Friday, November 4, 2011

On the Air!

Ok, through a little bit of trial and error, I actually checked into the Southwest Wake ARC Rag Chew tonight on the 145.21 repeater.  Busy session, with several dozen calls checking in.  I had to try three times before I got a call in, tweaking my settings each time, until I finally discovered which one of the parameters was the TONE required (82.5) to trigger the repeater.  Of course, now that I know, I'll be able to get right on next time.

No, my problems are not over.  I still haven't figured out how to set the channels by name, or program in more than one at a time.  But I'm getting there.  Hope to actually be able to talk intelligently to someone with the same radio next time I get to a meeting.

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