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Here's a link to the site: http://www.echolink.org/

Also, the online setup is really intended for HF (High Freq)

You might be able to get away with a 2m di-pole or a 2m mobile antenna (black) on the balcony, I've used hamsticks (VHF 2m) from a hotel balcony many times without anyone seeing it... For a handheld, look into a VX-6r from Yaesu, they go for under $200 used online: 2M/70CM Dual Band HT 5 Watts 220Mhz 1.5W Submersible JIS7 Received 504kHz-998.99MHz (Cell Blocked) 1500mAh Li-Ion Battery CW Trainer & More! The receive covers the AM shortwave bands which is nice to have for news, etc.

Hey, that might just work You might just look a little crazy with a desktop and 100+ feet of extension cord

Do you have a balcony? If so antenna options exist for you.

Look for a used DC power supply on ebay, you will not be transmitting just powering it on so a 3-5 AMP supply should be enough to program it with. Connect the rig to the DC power supply (might consider getting a second power cable if the power cable you have now is hard wired/not easy to remove) and hook it up to the desktop, load the software and you can program it Here is a used Astron power supply: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ASTRON-RS-4A-Linear-13-8-Volt-DC-3-Amp-IC-Regulated-Power-Supply-/271583616969?pt=US_Radio_Comm_Device_Power_Supplies&hash=item3f3ba51fc9

You can, but if you do not have a laptop you will need a DC power supply to power the radio with for programming. If you have a laptop, load up the software and bring it out to your car/truck.

I wish....I wish.... Damn NJSP must have a nice collection

Nice radio Yaesu (Vertex Standard) has been around for years, good quality equipment Do you have a programming cable for it? if not: http://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-010325 That cable is worth the money, saves you from having to enter the freq's and tones manually.

Could be, the BA page by the former employees is interesting to say the least...BA hasn't returned calls/texts from the employees and the owner is MIA with not a single word being said. You would think BA would release a statement?

Yea, I wonder how the remodeling went?

Good luck in NJ getting a MG approved, but if I had NFA $$$ to burn and lived in PA it would be a HK-21E with registered pack or registered push pin HK 53 or G3

They are neat, someone on GunBroker has one if you have $4K+ to burn: http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=437332008

Typical R&R That's how you lose business, you wanted a $450 shotgun that fit your needs not his needs and since it wasn't something high end he basically tells you to stop wasting his time...wow

I don't feel so bad now when the lugs are stuck

What rig are you using?

Dick would be Richard, he sold it to a guy named Joe (that's prob. who you spoke to) and it went down hill. Sad, it was a nice little shop that did great work just a few blocks from me until it changed ownership. Thanks for the info, if I need work done of a rifle or shotgun I'll give P&K a call

LOL, I remember them shaking my roof/windows so bad in the late 90's/early 2000's I thought the house was gonna come apart (Upper Township, near the barracks)

Rent a NJSP helicopter for a few hours?

Nice vid of the S76

Someone posted a pic on the BA facebook page showing the door with no letter in it anymore, So....no letter from the NJ Div of Tax anymore must mean they sorted it out and are "upgrading" the place or...who knows at this point???

Gotta ask, have you ever worked with HF equipment on trans oceanic flights? here are some I remember off the top of my head, may no longer be in use I'll have to give it a listen this week when I have some time: 2.887 3.455 5.550 6.577

With the amount of hours he has logged, I will take his word that 121.5 is not monitored like it once was. Some commercial pilots still monitor it, most don't. If I ever needed to TX on the air band in an emergency, I would *again* spin the VFO and turn the squelch up and listen for any activity and send the call...

I only did around 15 hours (in a 172), had dual stacks and the second was always on 121.5, this was in Jamaica, W.I. not in the US but always had that on the stack this was '09-10

That's interesting, I know of a few commercial carriers out of PHL and one out of ACY that keep 121.5 on the stack. In the event of a life or death emergency, I would spin the VFO and see what is active and make a distress call if 121.5 failed. I also have all VHF USCG freq. in the mobile radios and perform a monthly radio check with someone at USCG in Cape May, also have all VHF non-trunked police and fire freq's for Atlantic and other counties in the truck radio (Motorola Spectra). The cars have a limited 32 channel MaxTrac with mostly Ham and Maritime freq's and of course NOAA freq's. The good thing is the FCC has ruled that if you are in a true emergency: