Yes, that’s a real photo of a real chinese electrolytic someone found during a repair. I’ve not been doing much radio lately, as life kind of got in the way and my interest in amateur radio is somewhat on the wane, but every now and again it’s good to raise your head from Read More
I thought this was reasonably interesting. http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2016/05/hf-radio-ale.html –Hax– All work, text and images © GB7MB
Just because i was a bit bored, i thought i’d trim our TAC-9 logo’s and see how they would look as a startup bmp for the MotoTrbo sets. The portable ones are a bit stretched out to fill the (little) screen the HTs have. They’re quite fetching i think. Download>> Read More
Yes, we will be at Blackpool next weekend, we may have a few items for sale, incuding some Motorola FM HTs and a (used but boxed) high power (48w) Motorola DM4600 with IMPRES mic amongst other bits and bobs, pop along and say Hi- Hax- All work, text and images Read More
Well, i’m in my third week in this new flat, and ever since i moved in, there has been this loud, irritating CHIRP echoing down the stairway, from up at the extreme top of the house, it’s from an old smoke alarm, and it’s been driving me nuts since i moved Read More
On Monday, you might notice a little UK wide confusion … to be more precise, the keepers of almost all UK DMR-MARC connected repeaters have decided to carry only UK Wide TG 235 on slot 1 and drop UK Wide TG235 on slot 2. GB7MB was an early adopter of Read More
We will be attending (have a stand) at the Blackpool Rally – where abouts we don’t know yet. When we do know, we will update the site here.
Here is a web link to out IRC chat server – clicking the link will bring you to a page where you see a box showing you some info, and we ask you to just change the 3rd entry down – where it says Username: guest- – just type something Read More
We offer a couple of codeplugs on MBARS here, as a sort of get-you-started thing, for anyone who gets a radio and it’s got one of those a poor or non-local codeplugs in. All of our codeplugs are checked for programming errors, but time constraints do not allow for us Read More
I’ve seen several MotoTrbo codeplugs come my way with multiple Talkgroups listed in the RX Group List. A recent Post by Karl on North West DMR reminded me of this stupid and pointless practice that i’ve seen, I’m mainly putting this out there for new users who start are starting Read More