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==Current Events==<big>'''UPDATE:''' 9:39 AM Thursday, November 09, 2017</big> Professionals in certain fields, such as law enforcement, become trained in spotting liars, but the rest of us can still hone our detection sensors in everyday life. Lying takes more cognitive effort than being honest in general, because you have to work harder to keep your facts straight. This is where I continue to notice discrepancies in the claims of a local ham. Many people will embellish a bit when discussing their abilities and achievements, which is something we all learn though our struggle in everyday life trying to climb the ladder and get ahead. However, when a ham continues to make claims about his ability on an open repeater without the slightest knowledge or background to sound credible, it becomes a nuisance. In many venues the person would be called out within a short duration of their gross exaggeration, except on a specific local repeater where most of his fans seem clueless enough to not realize what's going on. Pay attention to the discrepancies, misuse of terminology, and struggling to answer specific questions and you will quickly be able to identify this individual. Perhaps if you are more gentle and diplomatic than I, you can help this person pull back the reins on the fabrications so that he can actually listen and learn something. Eventually people will figure him out and it would be better for him if the issue was corrected before it reaches critical mass. <big>'''UPDATE:''' 19:54 Sunday, January 08, 2017</big>KE5HSA was asking me about mounting a dual band antenna to a Jeep Wrangler. What I used I purchased from eBay. See Links:*[http://www.ebay.com/itm/CB-Antenna-MOUNTING-BRACKET-Drivers-Windshield-for-2007-2017-Jeep-JK-Wrangler-/271913047117?fits=Make%3AJeep&hash=item3f4f47d44d:g:peMAAOSw~gRVjRjC CB Antenna MOUNTING BRACKET Drivers Windshield ~ for 2007-2017 Jeep JK Wrangler]This seller offers both a drivers side and passenger side mount. I prefer the drivers side so that the ham antenna is not in close proximity to the broadcast radio antenna. However, the seller does offer a [http://www.ebay.com/itm/CB-Antenna-MOUNTING-BRACKET-Passenger-Windshield-for-2007-2017-Jeep-JK-Wrangler-/271913047453?fits=Make%3AJeep&hash=item3f4f47d59d:g:ne8AAOSwMmBVjRjp passenger side mount] as an option. You could go all hard core ham and stick one on both sides!<big>'''UPDATE:''' 12:37 AM Wednesday, January 04, 2017</big>Happy New Year! Today I updated the landing page for the web site at http://www.w0dbw.com/ and also the email system is now functional including the ability to send messages to gmail users.<big>'''UPDATE:''' 6:59 AM Friday, September 02, 2016</big>I've owned a D-Star radio for nearly a year now and never taken the time to try out the D-Star digital mode. The first step is registration of my ham callsign which gives me access to the D-Star network. *https://n7arr.dstargateway.org/Register.doThis is similar to the DMR DMARC registration with the exception that D-Star does not use the unique ID number, it is based entirely on the callsign, which makes sense since it too had to be unique. I am not a big fan on the digital modes, there are too many of them and none are completely open, as they should be. <big>'''UPDATE:''' 11:18 PM Saturday, August 27, 2016</big>The Hawaii QSO Party was taking place today, and there was much ado about a female operator on 14.228MHz. Conversations on a couple local repeaters involved who was able to get though the pileup on 20-meter to make contact with "Ann." I had to give it a go. Using my humble NVIS fence antenna which I made primarily for 80-meter I tuned it to 20 and starting putting out my call sign. It took about 20 minutes of trying and waiting my turn to achieve a successful QSO with kh6w in Hawaii. She was using a club / contest call which I may not have copied correctly: kh6lhn. I asked for her own call sign which I can now add to my log. kh6w Ann hawaii 10:51 PM Saturday, August 27, 2016 14.228<big>'''UPDATE:''' Thursday, August 11, 2016</big>My 220 promote the band activity includes the creation of 3 new wiki pages...