<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Cool. Thanks for the reply. I haven't owned a Callbook for 40 years -- I guess that I still could have looked up the call !! I appreciate the courtesy. </div><div><br></div><div>Dave<br>On Nov 11, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Wenlock Burton <<a href="mailto:wenlock.burton@hotmail.com">wenlock.burton@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Yes he is, </div><div><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">The four letter "f-call" is a foundation license.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">F-calls are limited to certain bands and QRP power levels. 10W</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Wenlock</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">VK3YWB<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On 12 Nov 2015, at 07:58, "<a href="mailto:dmdfacp@gmail.com">dmdfacp@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:dmdfacp@gmail.com">dmdfacp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>By chance, are you from a land down under, where women glow and men thunder ?? You callsign format is new to me. </div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div><div>K1SIW<br>On Nov 11, 2015, at 3:45 PM, Dave VK2FDJS <<a href="mailto:vk2fdjs@gmail.com">vk2fdjs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Off topic ... But I use "Mini PXT" on my iPhone and
iPad to reduce the size of images I'm sending. It can create a new
iMessage, or can save the reduced picture back to the camera roll (or
both). Seems to work well.</font></div>
<div><br>Regards, Dave VK2FDJS<br> </div>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com" href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">Discussion of CHIRP</a>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [chirp_users] inexpensive
Dual Band Mobile radios?</div>
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<div>The VV-898 can be had for $70, delivered, from eBay. It's offered at
$69.99 plus about $10 postage, but with the Make an Offer option. </div>
<div>I bought one for $69.99, delivered from the USA.
I've tried to send a screen capture, twice, but the image exceeds the message
size. <br><br>
<div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13pt">Sent from my iPhone </span></div>
<div>DSP</div></div>
<div><br>On Nov 11, 2015, at 4:00 AM, Dave Nathanson <<a href="mailto:KG6ZJO@nathanson.org">KG6ZJO@nathanson.org</a>>
wrote:<br><br></div>
<div>Thanks John, Ray, Shon & Mark. All helpful info.
<div>And I'm continually amazed at the deep resources at the miklor site!
:-) <br>
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<div>73,</div>
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<div style="FONT-FAMILY: monospace">On Nov 10, 2015, at 8:32 AM, Mark Waggoner
via chirp_users <<a href="mailto:chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com">chirp_users@intrepid.danplanet.com</a>>
wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" style="FONT-FAMILY: monospace">
<div style="FONT-FAMILY: monospace">Just a heads up, there is an updated
version of the Juntai radio coming out shortly. John Miklor has been beta
testing and says it's worth the wait. </div>
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<div>On Nov 10, 2015, at 7:45 AM, John LaMartina <<a href="mailto:johnla@usa.net">johnla@usa.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri, sans-serif">Dave,<br>Here is the
review of the VV898 series.<br></span></font><a href="http://www.miklor.com/COM/Review_VV898.php">http://www.miklor.com/COM/Review_VV898.php</a><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri, sans-serif"><br>as well as
the<br><a style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: purple" href="http://www.miklor.com/COM/Review_KT8900.php">http://www.miklor.com/COM/Review_KT8900.php</a><br>An
updated version of the KT8900 is to be released in about 5 days.<br>(no bugs
and more features)<br><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">The VV898 is
CHIRP compatible.<br>The KT8900 is not CHIRP compatible
yet.</span></b><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></font></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri, sans-serif">John<o:p></o:p></span></font></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, November 10, 2015 2:20
AM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Chirp Discussion<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[chirp_users] inexpensive Dual Band
Mobile radios?<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">[This is sort of
off-topic, but hinges on CHIRP support for the
radio] <o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></span></font> </div></div>
<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Howdy, I'd like to
get a recommendation for a dual band mobile radio for a new ham that will
(probably) not use it a whole lot. But it needs to work reliably enough, even
if not a lot of features. Actually less features is fine, that is just less
stuff to not understand & less to forget between uses!
:-) <o:p></o:p></span></font></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Mounting a UV5R in
a car doesn't seem like a good idea. Can anyone offer anything good or
bad about<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">any</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"inexpensive" mobile dual band ham
radio, including the <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Leixen VV-898 or Jetstream
JT270M</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(apparently
the same radio). It is one of the few cheap Mobile units I see on the list of
CHIRP supported radios. <o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><a style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: purple" href="http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home">http://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/Home</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Amazon reviews
seem fairly ok, especially for $99. I'm interested in a CHIRP-supported
radio. This is intended for an 1997 Jeep Cherokee, and a small radio is
probably a better match. It does need to be a dual
bander. <o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">If the cost gets
anywhere even near $200, I'd just recommend the Yaesu 7900 or Yaseu 8800. But
for this situation, I'm open to hearing about cheaper alternatives that I
might be able to recommend until this new ham grows into the
"sport". <o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Thanks for your
helpful council. <o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">73,<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Dave
Nathanson<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">KG6ZJO<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', serif; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">PS: if you know of
a better forum to ask about CHIRP compatible mobile radios, it's ok to shoot
me a pm or direct email about it. <o:p></o:p></span></font></div>
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