How are you today?

[Ibex]

The life of an EMT hehe.

I should go to bed already. Just need to sync my iPod. New tunes in iTunes.

[Jaycee]

I am doing good. I went on a shopping spree on Amazon and bought lots of feminine clothing and I am so looking forward to having an early Christmas. Now all I have to do is get in shape so I can have a more womanly body rather than this male one, I really need to work on butt excercises!

[matty7]

I am doing good. I went on a shopping spree on Amazon and bought lots of feminine clothing and I am so looking forward to having an early Christmas. Now all I have to do is get in shape so I can have a more womanly body rather than this male one, I really need to work on butt excercises!

get on the stepper machine Jaycee - its hard work but you will get results really quick ....people at our gym avoid it because its a hard exercise but its the best ever for gains

[InbetweenDreams]

Well I have spent the weekend being a huge nerd...

I finally got my PSK31 stuff setup so I can carry on a conversation digitally over the 10 meter band (As a technician I can use 28.000 - 28.300 MHz for data and 28.300 - 28.500 MHz voice )...

So after that I decided I would get out my DVB-T dongle (digital TV in other countries) which doubles as a SDR (Software Defined Radio). These dongles go for like $30 max on eBay and can receive from 24 MHz all the way up to 1700 MHz...pretty much the scope of my discone antenna.

After I got the software setup and the coax cable made up been pretty happy with the results... Can pick up radio stations 80 miles away and get RDS data

[InbetweenDreams]

Also, for those who are curious, if you install SDR-Radio v3 you can open this wave audio file and be able to tune around the 2 MHz of radio spectrum... The file is very large, even though they're 8-bit samples it is 2 MHz in bandwidth as opposed to the typical 44-48 kHz...

http://www.sdr-radio.com

Data file: http://axle.servebeer.com/wp/wp-content/..._107_7.wav
It is a 700+ MB file so it will take some time over my 25 Mbps connection...

[JohnMusic]

I wonder if the internet can talk to or communicate with cb radio users using the cb somehow someway. I have not seen or touched a cb radio in over 25 years.

[InbetweenDreams]

I wonder if the internet can talk to or communicate with cb radio users using the cb somehow someway. I have not seen or touched a cb radio in over 25 years.

CB is still around, just outside the 10 meter amateur radio band... Usually just rednecks these days and people running illegal transmitters (In excess of 1 kW)...

But to answer your question about using the internet to talk to people on the radio, yes, very much yes...

The two popular methods is D-STAR. I'm kind of new to D-STAR but you can via the internet can set to talk on a particular reflector, like reflector 77 apparently is the entire state of Tenessee. The D-STAR enabled repeaters have an internet backhaul, or a 10 GHz backhaul to another repeater. So either by through the repeater or the internet you can talk to anyone on that reflector in digital voice.... about the same audio quality as Narrow banded FM, but without any static... That's one of the things about digital voice you always have clear reception...then you get nothing...there's no "picket fencing" like you normally hear with FM.

The other method is Echo-Link which is more less an internet node. Folks can use the Echo-link program to talk into a repeater or otherwise through a echo-link node.

There are other means, there's packet radio, Win-Link, PSK31, etc...

[JohnMusic]

CB is still around, just outside the 10 meter amateur radio band... Usually just rednecks these days and people running illegal transmitters (In excess of 1 kW)...

But to answer your question about using the internet to talk to people on the radio, yes, very much yes...

The two popular methods is D-STAR. I'm kind of new to D-STAR but you can via the internet can set to talk on a particular reflector, like reflector 77 apparently is the entire state of Tenessee. The D-STAR enabled repeaters have an internet backhaul, or a 10 GHz backhaul to another repeater. So either by through the repeater or the internet you can talk to anyone on that reflector in digital voice.... about the same audio quality as Narrow banded FM, but without any static... That's one of the things about digital voice you always have clear reception...then you get nothing...there's no "picket fencing" like you normally hear with FM.

The other method is Echo-Link which is more less an internet node. Folks can use the Echo-link program to talk into a repeater or otherwise through a echo-link node.

There are other means, there's packet radio, Win-Link, PSK31, etc...

Thank you.

[Insertnamehere]

[Dan1980]

I am good today very hungry though