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[joshua besneatte <besneatte@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for all replies and advice! I have added the local repeaters and I
can hear people talking sometimes but I haven't got any responses to my
CQs... I am going to put up an antenna ( I have just been trying in the car
from inside a bunch of tree cover). W6EK is the group in my area and I will
be joining them at their next meeting.

I have been monitoring 144.39 APRS station and I am hearing data streams.
Working on getting fldigi to decode them now ( something to do with linbpq
AKA bpq32 I believe??)

As far as my modem goes, I have built a usb audio modem using an EasyDigi
isolation board from ebay.
The usb audio card resets or crashes when I try to transmit on high power
(baufeng UV5-r) but on low power it is OK. I tried to fix it by making a
Faraday cage with some metal screen and wrapping my modem set up in that,
but a 5w transmission still crashes it for some reason. I have ordered some
ferrite chokes to see if that helps.

-ww6vhh

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Jordan Rubin <delorean1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I don't expect that you will find much to do with FLDIGI on 2 meters.
> Most if any digital over 2M with regard to digital would be SSB and not FM.
>    Ive not heard any good amount of digital in either mode on either
> modulation.
>
> You should consider discovering 2 meter repeaters in your area and joining
> a local club.   with regard to BBS's (if you can still find one), you will
> need more equipment such as a packet radio modem as an added interface to
> your computer.   There are software modems like dire wolf and soundmodem,
> these utilities assume the user already has ax25/packet experiance.
>
>
> sorry I couldn't be more of a help.
>
>
> regards,
>
>
> J
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 9:10 PM, joshua besneatte <besneatte@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Just got my callsign! KK6VHH
>>
>> I am in the placer county area with a 2 meter radio... anyone else here
>> in my area?
>>
>> What should I do next? Can I get on a BBS or something? I have been
>> playing with fldigi, but I am not really sure what I am even supposed to be
>> doing with that program.
>>
>> 73 - KK6VHH
>>
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