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Re: FT-60R $174.95 at HRO!

John Murphy
 

From: FT-60@... [mailto:FT-60@...]
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 9:23 PM
To: FT-60@...
Subject: RE: [FT-60] Re: FT-60R $174.95 at HRO!

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I am new to the group and, in fact, don't have my license yet. I take the Technician's test in 8 days. I've been studying with HamTestOnline and found it an excellent learning experience. I'm a retired electrical engineer so at those parts of the test will be easy. After I receive my call letters, I plan to buy my first radio.

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I am in the market for a FT-60R so visited each of the sites noted to get the current price. This is what I found:

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So it looks like Ham Radio Outlet has the best price although plenty of other vendors were very close. What about customer service?

I think you will find HRO¡¯s customer service above reproach.? Of course it depends which HRO you use, but I have found Denver HRO, and San Diego HRO to be so.? HRO customer service on the phone has also been excellent.? Just my opeinion.

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Re: FT-60R $174.95 at HRO!

 

FT-60R is an excellent radio. All the features you need with none of the features you¡¯ll never need. Built like a tank.

You don¡¯t need your license to buy a radio, only to use it, but you probably already know that. The day I passed my Tech license back in 1986, I went immediately to my local HRO and bought my first handheld.

About once or twice a year, HRO has the FT-60R on sale, I¡¯ve seen it as low as $114.96 and I was a FOOL not to pick one up at that price!


Re: FT-60R $174.95 at HRO!

Tom Edmonds
 

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Take the General Test on the same day right after you take the Tech exam. A lot of the questions are the same and?you have a good chance of passing the General. The you can work HF too.
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Tom
K3CD
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 11:23 PM
Subject: RE: [FT-60] Re: FT-60R $174.95 at HRO!

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I am new to the group and, in fact, don't have my license yet. I take the Technician's test in 8 days. I've been studying with HamTestOnline and found it an excellent learning experience. I'm a retired electrical engineer so at those parts of the test will be easy. After I receive my call letters, I plan to buy my first radio.


I am in the market for a FT-60R so visited each of the sites noted to get the current price. This is what I found:


Amateur Electronic Supply
http://www.aaradio.com/index.asp???? $154.95???


Burghardt Radio Repair?
http://www.burghardt-amateur.com/? don't sell?


GigaParts?
http://www.gigaparts.com/radioindex.php? $154


Ham Radio Outlet
?http://www.hamradio.com/??? $150


R & L Electronics?
http://www.randl.com/shop/index.shtml? dead URL


Texas Towers?
http://www.texastowers.com/??? $159 + s/h


Universal Radio Inc?
http://www.Universal-radio.com/?? $153 +s/h


So it looks like Ham Radio Outlet has the best price although plenty of other vendors were very close. What about customer service?


Thanks in advance,


Rick




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Re: FT-60R $174.95 at HRO!

GLMontyWV
 

I bought mine from HRO, give them a call, customer service is fantastic.

On Jun 4, 2014 9:50 PM, "rgsparber.ya@... [FT-60]" <FT-60@...> wrote:

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I am new to the group and, in fact, don't have my license yet. I take the Technician's test in 8 days. I've been studying with HamTestOnline and found it an excellent learning experience. I'm a retired electrical engineer so at those parts of the test will be easy. After I receive my call letters, I plan to buy my first radio.


I am in the market for a FT-60R so visited each of the sites noted to get the current price. This is what I found:


Amateur Electronic Supply
???? $154.95???


Burghardt Radio Repair?
? don't sell?


GigaParts?
? $154


Ham Radio Outlet
???? $150


R & L Electronics?
? dead URL


Texas Towers?
??? $159 + s/h


Universal Radio Inc?
?? $153 +s/h


So it looks like Ham Radio Outlet has the best price although plenty of other vendors were very close. What about customer service?


Thanks in advance,


Rick


Re: FT-60R $174.95 at HRO!

Edward Maikranz
 

I have been dealing almost exclusively with Gigaparts over the last couple of years. Their combination of price, free shipping on many things and excellent customer service sold me on them.



On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:23 PM, rgsparber.ya@... [FT-60] <FT-60@...> wrote:
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I am new to the group and, in fact, don't have my license yet. I take the Technician's test in 8 days. I've been studying with HamTestOnline and found it an excellent learning experience. I'm a retired electrical engineer so at those parts of the test will be easy. After I receive my call letters, I plan to buy my first radio.


I am in the market for a FT-60R so visited each of the sites noted to get the current price. This is what I found:


Amateur Electronic Supply
???? $154.95???


