Tamiami Amateur Radio Club’s DMR repeater is located atop a 200’ tower at Paul Morris Industrial Park in Englewood. It’s roughly 10 air miles from downtown Venice. The repeater transmits on 444.1 MHz and listens for us 5 MHz higher with color code 1. If you are programming your radio to use our repeater, you …
IT’S OK TO BE A HAM Talk to the world without the Internet Help support county disaster communications needs Experiment with radio, digital, satellite, television, and microwave communication No morse code is required! You can just talk or type. Low entry cost. Start for as little as $100! No age restriction…..6 or 66 is OK …
Getting started with DMR is easy! Just follow the four steps below and you’ll be up and running in no time! 1. Check for DMR Coverage Verify that you are within the coverage area of a DMR repeater using the DMR repeater map. 2. Get a Subscriber ID All radios on ham radio DMR networks require …
Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) is an open international standard developed and ratified by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) in 2005. As a technology guiding body the DMR Association, also established in 2005, supports ETSI throughout the DMR standardization process and interoperability testing (IoP). DMR Association membership is open to any person or organization interested …
by lady ada OK so unlike many simpler & analog radios, you can’t just type in the frequencies you want to use into the keypad and off you go. Instead, you must run communication software that will set the repeaters you will be using. You can assign various repeaters to up to 16 different channels. You …
Member Frank Wroblewski, W2XYZ has assembled a great code plug for the TYT MD-380 DMR HT radios that is specific to the greater Venice area as well as the NYC regional area. His code plug includes local analog repeaters and a number of simplex frequencies for local use as well. Just edit to add your …
Networked DMR communications is a shared resource, with imposed latencies (delays) that require a high level of ETIQUETTE applied to radio operation. Operators must visualize that their communications may not only be heard by hundreds, or thousands of DMR users, but that resources are being tied up by communications and may deny other users access. …
Field Day is open to all amateurs in the areas covered by the ARRL/RAC Field Organizations and countries within IARU Region 2. DX stations residing in other regions may be contacted for credit, and may submit entries as check-logs. Date and Time Period: Field Day 2018 will be held June 23-24. Field Day is always the fourth …
The Florida QSO Party is scheduled for 1600Z April 28 to 2159 April 29, 2018. Operation is on phone or CW on the 40, 20, 15, and 10 meter bands using QRP, High, or Low power. Al, K0AL has again offered his ―cottage‖ station for TARC using QRP or Low power. Here’s another opportunity of us who are HOA-challenged to operate with a real antenna. Mark your …
The Tamiami ARC will be operating SE Station K4S from 13 to 15 April 2018 in support of the Venice Sharks Tooth Festival. This annual event in Venice, Florida, which is known as the sharks tooth capital of the world, is held near Caspersen Beach which is noted for its excellent yield of sharks teeth. …