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The short version is that I did a lot of planning and measuring before drilling some holes that couldn’t easily be patched to install the antenna and the radio.

Much of my decision-making was based on my theory (hope) that the aluminum shell on my truck would be a better counterpoise than an access door, even with a ground strap from the door to the cab of the truck. I recently finished my first HF mobile installation and while I learned a lot, I learned how much more I still have to learn. Take a minute and write/fax/call your local Representative and ask that this bill be brought out of committee.Īmateur radio, antenna, pennsylvania The full email, along with sample letters is here. We need to look like an 800Lb Gorilla who votes coming at these representatives to keep the special interest (PA State Association of Township Supervisors) from killing this legislation. Evans office and the staffer there commented that the Appropriations Committed was being “used” to kill the bill. After speaking to my local representative his office suggested that all interested parties contact Representative Evans urging him to bring the bill out of Committee and up to the house for a full vote. They’re sample letters to be sent to your local rep as well as Rep Dwight Evans, the Chair of the House Appropriations Committee. Please see the attached document from Joe, N3TTE. This from the Atlantic Division Director, Bill Edgar, N3LLR: I don’t follow PA state politics closely to understand why this is a partisan issue, but the claim is that Democrats in the house are trying to kill a bill that reflects current federal law regarding antenna regulation by sending it off to a subcommittee. (Note that this is under 10.5.8, I haven’t taken the Snow Leopard dive just yet.)įt-897,MacLoggerDX,microHAM,osx,USB

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Serial seems to be working pretty reliably at 38400. It really was just a matter of setting the internal jumpers, installing all the uHAM drivers, plugging in the USB cable and the rig cables, launching MLDX, setting some configs, and I’m chasing clusters and beacons with the best of them. For software, I finally got around to upgrading my aging copy of MacLoggerDX to the 5.x release which has full Cocoa support. It’s a pretty cool little unit that does everything over USB - only one cable to hook up to your computer! It’s actually supported by uHAM and therefore supported by OSX software authors. (And I now have TWO Rigblasters I need to sell.)Īfter the West Mountain fiasco, I broke down and spent 2x as much on a microHAM USB Interface III. I wasted a better part of a weekend trying to get it to work and got nowhere fast, and I like to think I know a thing or three about *nix, serial, and USB. In other words, if you can’t get it to work with a third party driver, they’re not going to help you. THE DRIVERS ARE SUPPLIED BY SiLabs THE MAKER OF THE CHIP”. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT US WITH ANY QUESTIONS OR PROBLEMS USING THESE DRIVERS. What I missed was this on a different page of their site: “NOTE: WEST MOUNTAIN RADIO DOES NOT OFFICIALLY SUPPORT MAC INSTALLATIONS.

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When that third party solution stopped working due to driver conflicts when I switched to my G5 desktop, I upgraded to the West Mountain Rigblaster Data Jack plug & play because the very first line of the description says, “USB interface support for Mac (OS9,10), Linux, Windows (98SE – Vista 64)!”. I used a West Mountain Rigrunner Nomic with my old Powerbook using a USBSerial adapter and it kinda worked most of the time.

When I say “%100 guaranteed” I mean an explicit statement that it the product is fully supported on the Mac by the manufacturer, not “it will work if you get drivers from a third party.”

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Do not buy anything that is not %100 guaranteed to work with Mac OSX by the manufacturer. I have a nicely functioning OSX FT-897 setup and thought I’d document things to make it easier for others wanting to do this.

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