Below is a map of locations I have personally checked out around Orange County which would be great spots for simplex communications. Try it sometime. Call CQ on 146.520!
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Belmont Park is located on the corner of Somerset Street and Via Escola in Orange, California. It is open from 5AM to 11PM. There are a few street parking spots.
This park could be used as a strategic point-to-point relay between this area and Coastal Peak Park in Newport Beach, California 15 miles due south.
This spot is also a good simplex relay station for other stations located in Orange, Tustin, Santa Ana, Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and Irvine. Below is a map of the line of sight coverage from Belmont Park. The actual coverage …
Below is a video demonstration of a fully mobile digital ham radio setup that can be operated anywhere within range of Wi-Fi or cellular networks. With this setup I can connect to any Wires-X room in the entire world. I can be indoors working plugged into AC and WiFi or fully portable using battery power and a Wi-Fi hotspot.
The laptop is handy for quickly finding and switching to rooms, but so long as you have a nearby Wires-X or System Fusion repeater connected to the Internet you could work with just the handheld radio.
Parts to buy:
- A radio
On Monday, March 16, 2020, my wife Julie and I will be the foxes hiding in a 93 square mile area of northeastern Orange County.
We will be within these boundaries:
- East of the 57 freeway.
- Generally South of Carbon Canyon Regional Park and Chino Hills State Park.
- West of the 241 and 261 toll roads.
- West of Santiago Oaks Regional Park and Irvine Regional Park.
- North of the 5 freeway.
We will begin transmitting tones on the input frequency of the OCRACES repeater which is 146.295 MHz (136.5 Hz PL), beginning at about 7:20 PM following the OCRACES weekly …
This video demonstrates a simple fox hunt transmitter using a Baofeng UV-5R and an MP3 player connected with a Baofeng APRS-K2 audio cable.
WinLink is a worldwide radio email service that uses radio pathways where the internet is not present. For a few months I have been trying different techniques to connect with my local WinLink RMS Gateways with varying success. I think I finally found the magic formula!
If you’ve been researching how to build an APRS iGate, surely you’ve seen quite a few articles on setting up a Raspberry PI or other Linux-based solution. But what if you don’t have a Raspberry PI laying around? What if you’re not a Linux geek? Well, this is your simple Windows-based solution. I’ll first provide the parts list and then get into the details.
| Item Needed | Description | Source |
| Base Station Antenna and Cabling | For receiving APRS audio | Local HAM shop, Home Depot, Internet |
| RTL-SDR USB Dongle | For connecting the antenna to the computer | Internet (Amazon) |
| AIRSPY SDR# | Your software defined |
A presentation I did for OCRACES regarding APRS Station Tracking and Messaging
Julie (KN6AOC) and I had a great time on Saturday, June 22, 2019 visiting several of the amateur field day club sites.
After several months of trying to figure out how to use a Baofeng as a TNC for things like APRS tracking, I finally found a method that works.