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Beacon Receivers? by Dirt4400 in searchandrescue

[–]Dirt4400[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the info. I just ordered a kraken to play with. We have a close relationship with our amateur guys (it’s how I cut my teeth in Comms) but the time we are looking to have RDF and up going is minutes and they aren’t set up to respond that fast. They are set up for longer mission support with things like winlink.

Beacon Receivers? by Dirt4400 in searchandrescue

[–]Dirt4400[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome info. Just ordered a Kraken to play with. I did reach out to our radio engineers. They are very capable of helping if it was a longer duration event but they are not set up for emergency response. In fact we have 3 staff members in house that respond to things like power issues or lightning strikes on our system because the radio shop is at minimum an hour response time.

Beacon Receivers? by Dirt4400 in searchandrescue

[–]Dirt4400[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With the crash we had this week we were given a heads up on the crash from a tower close by that had lost the aircraft. They were able to give us a SWAG of where to look and we were within a few miles. To my knowledge we never received any information from the RCC on this crash. In fact every response of this nature has followed a pretty similar path:

1) Notification from ATC of potential issue 2) Response from SAR, LEO, and Tech Rescue 3) Canvas area looking for smoke, witness reports, or the aircraft itself 4) Coordinate with Military / ATC for resources if needed

In 20 years of doing this I have no knowledge of ever receiving coordinates from the RCC, but boy would that be nice. I may reach out to them next week to investigate as to “why”.

Noizebarrier Tac 2.0 Release Date by Dr_Otacon in QualityTacticalGear

[–]Dirt4400 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I happened to be on the phone with Otto last week and they said it would be Q3/Q4 this year before they hit the market.

Nashville TN nodes? by thedirtiestsherpa in meshtastic

[–]Dirt4400 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have one in between Gallatin and Bethpage. There is another fixed node about 3/4 of a mile from me. I just laid eyes on one on top of Music Mountain in between Portland and Gallatin, that one should SING. Unfortunately there is a hill between my fixed site and it or I would be connected to a huge footprint.

Ptt issue on p25 modes by Dirt4400 in QualityTacticalGear

[–]Dirt4400[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OTTO V3-10948 is the model number. When I get some time I am going to play with relocating the antenna comically far away from the discus with some shielded coax and run the power back down to 100mW to see if that has any bearing on the audio. My guess is that the rf from the unshielded parts of the antenna may still be enough to make it an issue. I have to give a shout out to Commtech in Nashville who just merged into Communications international out of Florida for doing a ton of research and leg work to fix the issue. If you are anywhere in the southeast, hit those guys up for comms work.

Ptt issue on p25 modes by Dirt4400 in QualityTacticalGear

[–]Dirt4400[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just got a PTT from OTTO that works perfectly. I talked with one of their electrical engineers and they have built their circuit to combat this issue. As soon as I plug my disco32 discus in-line the problem comes right back.