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K0MKT

12/5/2014

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Episode 019 - Dean Mertz - K0MKT

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Join Eric, 4Z1UG in his QSO Today with Dean Mertz, K0MKT.  Dean and Eric have been friends for almost 40 years after meeting at the local ham radio club, in Southern California.  While their lives have taken them around the World, there is always an opportunity, a few times a year, to catch up on ham radio projects and personal lives. As a software engineer and hardware tinkerer, Dean always has an inspiring project to discuss.  This time its a web based audio adjustment meter, using the Beaglebone Black, for the local DMR mobile radio system.

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First Licensed: WA6MKT, 1975

First Rig: Icom IC-22A

Current Rig: Elecraft K3, assorted mobile radios on VHF and UHF, and DMR

Elmers: 
Pete Juul, W6PJ
Bill McNally, N6MN 
Joseph Moel, K0OV - expert in transmitter hunting

Early Activities: 
Newport Amateur Radio Society, W6MRO - Founded in the 1950s and met in Newport Beach on the Balboa Peninsula.  Closed in 1976 when the club lost is meeting room at the Parks and Recreation Center on Balboa Blvd. 

Orange County Transmitter Hunts every Saturday evening on two meters. Boundries were LA, Orange, and Riverside Counties in Southern California. Here is a Southern California resource for transmitter hunting. 

Current Club:
Rocky Mountain Ham Radio
  • Teach, learn, operate, support
  • Rocky Mountain Ham University

Current Project: 
Web based DMR level meter using the Beaglebone Black for signal processing. 

DMR Radio - here is a resource to the Digital Voice Amateur Radio Association for an introduction to digital voice. 

10 ghz microwave - here is an introduction by Gordon West, WB6NOA

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dewaine gillie link
12/6/2014 01:25:02 pm

thinking out loud, if someone had a android phone or other cellphone that did wifi would they sell it and at what price, or one that a person could gift and be blessed for gifting it. that bring a whole new meaning to ham radio. in my view. and yes projects dealing with mesh networking. what about sound cards emuilating broadband networking. like it is for psk 31 it use no tnc but computer sound cards. or that maybe packet. or am i out to lunch. tell me if i am.

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