Re: [PLUG] FOSSCON communication ops

[Jim Fisher <jedijf@myfisher.org>]

QSL.

Last year was my first FOSSCON as an amateur.

We went, what some thought was a little 'ham heavy'.

There is a trend in security conferences for license testing and much
more. Much of the 'much more' is based on SDR.

I will have amateur gear and so will others. I suggested that we use
the 'con simplex'

Simplex 146.580   http://conham.org/

as our local talk frequency.

If you want license testing or anything else at FOSSCON please let the
staff know your interests. Not me. All the others. My interest in
known.

If there is a strong enough interest, I am sure that /almost/ anything
amateur related can be added to FOSSCON '16.

Less than ONE week!

Gotta go, tons of stuff to do!

See you all at FOSSCON Saturday.

73

sk

On 8/14/15, Keith C. Perry <kperry@daotechnologies.com> wrote:
> Good point !
>
> One of the things I like about the Baofeng's is that there is nothing to do
> to achieve this. In fact, in CHIRP there is a default config for FRS/GMRS
> and MURS. Just open those up and copy them to your config. You'll have to do
> some name editing since the Baofeng screen is only 7 chars but once you're
> done you're good.
>
> Most important thing is to set the power to the lowest setting which
> actually is still to high for FRS...
>
> Which is why have have a little "mini-duck" antenna :)
>
>
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> From: "Guo Yixuan" <culu.gyx@gmail.com>
> To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List"
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> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 12:36:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] FOSSCON communication ops
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 14, 2015 12:08, "Keith C. Perry" < kperry@daotechnologies.com >
> wrote:
>>
>> This might not be the right place to talk about this but Chris (paden) and
>> I were talking about this and I figured I would just put it out there. I
>> know Jedi Jim is lurking too...
>>
>> Are we going to have a net up for FOSSCON? To operations cases come to
>> mind here:
>
> Great idea!
>
>> general communication for FOSSCON operations
>> opportunity to show and talk about amatuer radio to attendees. This
>> includes pointing out to people that they do not have to be licensed to
>> purchase the radio and ANY decent vhf/uhf ham radio is going to be worth
>> getting because you can use it for FRS and MURS without a license. If
>> someone has or wants a GMRS license they can also use the same rig. Point
>> being, they can listen in on amateur stations and even if they don't
>> license (or get licensed right away), the radio is still useable.
>
> It's worth noticing that some vhf/uhf radios don't allow transmitting on
> FRS/MURS bands by default (to my surprise). It's better to check the spec
> before purchasing one.
>
> eg., for TH-F6A, some electrical mod is needed:
> http://w4zt.com/mods/thf6/mods.html
>
>> I want to credit Jim for getting me to first consider the Baofeng's last
>> year. I didn't want to put out the money to fix or replace my Yaesu so
>> this sub $100 was perfect to get me back on the net after a very long time
>> being away.
>>
>> Anyway, this is first full FOSSCON so I'm not sure how things have
>> operated before but I thought I would ask.
>>
>> 73, N3QQZ clear
>>
>> :)
>
> By the way, I'm quite new to amateur radio. I was encouraged by my college
> friend and took the exam, but didn't try much after getting my callsign
> (KC3CES). Anyway, I'm looking forward to play more with radio if time
> allows.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Yixuan
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