{"id":102,"date":"2009-07-23T03:22:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T10:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vernon.mauery.com\/content\/?p=102"},"modified":"2009-07-23T03:22:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T10:22:10","slug":"oooh-shiny-new-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernon.mauery.com\/content\/2009\/07\/23\/oooh-shiny-new-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Oooh, shiny new toys"},"content":{"rendered":"

After much debate, research and saving of greenbacks, I finally went out and bought my first ham radio. I chose the Icom 92AD<\/a>. It didn’t take me much to see that the Icom handheld radios were a lot higher quality than the Yaesu radios. They also cost a bit more. The one I chose was one of the more expensive ones (surprise, surprise), but it should do all the things I want it to do. It is a dual-band radio that also has a digital voice\/D-STAR capability built in. I am not sure how much I will use the digital voice part, but D-STAR also allows for data to be transmitted along with the digital voice packets. I think that KK7DS<\/a>‘s D-RATS<\/a> stuff is really a great idea. Plus, Dan’s a bit of a Linux geek like myself, so I feel good supporting him.<\/p>\n

The radio as a handheld doesn’t really have a long range, but it will be great for the ARES<\/a> and CERT<\/a> activities that I would like to participate in. There is also a local LDS net that I can participate in as well. So it is a great start to get my radio feet wet.
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\nI have determined that one of the reasons that amateur radio is alluring to me is because it is an excuse for me to get back to my electronics roots. I finally have a reason to get a mutli-meter and a soldering iron. My first project is going to be an SWR meter<\/a> to make sure that my antenna and transmission line are all correctly tuned. If I plan on making my own antennas, and I do, then this is a very important piece of equipment. Later I plan on making a 6\/2\/440 collinear coaxial antenna, which will require some fancy assembly, and a center-fed zepp for HF, which should be much easier. I am thoroughly enjoying this new hobby. I just hope it doesn’t wring my wallet too much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After much debate, research and saving of greenbacks, I finally went out and bought my first ham radio. I chose the Icom 92AD. It didn’t take me much to see that the Icom handheld radios were a lot higher quality than the Yaesu radios. They also cost a bit more. The one I chose was … Continue reading Oooh, shiny new toys<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22,10],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbies","tag-amateur-radio","tag-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernon.mauery.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernon.mauery.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernon.mauery.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernon.mauery.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernon.mauery.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernon.mauery.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernon.mauery.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernon.mauery.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernon.mauery.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}