I missed everyone, ended up oversleeping by mistake on Saturday (which was the only day I had off), by the time I got up it wouldn't have been worth it to make the journey, imo.
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- 02 May 2023 18:23
- Forum: Fests and Flea Markets Archive
- Topic: NEAR-FestXXXIII will be held on April 28th and 29th 2023 not its traditional date and is optional this year
- Replies: 18
- Views: 29578
- 01 Oct 2022 11:51
- Forum: Fests and Flea Markets Archive
- Topic: NEAR-Fest XXXII Oct 14-15 Deerfield Fairgrounds NH
- Replies: 9
- Views: 11088
Re: NEAR-Fest XXXII Oct 14-15 Deerfield Fairgrounds NH
12 days! Which reminds me I need to get up to HRO and buy advance tickets. But anyways, I'll be there both days selling the club's SK stuff. Same place as usual by Relaxation Grove next to the Nut Net crew.
- 24 May 2022 17:30
- Forum: Fests and Flea Markets Archive
- Topic: Hamvention who is going? Xenia or BUST!!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14002
Re: Hamvention who is going? Xenia or BUST!!
Got back yesterday after spending the night in Columbus. Didn't buy anything, got sunburned. Overall, had a good time for my first Hamvention.
- 09 May 2022 17:16
- Forum: Fests and Flea Markets Archive
- Topic: Hamvention who is going? Xenia or BUST!!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 14002
Re: Hamvention who is going? Xenia or BUST!!
I'll be going. I'm flying out of BOS to Columbus with a few others, then renting and driving to Dayton/Xenia.
- 23 Jan 2022 23:16
- Forum: Scanning Equipment
- Topic: Good deal on brand-new Uniden BCD325P2 handheld phase II scanner
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2445
Re: Good deal on brand-new Uniden BCD325P2 handheld phase II scanner
"Sorry the product you tried to view is currently out of stock"
Man, that went fast.
Man, that went fast.
- 07 Dec 2021 13:26
- Forum: Scanning Equipment
- Topic: Freescan Software
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2585
Re: Freescan Software
The developer decided he didn't have time for it and gave it to the community as open source in 2019. If you downloaded from Sixspot, you have the last version that they released. I am unsure if anyone has continued development and if they have, I do not know if they have made their version availab...
- 15 Oct 2021 08:34
- Forum: Fests and Flea Markets Archive
- Topic: NEAR-Fest is not Optional!!! October 15th & 16th 2021
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10366
Re: NEAR-Fest is not Optional!!! October 15th & 16th 2021
Currently sitting in the entry line waiting for the gates to open.
- 12 Oct 2021 19:26
- Forum: Fests and Flea Markets Archive
- Topic: NEAR-Fest is not Optional!!! October 15th & 16th 2021
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10366
Re: NEAR-Fest is not Optional!!! October 15th & 16th 2021
I'll be there both days, I was able to get Friday off finally after something else at work fell through. Anyways, I'll most likely be over by Relaxation Grove with someone else from the NSRA club selling off some SK stuff for the club, though I'll probably take a walk around at some points during th...
- 07 Oct 2021 22:15
- Forum: Fests and Flea Markets Archive
- Topic: NEAR-Fest is not Optional!!! October 15th & 16th 2021
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10366
Re: NEAR-Fest is not Optional!!! October 15th & 16th 2021
Just bought my passes at HRO yesterday. Now to get Friday off somehow, because my original plan fell through.
- 11 Aug 2021 17:12
- Forum: Fests and Flea Markets Archive
- Topic: NEAR-Fest is not Optional!!! October 15th & 16th 2021
- Replies: 28
- Views: 10366
Re: NEAR-Fest is not Optional!!! October 15th & 16th 2021
Possibly. I went to NEAR-Fest XXVI (i.e. October 2019) and obviously, COVID put the kibosh on anything since. I'm pretty busy in October (with the Marathon and possibly the Regatta) but if I can find the days off (surprisingly, the dates in October are actually all filled at my job) I'll be there.
- 30 Dec 2020 13:55
- Forum: Area Amateur Radio
- Topic: FCC to possibly start charging for amateur licensing
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4312
- 29 Aug 2020 16:36
- Forum: Area Amateur Radio
- Topic: FCC to possibly start charging for amateur licensing
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4312
FCC to possibly start charging for amateur licensing
In 2018, Congress passed "Repack Airwaves Yielding Better Access for Users of Modern Services Act of 2018" or the "RAY BAUM’S Act of 2018" which per the ARRL, "requires that the FCC switch from a Congressionally-mandated fee structure to a cost-based system of assessment.&qu...
- 19 Mar 2020 15:17
- Forum: Live Scanner Feeds
- Topic: Boston Logan Airport Public Safety and Operations
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5319
Re: Boston Logan Airport Public Safety and Operations
So I've taken the feed offline, it's been having connectivity issues since I was using a Wi-Fi dongle for the connection to the internet and it seems to drop every few days. On top of that, a lot of the recordings wouldn't play properly and I have no idea how to fix that at the moment, maybe, someda...