Burghardt Radio Repair?
? don't sell?


GigaParts?
? $154


Ham Radio Outlet
???? $150


R & L Electronics?
? dead URL


Texas Towers?
??? $159 + s/h


Universal Radio Inc?
?? $153 +s/h


So it looks like Ham Radio Outlet has the best price although plenty of other vendors were very close. What about customer service?


Thanks in advance,


Rick




--
Ed Maikranz
KG5UN
Abilene, TX
Yaesu FT-100
BC785D
BC780XLT
PRO-2045
PRO-97, PRO-96
Yaesu FT60R


Re: FT-60R $174.95 at HRO!

 

I am new to the group and, in fact, don't have my license yet. I take the Technician's test in 8 days. I've been studying with HamTestOnline and found it an excellent learning experience. I'm a retired electrical engineer so at those parts of the test will be easy. After I receive my call letters, I plan to buy my first radio.


I am in the market for a FT-60R so visited each of the sites noted to get the current price. This is what I found:


Amateur Electronic Supply
http://www.aaradio.com/index.asp???? $154.95???


Burghardt Radio Repair?
http://www.burghardt-amateur.com/? don't sell?


GigaParts?
http://www.gigaparts.com/radioindex.php? $154


Ham Radio Outlet
?http://www.hamradio.com/??? $150


R & L Electronics?
http://www.randl.com/shop/index.shtml? dead URL


Texas Towers?
http://www.texastowers.com/??? $159 + s/h


Universal Radio Inc?
http://www.Universal-radio.com/?? $153 +s/h


So it looks like Ham Radio Outlet has the best price although plenty of other vendors were very close. What about customer service?


Thanks in advance,


Rick


Re: Listen and Talk back to IS S with FT-60 and 14¨®/43T-10WBP

 

BUT - We now have TWO astronauts aboard the ISS who have been trained on how
to program the Kenwood crossband repeater-capable radio that is on board! So stay
tuned for possible VERY EXCITING NEWS about that soon!


Re: Listen and Talk back to ISS with FT-60 and 14¨®/43T-10WBP

 

Please know that talking to an astronaut aboard the ISS is a very rare occurrence.

Many factors come into play ...

-For the most part, they work on GMT.
-You need to read the schedules for each involved country's space programs to see?
where the astronauts will be in the ISS at any given time.
-The astronauts have to have either free time or scheduled time to work ham radio.

It just does not occur too often. And for Scouting events when astronaut time IS?
scheduled for ham radio, if often can get chaotic ...

The events we conduct between schools and the ISS - the ARISS projects - take months?
to prepare and pull off. Mine in 2012 was described as " ... eleven months of preparation for a ten-
minute conversation ... " (grin)

BUT - When there is not a mission approaching nor leaving the ISS, its APRS digipeater system?
is up and bursting! And even if you are not set up to use APRS, it IS exciting to track the ISS and?
hear that signal!

Details at ...

Clint K6LCS


FT-60R and 146/43T-10WBP

 

Hi Everyone,

I am new to hobby.
I want to listen and Talk back to ISS with FT-60R Radio and 146/43T-10WBP Antenna. Is this possible ?
I have see Doug video, he uses VX-8DR. Do I need that expensive radio or can I listen and talk to ISS using FT-60R ?
Thanks for your help.

Best Regards,


Listen and Talk back to ISS with FT-60 and 14¨®/43T-10WBP

 

Hi,


I am new to hobby.

Is it possible, to?Listen and Talk back to ISS with FT-60 and 14¨®/43T-10WBP.

The video Doug has, he is using VX-8DR. Do I need VX-8DR ?

Thanks for your help.


Best Regards,

?


Re: satellite ops

Bill Boyer
 

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Haven't flown it yet, but the radio shield handles the ax-25 to serial (and back) translation, as well as driving a 2-line LCD if you need it. For an APRS beacon, the Arduino only has to read from the GPS and send certain packets to the radio shield. To receive APRS it has to get data from the shield and process it.?


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This message was delivered by flying monkeys!

On May 29, 2014, at 20:22, "gil gil@... [FT-60]" <FT-60@...> wrote:

Hey Bill Boyer:

I'd like to hear more about your balloon stuff. ?I had not seen the argent shield before -- how do you like it? ?My first balloon started with an arduino micro (lightweight uno), but after loading the libraries for the SD card logging and the adafruit gps lib, I had very little flash space for other stuff, so I put a mega in there. ?Then I lost the mega in the great LE-2 disaster when I lost the payload and slapped myself for not having a second independent tracker/gps/bat. ?I got another mega and found a circuit board short under the chip. ?Swapped it, flew again, and then used a payload based on a pic design. ?I am currently laying out a new pcb specifically for hab use, which will take either my pic design or an ard mega.?

