This is an AnyTone 578UVIII PLUS. It's currently off. The activity light is blue. That's not ever described in the manual. That light goes cyan when receiving DMR, but not pure blue.
Furthermore, it only does this like a minute after I start the car. Only if the car has been idle for some time.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? This isn't documented, like, anywhere. It's one of those things where you search for it and it sounds like you're the only person in the world with the problem.
@mike_k Radio's off. I don't think it would be pairing anything while out cold..
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You're not 100% off though, those are bluetooth capable. But they just have an on-screen pairing notification since they're the primary. (You can pair earbuds to them, I think, at least you can do that with the handhelds, but there's also a wireless mic / remote head that they go with)
Funny thing about some American #Hamradio guys and their disdain for the Metric system, sometimes over the air arguments break out about it. Eventually some wag will pipe up " well you didn't put a man on the moon, did you?" In one particular rendition of this argument, somebody on the other side of the planet breaks in and says in accented English: " you didn't either, you paid Germans to do it, and Nazis to boot!" I Howled! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro&t=24s
@Tribear They didn't invent trains, cars, pasteurizing food, vaccination, democracy, electricity, radio, TV ... so singling out their moon program is arbitrary.
And each of the fields I mentioned had a MUCH larger impact on humanity than setting food on moon. That was basically just an ego trip, burning lots of money.
The argument "but space science brought us so many things" is true... but again, russians were faster. I mean, the Russian success triggered the US who trip.
And the actual moon landing (as opposed to numerous satellites with helpful jobs) was not really helpful to humanity. And so made the first satellite? A country with lots of issues ... but metric system.
Oh, and the USA lost a spacecraft due to unit conversion done wrong... look up "Mars Climate Orbiter" and why they lost that device. With metric system, and this no conversations, they would most likely not jeopardized the mission.
Here's a fun signal processing challenge that we invented during a hiking trip through cornwall 10 years ago:
At Lands End, there's the "Lighthouse" which emits an acoustic beacon consisting of regular loud beeps, presumably bc. this can be caught by sailors even in thick fog. Now, the question that occurred to us immediately: How far away from Land's End can you capture this sound with a microphone by using very steep FFT filters and convolution methods? Miles? Further? #hamradio #electronics
I have both the thick ARRL and RSGB radio handbooks. And they both contain lots of formulas where they adapt the calculation to feeds, miles etc. And with yards and stones (UK) things won't get better.
However, I knew most of the formulas in these books, but with SI units. Must simpler. And if there were "weird" constants, it was because of physical constants like speed of light. Not arbitrary factors.
I only could think "How stubborn and reform-resistant must be a nation to not adapt to something clearly better"
Message body line2: Do you carry an HT with you or keep a radio on while you are doing other things around the house or in the yard? [Y/N feel free to explain]
Message body line3: Do you agree to have your callsign shared in the check-in list? [Y or N/opt-out]
Please boost and encourage each other to practice using Winlink!
From another club:
On the 146th day at 5:20pm local time everyone get on 146.520 and see who you can talk to.
146th day of 2024 is May 25th and it's a Saturday!!!"
I went looking for different ways to use AllStar repeaters from the comfort of my home, and it seems to be lacking any kind of dedicated client for Linux, let alone something for iPhone or the web.
Does everyone just set up a hotspot/node and operate that way? I’m thrilled about a diy project, but I was surprised there wasn’t a straight forward way to just connect via software like EchoLink.
@brainofdane I believe this is a deliberate choice (perhaps valid) of AllStar being meant to connect RF nodes, not connect software only, which often happens with EchoLink. They all have their uses and whatnot, of course, but there's a feeling among some hams (which I tend to support) that "ham radio" needs to require some radio in the chain.
There are some new comments on my #Inclusivity in #hamradio blog post on @kb6nu blog. I'm not sure if something happened to re-surface this conversation, but I am happy people are engaging with it.
Even "Joe" who threatens me to "support straight christain hetero males and females… we are the majority that pay to keep the arrl alive…remember that !"
Thursday and Friday were busy. First, we had a joint meeting with ZHP, LOK, OPOR and PZK to develop a unified stance on amateur radio service exams. This includes transferring exams to community examiners from the amateur radio community, eliminating session-based exams and fixed dates, implementing an electronic exam platform, and defining satellite amateur service.
Direct generation of radio waves using a special generator:
Next super long wave Grimeton #SAQ transmission on 17.2 kHz will be on Alexanderson Day July 6, tuning of the transmitter 8:30 UTC, transmission 9:00 UTC
Since it is in the audio spectrum, It can be received in Europe using merely a long wire and a sound card input! More specialized loop or active antennas are advisable. #hamradio #electronics
What saddens me is so many hams think a dipole is best because it presents a "perfect match" of 50ohms. Wrong. A dipole is roughly 72 ohms if you are lucky and wildly different depending on height and structures nearby.
Yagi antennas are even worse depending on the design and often need an antenna tuner hidden at the antenna. Get the lowest loss feedline you can use and don't feel guilty about the tuner in the shack.
Good news, the radio club president (KR3LL) and friend works at Kicker and took my LCD module and de-soldered it after which I was able to complete the assembly. It all fits in the case and aligns perfect. I was able to tune it fine. However I'm not getting any RF power out, I can receive fine when connected to an antenna. Do you have any recommendations for tracing the issue?
@brainofdane nice! What material did you go with? If it’s PLA, beware of extreme warping/shrinking in the regular heat of a car; I have had several prints melt in my and my in-laws' cars. 😬
Since my portable shortwave receiver is hardly picking up anything on HF (including no WWV signals), I think I'm going to wait a bit before digging out my antenna and related gear for working this month's #SKCC#HamRadio weekend sprint.
@sclower I'm in the middle of a huge move, so have nothing to do anything with. However, I would have thought all the heavy geomagnetic activity this weekend would be improving HF propagation.
These solar storm numbers make me wonder for a moment how much fun I'd be having this weekend if I had picked a normal hobby like #hamradio instead of building Internet infrastructure in my free time.
There's a thing that really bothers me in the #HamRadio world. There's a bunch of videos and articles about how to use HTs. How to program them for repeaters, Vox, etc.
I've been a ham for about a year and a half. I have never struggled with how an HT works. Where is the demand for all of these resources?
Once you understand the concepts at play (which, sure, are novel to a new operator, but aren't particularly complex), it's a simple matter to look up how to set a tone on an arbitrary radio.
