New England Mod & Meetup Thread: May 17 at Jared’s!!

I had a blown tm-281 which I loved but took a shit in my accident

 

Hope for a speedy recovery

 

Jeez. Sorry to hear. Hope she heals well and soon. You guys alright?

You familiar with the area? Any recs?

 

She’s doing well considering. I do know the area, I’d recommend the ovens mouth hike, bets fish fry and farm 23. The brewery is cool, and even has RV campsites. Oh and the botanical gardens are nice. Moms actually volunteers there.

 

Hello, I am also curious about cutting up tacos. And even putting them back together. Are there any plans for a mod day in the near future? Or, are any of you wishing you knew someone who desires assistance with installing the suspension parts she's had under her couch for the last 4.5 years (I live in a tiny apartment, gimme a break!)?

 

We are planning one for my house soon in Wilbraham MA.....about a little over an hour away from you, but we Have big meets there. We can help you out with what you need. I will be speaking with most of our core mod group tomorrow and we will let you know in this thread asap

 

Welcome aboard


Sometimes all we need is an excuse

 

Can relate, I had a bike in my living room for a year or so before we bought a house. Even in my small house, storage space requires some creativity

 

awesome, thank you!

 

Welcome aboard
There's still time to turn back

 

Depends how intense you want to get. I have a baofeng UV5R and with it, I have an extended battery + a usb charger for that battery, and I have external antenna and mics. That thing will throw. I use it as a setup for the marathon volunteering.

If you're just looking for simplex, I would lower your budget for the radio itself, and focus more on something with higher power, and an external mag/roof antenna, I had an antenna with a lip mount off my roof rack, and a whip, that thing for 6-7 miles range for like 50$. If you're looking for APRS/DMR/etc, then you start to "need" that budget. But honestly, I'd look to step down the budget and not have all the extra bells and whistles if you won't use them. More things that can go wrong and brick the thing.

As shenanigans as it sounds, the UV5R and 8B are both used by so many people, they have a TON of support articles and accessories. If I had a radioddity, I wouldn't be able to find an external battery for 5$ for it, delivered tomorrow. My old setup was nice because it was completely modular and not hard wired to the truck, I could take it out and put it in my wifes camry if needed. Now I have a hard wired radio unit just because I wanted to trim it up a bit. I have the baofeng still for walking around with.

Radioddity is a pretty okay setup, this one is one of my favorites for HTs. It does a TON of stuff, so if you're trying to toy around with learning how to do X, Y, and Z, you're not limited by not being able to with this one.

$220 Radioddity GD-88 DMR & Analog 7W Handheld Radio, VHF UHF Dual Band Ham Two Way Radio, with GPS/APRS, Cross-Band Repeater, SFR, 300K Contacts

https://www.amazon.com/Radioddity-H...prefix=handheld+ham+radio+aprs,aps,140&sr=8-1

I like anytone because they tend to support letting CHIRP do whatever you want.

$335 AnyTone AT-D878UVII Plus – Dual Band DMR/Analog 7W VHF, 6W UHF Handheld Radio w/FREE $97 Training Course – Bluetooth PTT, Digital/Analog APRS RX & TX - 500K Contacts Plus Great Support from BridgeCom!

https://www.amazon.com/AnyTone-AT-D...prefix=handheld+ham+radio+aprs,aps,140&sr=8-5


On the HT realm, you won't see much about 8-10W,

 

I was going to say keep me posted, my full-up summer has sort of tapered off and allows some freedom, especially as we get into fall instead.

But then I realized I am going to be there tomorrow.....

 

Yep, need to lock in a date, as I'm tripping over stuff too... and today is the first day I've had to myself(other than a few support calls this morning) in weeks.

We have an excuse. It's the schedule that's been sucking.

 

Thanks!!!

 

@Shoeby we sometimes get a lot of people to help. Here are some previous pics of the meets over my house:

 

Thank God you don't live in an HOA neighborhood

 

Never would I ever......HOA's are the freaking devil incarnate. They breed "Karen's " and have zero benefit to anyone except for themselves.

 

Super White Tacoma did a great job installing a Viper alarm kit on my Tacoma.
Thank you Harry !

 

@super_white Harry is the man!!!!

 

You're the one to say, lol.

I should probably get on my LCAs...