name of it, but the info is 145-330 also at 131.8.
Hope that helps
Bob |
Ca346
Advanced Member
Username: Ca346
Post Number: 949
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 9:54 pm: |
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I found a listing in the ARRL repeater directory under San Bernardino County for Big Bear lake? 147.33MHz, input is + , and the PL is 131.8 as you said. Is that it? The call for the repeater is K6BB. Open sys, autopatch, linked or crossband system. |
Dindin
Intermediate Member
Username: Dindin
Post Number: 312
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 10:11 pm: |
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Bob_p,I have the same problem with my Lyncsys router.And customer support is only in from 8 to 5 eastern-tuesday thru friday,hours that I cannot be here to have them walk me through the process of reconfiguring the port addresses.was talking to our computer guru at work about this problem today and he handed me a lan-hub and said to use it instead of the router.but alaas I left the plant this evening with the hub still sitting in my tool cabinet.oh well,there is always later. |
Bob_p
Intermediate Member
Username: Bob_p
Post Number: 167
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2004 - 11:35 pm: |
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Ca346 Thats my local repeater it has greqat range but the other repeater would be easier for you to hit.
I'll look at my radio and get all the info I can from it tomorrow.
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Yankee
Intermediate Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 204
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 3:11 am: |
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Well, I guess that was a lost effort, Just checked the Echo-Link roster and the K6BB machine is not listed as a repeater or listed under links. Unless the trustee takes it down at night, it is not on Echo-Link.
So I guess I will not be able to talk to you gentlemen in California.
73, Carl CEF-357 |
Yankee
Intermediate Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 205
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 3:39 am: |
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CA 346, Was able to find your call, If ever you do get on Echo-Link, I'll give you a jingle. I identify with my call and my location, Purcell Oklahoma.
73, Carl CEF-357 |
Ca346
Advanced Member
Username: Ca346
Post Number: 950
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 9:42 am: |
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Okay Yankee, I also have a DTMF microphone on my "want" list, so when I get one I will be able to connect through IRLP repeaters, whatever that is.... |
Tech833
Moderator
Username: Tech833
Post Number: 822
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 11:40 am: |
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FYI, Yankee (and others). repeaters are NOT 'machines'. They typically have no moving parts. They are 'radio repeaters'. A machine has moving parts.
Had to get that out of my system. Thank you for the opportunity. |
Yankee
Intermediate Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 206
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 6:32 pm: |
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HE HE Tech 833, It's just that for years now the amateur operators have been calling repeaters MACHINES.
73,Carl CEF-357 |
Yankee
Intermediate Member
Username: Yankee
Post Number: 207
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, August 14, 2004 - 7:04 pm: |
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Geekster, A CEF echo link, link sounds like a good idea. First you have to buy the echo link board and set up as sysop, and then go about setting up a link. I would have to get the ordering info. from my friend Norman in Moore, Oklahoma n0els, Norman has had a repeater and a link on Echo Link, but for some reason they are no longer on Echo Link. BTW in the picture on your website, one of those guys has to be you.
73, Carl CEF-357 |
Karatebutcher
Senior Member
Username: Karatebutcher
Post Number: 1664
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 12:33 am: |
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Ok 346 I am back, and I read that younger thing, I made it back in 8 hours from Riverside, I called for you but you were in church, I called 5 times in different locations, oh who was that , that sounded like a little girl. ha ha
On echo tomorrow Lon/N9osn . Yankee/Kd5sdm. Lowpowerhal/Kc0svc.
Good talking to you CA346/Kg6cdr, you sounded great/ |
Ca346
Advanced Member
Username: Ca346
Post Number: 955
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 10:12 am: |
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KB:
How was your home when you got back? Saw the news about a big fire near you in French Camp? near Shasta lake? several homes burned to the ground? |
Karatebutcher
Senior Member
Username: Karatebutcher
Post Number: 1665
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 11:38 am: |
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WE ARE OK THANKS, THE FIRE WILL BE CONFINED IN JONES VALLEY today it is 6 miles from us, it was really bad, that is my fishing spot, was, French Gulf is really out of control, it is near but not to worry.
Good to talk to you on 2 meter, I will write you
Thanks KB |
Karatebutcher
Senior Member
Username: Karatebutcher
Post Number: 1666
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 11:42 am: |
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You wait till I get that Red Rasin, it will talk younger, like a girl. ha ha |
Karatebutcher
Senior Member
Username: Karatebutcher
Post Number: 1667
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Monday, August 16, 2004 - 4:08 pm: |
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All it is here is thick smoke, Hellacoptors carrying water from the lake to the fire, the nearest fire to us should be out tonight.
2 meter SCARS group is doing a wonderful job running the Red Cross . Scalavation Army radio, and the main control at Shasta College on 146640, many homes are gone, especially in Jonesvalley right to the waters edge. |
