Do you need advance money for the radio?

The County Center is three blocks East of your hamwan transmitter, 27deg 56'54.01"N, 81deg 27'16.95"W.  If you look at the picture on your website labeled "Byron K4SIP and DB-404 antenna" the roof of the County Center is the bronze building in front of Byron.

The new EOC is at 27deg 58' 03.31"N and 82deg 20'44.89"W.

I plan on recommending this to the board at a third site, the Tampa Amateur Radio Club clubhouse. It's at 28deg01'05.80N and 82deg26'03.08W.  This might be the best place to do a demo/check.  We continuously have trouble with our internet access there.  We have a 100 ft tower in the back and a 40 ft in the front.

I would love to go but can't justify spending that much to attend a few forums that I might be interested in and understand.

73,
Bill







On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:27 AM, Bryan Fields <bryan@flscg.org> wrote:
On 9/8/16 12:04 AM, Bill Williams wrote:

> If you do this I will buy one.

Ok, I'll put you down for one.  Please note this is me personally doing this,
not an FSG sponsored thing.

> What would be my cost to be able to program the radio myself later when the
> repeaters change?  I assume a cable and software.

You'll need a cable and a windows XP or 7 machine with a serial port.  Some
serial adapters will work, others will not, just get a real serial port and be
done with it.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/260875360714

This cable will program both the CDM and the HT's in the Waris series.
Software is easy to install, it's not like the Maratrac radios :)

> On a completely different subject ...  How does one borrow your demo radio
> setup for the Hamwan?  I am looking at it for both the repeater and packet
> station on County Center and the RACES radio room at the new Hillsborough
> County EOC.

FSG has a few setups, I'd probably like to help you out with this, and show
you the ropes of it.  It's not the easiest thing to work with if you've never
seen it before.

We'd need to have at least a piece of braided/shielded cat 5 installed from
the roof and grounded to the area you want to interconnect the system to.

What are the coordinates of both locations or addresses and how high will be
be?  I can run a path profile from the site to you.

> On a third completely different subject ...  Are you or someone else in your
> FSGP organization interested in marketing at the Tampa Bay Hamfest?  I can
> give you a booth, a standard 10 ft x 10 ft with two 8 ft tables.  Also I have
> time available in my forum schedule so if you want to do one that can be
> done.  Let me know what you are thinking.

Awesome, we may be.  I'll talk with some of the others involved here (or they
can speak up here!).  I know we're trying to get a banner together for hamwan
at DCC.

Will you be at DCC next weekend?

73's
--
Bryan Fields, W9CR
Florida Simulcast Group, Inc.
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