- 16 Oct 2019 14:54
- Forum: Fests and Flea Markets Archive
- Topic: NEAR-Fest is not Optional!!! Oct 11th & 12th 2019
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6427
Re: NEAR-Fest is not Optional!!! Oct 11th & 12th 2019
My little wrap-up of NEAR-Fest on my blog with links to picture albums of both days.
Day 1 album
Day 2 album
Day 1 album
Day 2 album
- 10 Oct 2019 13:12
- Forum: Fests and Flea Markets Archive
- Topic: NEAR-Fest is not Optional!!! Oct 11th & 12th 2019
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6427
Re: NEAR-Fest is not Optional!!! Oct 11th & 12th 2019
I'll be there Friday and Saturday. Me and another ham from the NSRA are trying to offload some of our club's SK stash that we have split among a couple members, including myself.
- 05 Jul 2019 04:19
- Forum: New England Civil Aviation
- Topic: Virgin diversion
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6147
Virgin diversion
Alert 2 called last night for a fire on board Virgin Atlantic 138 (JFK-LHR) which diverted to BOS, caused by a battery of some sort (although scanner audio posted below made it sound like a wiring issue, although granted I didn't listen to the entirety of the audio.) Here's a compilation of audio s...
- 20 Jun 2019 19:19
- Forum: Area Amateur Radio
- Topic: Field Day 2019
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2623
Field Day 2019
What's everyone Field Day plans this year. I almost didn't get it off because I forgot about it and didn't take the days off at work right away during our annual vacation bid luckily there were one or two spots left. Anyways, I'll be with the NSRA (NS1RA) up in Topsfield (no Endicott Park this year ...
- 20 Jun 2019 19:10
- Forum: Area Trunked Radio
- Topic: Logan/MassPort TGs
- Replies: 27
- Views: 17081
Re: Logan/MassPort TGs
That deck had a ton of interesting info, many thanks. I wonder what caused the change. No problem. It's were I get a lot of my info about changes at BOS. As for the change, I know Massport's Director of Aviation Ed Freni made a proposal back in 2014-15 and the IAFF local that represents Massport Fi...
- 15 Jun 2019 10:07
- Forum: Area Trunked Radio
- Topic: Logan/MassPort TGs
- Replies: 27
- Views: 17081
Re: Logan/MassPort TGs
A bit off topic, as I understand it the Worcester Safety & Security guys are now Massport Fire as of this year. Does ORH still have any law enforcement now other than Troop F? It would just be Troop F, if WAS&S was converted to Massport Fire. I did overtime one day at ORH (I work at BOS), a...
- 14 Mar 2019 11:20
- Forum: Live Scanner Feeds
- Topic: Boston Logan Airport Public Safety and Operations
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5319
Re: Boston Logan Airport Public Safety and Operations
Neat! I've wanted something like this for a while now. The SDRs are capable of several MHz of bandwidth at once; I always wanted something that would let me monitor a bunch of it off one SDR. Looks like it does conventional as well! All of the main Boston PD channels are within about a half MHz of ...
- 26 Feb 2019 13:35
- Forum: Live Scanner Feeds
- Topic: Boston Logan Airport Public Safety and Operations
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5319
Boston Logan Airport Public Safety and Operations
I've setup a feed of Boston Logan's public safety (MSP Troop F and Massport Fire) and operations on OpenMHz. It is by no means perfect, since it's a bit of a kludge using 3 RTL-SDR dongles and the trunk-recorder software. The antennas currently are just 3 mag whip antennas that come with the dongles...
- 18 Feb 2019 20:48
- Forum: Live Scanner Feeds
- Topic: MSP on OpenMHz
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3563
Re: MSP on OpenMHz
There's this writeup over on RR.
- 18 Feb 2019 18:47
- Forum: Live Scanner Feeds
- Topic: MSP on OpenMHz
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3563
MSP on OpenMHz
So, someone has setup an OpenMHz feed of the MSP SmartNet system just recently. It wasn't there a few days ago. (Then again I only learned about the site a few days ago myself.) It's pulling what it receives from Site 8. OpenMHz is a little different from Broadcastify, in that it's essentially a set...
- 24 Jan 2018 13:56
- Forum: Website and Message Board Discussion
- Topic: E-Mail Addresses
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4913
- 02 Aug 2017 13:04
- Forum: Scanning Miscellaneous
- Topic: Where Have All The Hobbyists Gone?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7593
I've gotten back into the hobby after 10-15 year delay. I used to have analog Bearcat when I was a kid. Now, since I work at Logan, the bug bit and I decided I wanted to listen to Troop F, Massport Fire and Massport Ops because it pertains to my somewhat to my job at the airport. Granted, our repeat...