QSO Today with Ed Wilson N2XDD

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4/23/2022

Episode 397 - Ed Wilson - N2XDD

Ed Wilson, N2XDD, discovered radio as a kid with a gifted four channel public safety scanner. This led to an interest in radio, a career in law enforcement, and exposure to amateur radio. Now an active ham, Ed has become a booster of the M17 project, a native ham radio digital mode for VHF and above. NX2DD is my QSO Today.

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First License: Age 21, Technician, N2XDD
First Rig: Kenwood TM-241A VHF FM Mobile Radio

Terms
FDNY - Fire Department of New York
Firehouse Dispatcher
Vintage 5 Channel Crystal Controlled Scanner
Vintage 10 Channel Crystal Controlled Scanner
Bearcat 142 Scanner
Commodore 64 Computer
Bearcat 200 XLT Scanner
Ozone Park, Queens County
Commodore 128 Computer
Commodore 1541 Floppy Disk Drive
Mobile DJ Business
Criminal Justice Major
Narcotic Investigations
NYPD Officer
Long Island Sounds Amateur Radio Net
No Code Technician License
Suffolk County
New York City Marathon
ARES - Amateur Radio Emergency Service
Ring Doorbell
Emergency Coordinator, ARES
1995
TWA Flight 800 1996 Crash
Lock Picking Class for Law Enforcement
Mike Mollet, N2SRO
Kel Helmick N7XVB
Radio Fox Hunting
DMR Radio
TYT-MD2017 Dual Band Portable Radio
Radio DMR Code Plug
M17 Protocol
Wojciech Kaczmarski, SP5WWP creator of the M17
IRC - Internet Relay Chat
Open Source Software
Codec 2
AMBI+ Codec
DVSI Codec Technology
Jonathan Naylor G4KLX - my guest in Episode 230
MMDVM
Robert Riggs WX9O
M17-M17 Reflector
Tom Early, N7TAE
XLX Reflector System
M17 Discord Server
OrangePi Board
OpenRTX
TYT MD380 Dual Band Portable DMR/Analog
Droidstar Softphone Client
Iphone
Test Flight for iphone
OTG Cable
Zumspot
IRLP
CERT Team
POCSAG Paging
PiStar
Dapnet Program
FreeDV on HF
RFinder
Allstar Link Network
Skywarn
Ham Shack Hotline
Tape Measure Yagi
Hope Conference
2600 Hacker Magazine
Defcon, August, Las Vegas
Michelle Thompson, W5NYV
Suffolk Valley Amateur Radio Club
Tesla Science Center
Nikola Tesla

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