* [[1.25 Meter Ham Radio Band]]* [[1.25 Meter Ham Radio Transceivers]]* [[1.25 Meter Ham Radio Antennas]]<big>'''UPDATE:''' Saturday, July 23, 2016</big>I have been very patient with NPPD (Nebraska Public Power District) on trying to get them to correct the high levels of RFI coming from the power lines in the alleyway behind my residence. The poles are not properly grounded, and their own contracted engineer advised them to correct the problem. Instead of going to work on the problem, the area supervisor "Mick" insists that grounding the poles is too expensive and that all the RFI is coming from the US Post Office 5 blocks away. He even denied what their own engineer had determined to be the problem. Do you think maybe it is time to contact the FCC?<big><big>NPPD - Noise Pollution & Powerful Discharges</big></big><big>Updates to the Plattsmouth ARC Web Site!</big> - Visit http://www.kb0smx.org and see whats new on our club web site.<big>'''UPDATE:''' Wednesday, June 29, 2016</big>You can see our Plattsmouth Amateur Radio Club Field Day results:* www.kb0smx.org - Plattsmouth Amateur Radio Club web site.'''UPDATE:''' Archived and Compressed older posts... '''UPDATE:''' Saturday, June 18, 2016Rich WA0ZQG announced 2m Simplex Freq cleared for field day use.* http://www.arrl.org/news/use-of-146-52-mhz-fm-simplex-frequency-cleared-for-arrl-contests'''UPDATE:''' Monday, June 13, 2016[[File:arfieldday.png]]<big>'''Field Day is June 25 - 26''', and the Plattsmouth Amateur...'''UPDATE:''' Tuesday, May 31, 2016Have you been listening to the PL tone debate on the 146.820 repeater? Don't be confused by what you are hearing. Read my memo on how a simple PL tone can benefit SWIARC repeater users without denying those without a tone board access to the repeater.<big>SHORT MEMO: [[W0DBW- Disambiguation on Repeater Tone Encoded Squelch and How PL Can Benefit SWIARC]]</big>If you understand CTCSS, then you will see the benefit in what I am suggesting.</big>'''UPDATE:''' Saturday, May 28, 2016According to the FCC [...] approval of my new vanity callsign which I will now be using, w0dbw. The vanity callsign uses my initials ...'''UPDATE:''' Wednesday, May 25, 2016Recently I purchased a second [[TYT TH-9800]] not because [...] However, the radio was not as described. See my youtube video: https://youtu.be/aZbn8fq5UBU Caveat Emptor! ''May 15, 2016'' - The TH-9000D is an FM 65W 1.25-Meter radio. WB0YLA is a repeater in Omaha on the band. 224.760 Mhz, -1600 offset, 146.2 PL. Open repeater located at 156th & Maple.''April 18, 2016'' - Installed Ringo antenna on top of the tower. [[Image:Onthetower416sm.jpg]]<BR><small>''Yeah, that's me wearing my ANSI Z359.1-2007, OSHA 1926.502 compliant safety gear'' </small>''March 18, 2016'' - I put the 70cm Yaga beam up on the tower today. Now it is much easier to hit the Omaha UHF repeaters. SWIARC is testing digital mode on their .82 repeater [...] Signal strength for me when from a 6+ down to 2 on the S-meter. It will be interesting [...]When I was transmitting on my old Kenwood TR-7400A today, using an omi on the roof several feet from the UHF yagi which is up on the tower, the Kenwood on full power wiped out the front-end on the UHF rig I was using, causing it to go nutty and shut itself off. It seemed to come out of it after being reset. I was a bit worried that it was toast. Reflected signal is low coming in the cable on the Kenwood, however, there is a lot of RF in the shack on full power transmit. The radio itself is a strong emitter of RF coming out of the case, more so than the newer radios. I am going to start setting my coffee cup on the Kenwood when I use it, so the stray RF keeps the coffee warm.I have been studying and experimenting more with cross-band repeat[...]. Updates to how it works and what is permissible by the FCC can be read on the wiki page about [[Ham Radio Cross Band Repeater]]. Maybe I will discuss [...].<big>In my area our local ham group, the Plattsmouth Amateur Radio Club, we have been experimenting with DMR and SDR. The club president, KB0OGO, did a demonstration of SDR with his new SDRplay receiver. KI0PY has demonstrated [[MotoTRBO]] with a Motorola branded HT while I have recently obtained the [[Tytera MD-380]].I've been building antennas, with my most recent endeavor to build a 6-meter "squalo" horizontally polarized antenna. There is a local 6-meter [...].</big>