W5PKH
I got into ham radio because someone got me a Baefeng radio for Christmas and I figured I've always been interested in ham and then all of a sudden I could HEAR ham it was more exciting and interesting. So I got my license..
I decided I wanted to know more about digital and as I looked around I could only find YSF repeaters in my area so my first digital was a FTM100DR for the truck. Then the next Christmas they had a great sale on the FT2DR so that was my Christmas present to myself.
Still having difficultly reaching the digital repeater from my house I went and got me a JumboSpot.and that opened up a WHOLE new world.
Next came a Hamvention where they held a mini-class on DMR. Yep, you guessed it. I decided I wanted one. So I found a reasonably priced one at the show and it came home with me. Since my JumboSpot does YSF and DMR I'm all set and didn't have to get anything else.
But I must say, learning DMR was an adventure. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of centralized information. I found multiple YouTube videos but only found a couple that were really helpful. I still find some of the things confusing but I'm muddling along.
I'm a member of TEAC as well as ARES district 14.
Any more questions or comments I can be reached at:
E-mail Me: pete AT w5pkh.com
DMR ID: 3162621
And when I'm on YSF I'm usually in the Texas Nexus room (FCS00334) via Hotspot
I decided I wanted to know more about digital and as I looked around I could only find YSF repeaters in my area so my first digital was a FTM100DR for the truck. Then the next Christmas they had a great sale on the FT2DR so that was my Christmas present to myself.
Still having difficultly reaching the digital repeater from my house I went and got me a JumboSpot.and that opened up a WHOLE new world.
Next came a Hamvention where they held a mini-class on DMR. Yep, you guessed it. I decided I wanted one. So I found a reasonably priced one at the show and it came home with me. Since my JumboSpot does YSF and DMR I'm all set and didn't have to get anything else.
But I must say, learning DMR was an adventure. There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of centralized information. I found multiple YouTube videos but only found a couple that were really helpful. I still find some of the things confusing but I'm muddling along.
I'm a member of TEAC as well as ARES district 14.
Any more questions or comments I can be reached at:
E-mail Me: pete AT w5pkh.com
DMR ID: 3162621
And when I'm on YSF I'm usually in the Texas Nexus room (FCS00334) via Hotspot
My YSF radio I use
Click picture see more info - it will bring you to Gigaparts
Click picture see more info - it will bring you to Gigaparts
My current DMR radio.. TYT MD2017. Yep it's an older radio but it works great.
Click picture for more info - link goes to Gigaparts.
Click picture for more info - link goes to Gigaparts.
