{"id":13011,"date":"2016-08-14T10:38:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T14:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gars.org\/gars\/?p=13011"},"modified":"2019-12-14T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T15:40:10","slug":"beginners-corner-august-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gars.org\/gars\/beginners-corner-august-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Beginner&#8217;s Corner August 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Have Radio Will Travel<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I was young (read \u201cancient history\u201d), there was a television program called \u201cHave Gun Will Travel\u201d.&nbsp; I don\u2019t remember seeing it, but the name stuck in my mind all these years.&nbsp; Now, as an amateur radio operator, I don\u2019t like to shoot people.&nbsp; I just want to talk on the radio with them.&nbsp; Hence the title of this column.<\/p>\n<p>I was fortunate enough to take two trips in July, once to Rochester, New York, and once to Omaha, Nebraska. Now I just don\u2019t go on a trip without a radio.&nbsp; I had my trusty Kenwood TH-F6 handy talkie with me. It is also my mobile radio when I travel long distances. I had it programmed each trip with all the frequencies I could find in the ARRL Repeater Book.&nbsp; On the way up and back, I thought I would try an experiment.&nbsp; This radio has dual receive.&nbsp; I had one channel on the two meter national calling frequency of 146.520.&nbsp; This way I could hear any nearby hams calling.&nbsp; This radio has a very wide receiver frequency range.&nbsp; I set the second frequency to CB Channel 19.&nbsp; Now, I can just about hear the howls about CB.&nbsp; I understand, but in an emergency one is much more likely to hear what\u2019s going on by listening to CB rather than amateur radio.<\/p>\n<p>The results \u2013 NO activity on 146.520, and occasional CB activity.&nbsp; It was just an experiment. The CB channel did make it easier to find out which lane to get into during a traffic jam.&nbsp; Nearly every trucker has a CB rig in the truck.&nbsp; On both trips, I saw only one other ham radio operator.<\/p>\n<p>I had a lot of free time in Rochester.&nbsp; I had programmed every repeater I could find, and hit the jackpot.&nbsp; I spent a day in the hotel monitoring every frequency I could monitor.&nbsp; I had a scanner with me, as well as a multi-band portable.&nbsp; I spent about an hour talking with a local ham about the scene in Rochester.&nbsp; He was a retired engineer who, according to him, built a complete linked repeater system, including controllers.&nbsp; I was talking with him on one repeater and he was on a different repeater.&nbsp; I mentioned to him that I was from the Atlanta area, and he used the Internet Radio Linking Project (irlp.net) to link up with a repeater in downtown Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>I also checked out the AM radio stations there.&nbsp; My favorite station?&nbsp; WHAM (<a href=\"http:\/\/wham1180.iheart.com\/\">http:\/\/wham1180.iheart.com\/<\/a>), of course!<\/p>\n<p>Traveling with your radio, even with an HT, is not hard.&nbsp; You will need to have at least a magnetic mount antenna that covers the bands your radio has. Of course, it has to be connected to the radio!<\/p>\n<p>You will need to program your radio.&nbsp; It is a good idea to find out what frequencies are in use in your destination.&nbsp; You can program them in manually, but most folks will use a cable and programming software to do the work.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; It is so much easier to just upload a new program file than to manually change frequencies.&nbsp; You can use the Chirp software to do this.&nbsp; It is available for most radios.&nbsp; I use commercial software from RT Systems (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtsystemsinc.com\/\">https:\/\/www.rtsystemsinc.com\/<\/a>) for most of my radios.&nbsp; When I find out what repeaters and simplex channels are available, I enclose them in a file.&nbsp; I name the file for the destination.&nbsp; For example, I called my Nebraska file \u201cOmaha\u201d.&nbsp; I can either upload the file before I leave or when I arrive at my destination.&nbsp; When I return, I just upload my local frequency file, and I am up and running in no time.&nbsp; Happy traveling with your radio!<\/p>\n<p>We would like to hear from you about your experiences or questions you may have as a new ham.&nbsp; You might have a question that will make a good topic for a future column.&nbsp; Please email me at kj4cmy@gmail.com.<\/p>\n<p>73,<\/p>\n<p>David Harden<\/p>\n<p>KJ4CMY<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have Radio Will Travel &nbsp; When I was young (read \u201cancient history\u201d), there was a television program called \u201cHave Gun Will Travel\u201d.&nbsp; I don\u2019t remember seeing it, but the name stuck in my mind all these years.&nbsp; Now, as an amateur radio operator, I don\u2019t like to shoot people.&nbsp; I just want to talk on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[17,18],"class_list":["post-13011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginners-corner","tag-beginners-corner","tag-newbie"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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