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VE6NS

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  1. That has to be the one thing this radio can't do besides open the beer can! I just got mine yeasterday there is so much stuff packed into that radio but the TX/RX is as good as my IC-W32A that I have had for 6+ years!!!

     

    I do have the GPS module and Mic interface it picks up the sats very fast even inside a apartment 10 feet from the windows!

     

    I used the crappy stock antenna the other day to open a cold one :P

  2. HI Folks, It's been a while since this topic got worked on, but I just came across it... I'll be taking the Technician Class exam in a few weeks and I am wondering how to get setup with the GPS connected to the HT as well. If the TinyTrak or OpenTracker1+ uses the speaker/mic jack, is it possible to use the HT for communication simultaneously? Or do you sacrifice that part for the GPS info?

     

    You will need to unplug the cable from the HT to use voice, plus you will need to move off 144.390 to a voice frequency as well.

  3. Anything agreed upon yet?

     

    146.520

     

    In reading up on QRZ.com, the concensus among the amateur community is to QSY to another frequency once contact on the calling frequency is made. This is said to apply to the HF, VHF, and UHF allocations. So if this is indeed the preferred practise, or as it was put on the Zed a Gentlemans agreement, what should the frequency be that the hamcaching community QSY's to? We wouldn't want to violate a Gentlemans Agreement steeped in tradition now, would we?

  4. I know how that goes. I tried getting a local ham group together. We did good for a bit, but slowly died out until we just stopped meeting.

     

    The 2m is OK for local stuff, but I was thinking HF-20m or 40m, something to cover a little more area when traveling. The 2m will cover some of the skip zone before 20 or 40 would be usefull.

     

    I am currently in the middle of putting a business together at my home, so I don't have any gear running there. I did move the 706MKIIG to the truck. That is what made me ask if there was an established frequency.

     

    I have played with Echolink, it is OK, but doesn't seem like radioing to me. Still cool though.

     

    I'll bet some of the APRS guys love this geocaching.

     

    I believe there is only a couple of hams in my area that cache. Industry Canada(your FCC) shows almost 200 licensed amateurs within 50 miles of the home qth, but I imagine only 20 or so actually active, and 5 or 6 with aprs. Even I haven't fired up the HF rig in quite some time. Oh well, with a bit of luck maybe enough interest will show up on the boards to get something going.

     

    73

    Shawn

  5. So, we have established that some geocachers are hams and some hams are geocachers. Now, can we establish a frequency and time and try to get a net up and running, or at least a frequency we could all keep an ear out for other cachers?

     

    I am thinking a less than formal net, just a place to park the dial and chat while driving between cashes or when it is too cold, rainy, hot, or nasty to be out geocaching.

     

    If you know of any groups on the air, please post a frequency.

     

    David, W9DSC

     

    A caching frequency has been has been discussed but nothing could be agreed on, although 147.555 was tossed around quite a bit.

     

    147.555

     

    As for a net, there was once an Echolink node up for a bit, but seemed to die due to lack of interest.

     

    Echo Link

     

    Hope you have better luck than some others in the past with this.

     

    73

     

    Shawn

    VE6TEQ

  6. Thanks to everyone for the information. Now if I could just decide which HT to buy.

     

    Thanks

     

    I recently picked up a Yaesu VX-3. Great little radio so far. Might want to check it out.

     

    VX-3

  7. Because, for example, when the cords they are following take them right in the middle of a busy street, they're "probably" off a little, don't you think? In a case such as this, I for one appreciate the "correct" coordinates. =-)

    Why is it automatically the hider is the one that has the wrong coords. Could the finder not be the one that has the less accurate gpsr?

     

    I have a couple of caches listed on another site and everytime time I go to check on it, I get a different reading using the same gpsr. There are too many factors involved. If anyone is heading out to fnd a cache with full expectations that the cache is located at the exact coords posted will be in for a long day.

  8. I don't know how one thinks that coordinates are off. Older GPSr's have an accuracy with up to 10m discrepency while the newer ones are supposedly 3m. That means the coords could vary from 6m-20m. Ther is a benchmark at the corner of my block that I use to check my GPSr accuracy.... from bang on to 11m in discrepency. I guess I should contect the Government and let them know that their brass cap keeps moving.

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