I think most people are interested in thunderstorms and weather, so here are a few links here if you’re interested. Here is a link to a newly created UK Thunderstorm and severe weather Facebook page,it was created as most UK storm sites on Facebook seem to be full of non Read More
It’s not always obvious when you get into DMR exactly what makes DMR so ‘special’ and why everyone is jumping on the bandwagon, compared to most other types of digital voice modes, one of the coolest things about DMR over most other forms of digital voice modes is TDMA. that’s Read More
We’re trying to diversify a little bit on MBARS here, Digital radio is just one tiny part of the whole electronics and hobby radio thing we’re all addicted to here, so we’re just mixing it up a little bit, as there’s not really enough happening in the DMR or digital Read More
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
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
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
Here ’round the Bay area, we don’t just stick with DMR/ MotoTrbo, In fact we’re interested in all commercial digital voice modes. If you’re into getting your ‘hands dirty’ and hacking on old Motorola digital gear for fun, here’s a glimpse of what we play with on dark sunday Read More