2019 The St Cloud Amateur Radio Club is having their Annual Hamfest February 9th 2019 at the St Cloud Armory
General admissions $8.00
Large Swap meet with radios, antennas, computers and more. Ham Radio testing will be offered and your admission enters you into a chance to win Door Prizes!
You can visit their website for more information https://w0sv.club/hamfest
Information provided by Chad Gross. You can email the club @ w0sav@w0sv.club
Details are scarce, but rumor from Bill KD0YRF is that the court house may be the location for a new DMR system.
Bill KD0YRF shared on the Wednesday night at October 24th that Nagi has sold his repeater located at the Medina site to the County.
Motorola Mototrbo code plugs for the following models have been updated:
Here is a summary of the revisions in this release:
NOTES:
Most DMR-MARC, K4USD, BrandMeister and DMRPlus talkgroups are available in “Contacts > Digital” for the convenience of those who want to customize their code plugs.
The “P” and “M” after your name in contacts follow the original DMR-MARC convention for Portable (P) and Mobile (M) ID assignment, they do not represent your middle or last name initial. This keeps the Subscriber ID unique for the two allowable by DMR-MARC.
The following Subscriber ID’s have been added to contacts:
MN DMR code plugs and FLEET MAP can be accessed at this LINK.
Right now you can order a SharkRF OpenSpot for 50% off until Easter or maybe supplies run out. You need to buy in Euro dollars and pay a good chunk of money for shipping. I (n0nki) would like to organize a group purchase to save on the shipping… If you buy on your own, you’ll pay 95 Euros + 24.85 Euro in shipping… If you pay use(sales) taxes as all of us legally need to do, you spend about $160 USD.
With the group buy, we’re looking at about or less than $140 combined including the sales tax which I’ll process (unless you can provide an exemption certificate for resale)… This rate assumes 7 purchases and we’re just about there… The price only goes lower if you are interested… But we need to hurry as the group doesn’t want to loose out because we were waiting on someone to commit. If interested, contact me (n0nki) and let me know you want in the group buy. I’m going to place the order on Friday… Prepayment expected as we’ll be waiting a few days for the delivery and I can’t afford to be holding extra equipment or without the funds if someone backs out.
If you want to just buy direct, here’s the link: https://shop.sharkrf.com/
Here’s a jumble of calculations if you would like to try and figure out my math.
| 1.28 | $ Conversion | Qty | |||
| euro | Qty1 | USD | 7 | USD | |
| Shark | 95 | 121.6 | 665 | 851.2 | |
| Shipping | 24.84 | 31.7952 | 38.11 | 48.7808 | |
| Sales Tax | 9.5872 | 12.27162 | 71.99846 | ||
| 0.08 | 971.9793 | ||||
| Total | 165.6668 | 138.8542 | |||
Here’s another teaser for a future bridge between networks. Zello is an application available for your PC or mobile phone that provides a push-to-talk interface to “channels”… There’s now a channel for Minnesota Talk-group 3127… Today they are not linked, but there’s still a community of hams who have the app installed. Might be soon that the hardware is purchased to bridge these networks. Imagine pulling your cell phone out of your pocket and participating on the DMR network using nothing but a free app on the phone you already have with you! Check out https://zello.com/channels/k/fIWvQ
The Buffalo Hamfest was this past weekend. Quite a few people were in attendance. I’d like to toss out a few thank you’s to John KA0KMJ and I know I’m going to be missing names and calls but there were several people associated with the Maple Grove Radio Club who supported us this past weekend. From purchasing table space, providing power, providing an outside 70cm antenna, etc. Galen and John, Dave and Dave, everyone who stopped by the booth. Thank you for making the event what it was. Wouldn’t have been the same without each and every one of you.
In other news, there was a digital conference in Puget Sound. You can watch the entire set of presentations online via YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1sWCtVzzak Information about the conference is posted at http://www.microhams.com/mhdc/
Looks like some really amazing technical content. I’d love to attend one of these coming years. Here’s some of the slides from the event.
Motorola Mototrbo code plugs for the following models have been updated:
Here is a summary of the revisions in this release:
NOTES:
Most DMR-MARC, K4USD, BrandMeister and DMRPlus talkgroups are available in “Contacts > Digital” for the convenience of those who want to customize their code plugs.
The “P” and “M” after your name in contacts follow the original DMR-MARC convention for Portable (P) and Mobile (M) ID assignment, they do not represent your middle or last name initial. This keeps the Subscriber ID unique for the two allowable by DMR-MARC.