Keep me posted on your balloon project.

Thx, ?gil

Sent from my portable teletype machine.


Re: satellite ops

gil
 

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Hey Bill Boyer:

I'd like to hear more about your balloon stuff. ?I had not seen the argent shield before -- how do you like it? ?My first balloon started with an arduino micro (lightweight uno), but after loading the libraries for the SD card logging and the adafruit gps lib, I had very little flash space for other stuff, so I put a mega in there. ?Then I lost the mega in the great LE-2 disaster when I lost the payload and slapped myself for not having a second independent tracker/gps/bat. ?I got another mega and found a circuit board short under the chip. ?Swapped it, flew again, and then used a payload based on a pic design. ?I am currently laying out a new pcb specifically for hab use, which will take either my pic design or an ard mega.?

Keep me posted on your balloon project.

Thx, ?gil

Sent from my portable teletype machine.


Re: Windows 8

 

sorry you had to upgrade to windows it is really suckey ie garbage pice of shit program so maney back doors for goverment stooges to get in iam still running a non windows program Itz hot


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On Wed, 5/28/14, Andy Rose ki6sep@... [FT-60] <FT-60@...> wrote:

Subject: Re: [FT-60] Windows 8
To: "FT-60@..." <FT-60@...>
Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2014, 3:59 PM


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I've got my
usb-to-serial adapters working under w8 with various ham
radio software packages. My serial programming cable is in
one of the boxes from our move but which one..? I can't
vouch that it will work but I'd be surprised if it
didn't.


Fill in some more details such as
whether your programming cable is usb or serial, which brand
chip set it uses, etc.

Andy


On Wed,
May 28, 2014 at 3:52 PM, hamuneggs@...
[FT-60] <FT-60@...>
wrote:
















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Much to my dismay I have had to move
from XP to Windows 8. I wound up with my mom's new HP
all in one with the AMD processor. I have the programming
cable from Valley enterprises and it worked great with my
MacBook and my XP machine, no luck on the new one. I need
some real help on this and any would be appreciated. Thanks
in advanced.
































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Re: Windows 8

GLMontyWV
 

What is Linux Mint?

Linux Mint is a free Linux-based operating system designed for use on desktop computers.?





On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:27 PM, 'kf5zzk@...' kf5zzk@... [FT-60] <FT-60@...> wrote:
?

Linux?? I prefer mint.



Re: Windows 8

 

Linux?? I prefer mint.



From: hamuneggs@... [FT-60] ;
To: ;
Subject: [FT-60] Windows 8
Sent: Wed, May 28, 2014 10:52:18 PM

?

Much to my dismay I have had to move from XP to Windows 8. I wound up with my mom's new HP all in one with the AMD processor. I have the programming cable from Valley enterprises and it worked great with my MacBook and my XP machine, no luck on the new one. I need some real help on this and any would be appreciated. Thanks in advanced.


Louisiana Freqs.

 

Anyone have files for Louisiana repeaters and nets?


Re: Windows 8

 

Thanks for the reply Andy. I believe it to be the FTDI chipset, not certain. I had another USB to Serial cable,?brand??name is Dynex DB-UBD89, that I used with an old laptop to plug in my old GPS.I also had a serial connector for my FT-60, put everything together and it worked straight "out of the box". I didn't have to download and install drivers or anything. It was great.

????? 73's Mike


New Mexico MegaLink

 

We tend to spend a lot of time in New Mexico. They have an interlinked system called the New Mexico Megalink. I can even receive some contacts here in southern Colorado. Enjoy


And by the way I have solved my problem of writing to and from the FT-60 using Windows 8. I had a different USB to Serial cable and a serial cable for the FT-60. Plugged everything in, no problems.

??? 73's Mike KN5P


Re: Windows 8

GLMontyWV
 

It will most likely work great with Linux as does Chirp.? Dual boot.

On May 28, 2014 6:52 PM, "hamuneggs@... [FT-60]" <FT-60@...> wrote:

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Much to my dismay I have had to move from XP to Windows 8. I wound up with my mom's new HP all in one with the AMD processor. I have the programming cable from Valley enterprises and it worked great with my MacBook and my XP machine, no luck on the new one. I need some real help on this and any would be appreciated. Thanks in advanced.


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