I've come on a bit of an opportunity here with a good price on some 220 MHz Motorola CDM1550 <http://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/products/two-way-radios/analog-business-radios/discontinued/cdm1550-ls.html#tabproductinfo>'s for sale. They can be converted to the ham band and I'm willing to take care of this on the hardware/software side of things. These are really great mobile/base for the 220 band, much better in RF performance than any of the Chinese models on the market. They do require a simple programing cable and some software, but it's rather easy to use. The rest of the mod opens them up for 216-225 MHz, 255 channels, and 35W out. you get MDC, emergency response and QCII signaling as well. They come with a microphone. These were made for the NJ turnpike authority and have a GPS in them. I've never seen this option before, so I made a video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoXTOw0r0Og I'm gauging interest with this, if you want one let me know, they will be $100 per radio with local pickup. I'll have them programed with all the Tampa Bay 220 repeaters in them. 73s -- Bryan Fields, W9CR Florida Simulcast Group, Inc.
Bryan, If you do this I will buy one. What would be my cost to be able to program the radio myself later when the repeaters change? I assume a cable and software. 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. 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. 73, Bill Williams AG4QX President of The Florida Gulf Coast Amateur Radio Council. On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Bryan Fields <bryan@flscg.org> wrote:
I've come on a bit of an opportunity here with a good price on some 220 MHz Motorola CDM1550 <http://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_us/products/two-way-radios/analog-business-radios/discontinued/cdm1550-ls.html#tabproductinfo>'s for sale. They can be converted to the ham band and I'm willing to take care of this on the hardware/software side of things.
These are really great mobile/base for the 220 band, much better in RF performance than any of the Chinese models on the market. They do require a simple programing cable and some software, but it's rather easy to use. The rest of the mod opens them up for 216-225 MHz, 255 channels, and 35W out. you get MDC, emergency response and QCII signaling as well. They come with a microphone.
These were made for the NJ turnpike authority and have a GPS in them. I've never seen this option before, so I made a video of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoXTOw0r0Og
I'm gauging interest with this, if you want one let me know, they will be $100 per radio with local pickup. I'll have them programed with all the Tampa Bay 220 repeaters in them.
73s
-- Bryan Fields, W9CR Florida Simulcast Group, Inc.
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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.
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. _______________________________________________ FSG-public mailing list FSG-public@lists.keekles.org http://lists.keekles.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsg-public
On 9/8/16 1:03 AM, Bill Williams wrote:
Do you need advance money for the radio?
I'll contact you offlist about it.
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.
Are you sure 27 56' 54.01"N, 81 27' 16.95"W are the correct coordinates? This is in the middle of the state by lake wales. If it's 3 blocks away I'm sure we can hit it.
The new EOC is at 27deg 58' 03.31"N and 82deg 20'44.89"W.
This is 7.1 Miles and should give a -60 dBm signal off of our AP.
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've suggested this before but after being attacked on the list for offering I gave up. We'd be happy to get you setup with a client node. That's the idea of HamWAN, everyone can use it how they want to for their own projects. Lu's got a great project for it, and apparently Fios is not stable there :)
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.
$100 for a conference is a good price, but I do understand. I'm there for the one on one conversation. Presenting is fun, but I need to finish my slides! 73's -- Bryan Fields, W9CR Florida Simulcast Group, Inc.
OOPS, Fat fingered the degrees. The County Center is three blocks East of your hamwan transmitter, 27deg56'54.01"N, 82deg 27'16.95"W. Bill On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 1:29 AM, Bryan Fields <bryan@flscg.org> wrote:
On 9/8/16 1:03 AM, Bill Williams wrote:
Do you need advance money for the radio?
I'll contact you offlist about it.
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.
Are you sure 27 56' 54.01"N, 81 27' 16.95"W are the correct coordinates? This is in the middle of the state by lake wales.
If it's 3 blocks away I'm sure we can hit it.
The new EOC is at 27deg 58' 03.31"N and 82deg 20'44.89"W.
This is 7.1 Miles and should give a -60 dBm signal off of our AP.
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've suggested this before but after being attacked on the list for offering I gave up. We'd be happy to get you setup with a client node. That's the idea of HamWAN, everyone can use it how they want to for their own projects. Lu's got a great project for it, and apparently Fios is not stable there :)
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.
$100 for a conference is a good price, but I do understand. I'm there for the one on one conversation. Presenting is fun, but I need to finish my slides!
73's
-- Bryan Fields, W9CR Florida Simulcast Group, Inc. _______________________________________________ FSG-public mailing list FSG-public@lists.keekles.org http://lists.keekles.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsg-public
Sold - put my name on one of them... jack up the price a little and make it a fundraiser. Ray Baker vzn05ylg@verizon.net -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Fields <bryan@flscg.org> To: Florida Simulcast Group Public <FSG-public@lists.keekles.org> Sent: Wed, Sep 7, 2016 9:13 pm Subject: [FSG-public] 220 MHz CDM1550 I've come on a bit of an opportunity here with a good price on some 220 MHz Motorola CDM1550's for sale. They can be converted to the ham band and I'm willing to take care of this on the hardware/software side of things. These are really great mobile/base for the 220 band, much better in RF performance than any of the Chinese models on the market. They do require a simple programing cable and some software, but it's rather easy to use. The rest of the mod opens them up for 216-225 MHz, 255 channels, and 35W out. you get MDC, emergency response and QCII signaling as well. They come with a microphone. These were made for the NJ turnpike authority and have a GPS in them. I've never seen this option before, so I made a video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoXTOw0r0Og I'm gauging interest with this, if you want one let me know, they will be $100 per radio with local pickup. I'll have them programed with all the Tampa Bay 220 repeaters in them. 73s -- Bryan Fields, W9CR Florida Simulcast Group, Inc. _______________________________________________FSG-public mailing listFSG-public@lists.keekles.orghttp://lists.keekles.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fsg-public
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