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The Ham Radio two point zero audio
podcast rip. Thank you for downloading and

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listening to this podcast. So basically
what I do is I take all the

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audio clips out of my videos and
upload them to spreaker, and then from

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there they're spread out to iTunes and
SoundCloud and now Amazon Audible as well.

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But I want to welcome you and
thank you for joining the audio section of

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this series on Ham Radio. I
hope you enjoy it, and I would

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appreciate you leaving us a comment or
a review on whatever podcast service you're listening

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from. Thank you in seventy three. I hope you enjoy it. So

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Baofang is entering the cyberpunk twenty seventy
seven universe. It had to be a

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Baofang, didn't it It just it
had to be a Fang. I wanted

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to take a look at this because, quite frankly, I kind of want

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one of these. Hackaday has some
really cool articles about just kind of all

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kinds of technology stuff, and this
one really especially caught my eye because it

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has to do with a Boo fang
and I really kind of have to take

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issue with a little little bit of
this article, but I mean he's mostly

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right. Bring a Balfang into the
Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven universe. I don't

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know what Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven is. I assume it's some sort of game,

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but I don't really know because I
don't keep I'm not I don't keep

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up with that industry. I guess
I don't know. You gotta love the

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aesthetics of a dystopian cyberpunk video games. See I was writing a video game.

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I actually read this part of Y
where all the technology looks like it's

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cabbled together from cast off bits of
the old world's remains. Kudos to those

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who attempt to create these virtual props
and bring him into the world WLD.

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But I high us praise goes to
those who not only make a game realistic

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version of a prop, but actually
can make it work. Here we go,

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okay, they can do this to
a bow. I want one.

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Take the Nakoda manufacturing radio from Cyberpunk
twenty seventy seven. Taylor took one,

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Taylor, I guess the guy who
who did this, I guess took one

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look at that and knew it would
be a perfect vessel for a Baufang Uvy

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five R. The dual band transceiver
that amateur radio operators love to hate.

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Now there's some true to that.
There is some true to the fact that

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ham radio operators do love to hate
the Baufang. Let me tell you why

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I don't hate the Baofang. Okay, I'm gonna get to this right now,

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but stay tuned. I'm gonna tell
you want my actual thoughts on the

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Baofang UVY five R. Specifically,
the idea is to strip the PCB out

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of a Boufang. No worries.
It costs twenty five bucks this model and

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install it with a game accurate three
D printed case. This is by far

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from just case mod. The goal
is to replace the radio's original controls with

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something closer to what's endgame. To
that end, they're spinning up an interface

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to the stock radio's keypad using some
seventy four hundred series bilateral analog switches.

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I don't know what that is.
Somebody can explain that to me in the

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comments. Hook to the keypad contacts
controlled by a Mini Mega Mini Mega twenty

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five sixty micro controller. The interface
is able to send macros and imitate the

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keypress is necessary to change frequencies and
control the radio settings, plus display the

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results on the yellow OLED screen that
seems to be a dead ringer for the

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endgame display. Probably is a guy
who wrote the game, probably has a

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bowfang like everybody else does. The
video below shows some early stages testing the

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device interface, while very much still
working projects. We've been following Taylor's project

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for a week or so and he's
really gaining some ground. We've encouraged him

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to enter this on Cyberbunk Challenge.
We got it going on so far.

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It may not have much debt going
for it, but sure Dole's give a

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lot of cipher Okay, all right, whatever that means. This is so

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they're just basically hacking the heck out
of a bowfang here. This is pretty

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cool. Is this is pretty slick? You know, if you ever wanted

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to make your own platform and stuff
to do something like this, you might

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consider checking out pcbway dot com.
Pcbway brings project ideas to life a lot

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of times. They do preprinted PCB
circuit boards, they do injection molding,

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professional three D printing, and a
multitude of other things. They are a

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sponsor of this video, so check
out the links in the description. Blow

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for any ideas you want to bring
to life. Thank you pcbay dot com

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for supporting this chimnel. He's actually
in the hamband right there two twenty one

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dot FO three No two two two
to two two five. He's right below

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the ham band. Two two two
to two two five is the one point

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two five meter band, so he's
right below the hand band and then the

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bottom bands on the five hundred megahurts
band, which is some commercial band.

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I think they used to have like
guitar receivers and wireless guitar controllers and transmitters

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and receivers around the five hundred to
five hundred and thirty megahurts range. I'm

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not sure if they still do that
or not, but this is cool.

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I'll put a link to this video
in the description. Blow but I thought

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this was a really cool thing.
I would love to have one of these.

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So I'm gonna try to email this
guy and see if maybe I can

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bring him on the show or get
him to build me one, or get

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him to tell me how to build
one. We'll see what happens from there.

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So the Balfang UV five R and
I've said this this is not new.

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I've said this in many videos in
the past. Okay, the Balfang

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UV five hor is an excellent springboard
into amateur radio. When I got my

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first license in the mid nineties,
the cheapest radio I was in college.

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I didn't have any money. The
cheapest radio I could find was a radio

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shack ht X two O two.
It was about one hundred and ninety bucks

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one hundred and eighty nine ninety five. It was huge. It was this

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tall. I still have it.
Actually, I'm gonna do some actually,

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you know what, it's right here. This is not the one that I

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bought new for myself in nineteen ninety
four. I still have that one around

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here somewhere. This is when I
picked up at Orlando ham Caation last year

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because it was in perfect working order. There you go, right there.

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So that's how big it is.
It's freaking huge. It's heavy. It

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does single band two meter only from
one forty four to one forty eight,

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no receive outside of that at all. It does five watts. It's got

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a huge battery double a battery pack
for it option, and it's got this

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This antenna itself is taller than the
UV five hour by itself. But that's

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one hundred and ninety bucks for single
band two meter only, and now you

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can get a Balfang duel band with
one hundred and twenty eight channels for twenty

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five to thirty bucks on Amazon.
The only problem I have, and it's

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not really a problem, the only
the only thing I'll say about the UV

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five R. I've just completed a
brand new technician class on this channel that

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I'll link right up here somewhere.
Just completed a brand new technician class.

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So if you want to get into
ham radio and get your first license,

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a Balfang UV five R is a
great place to start. My suggestion would

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be to get one, use it
for a while, and then upgrade to

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something else. I've said on many
of my best of videos, you should

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buy the most expensive radio that you
could afford right now, and if that

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means a twenty five or thirty dollars
Balfang UV five R, then more power

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to you, buddy. There's nothing
wrong with that, okay. I just

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don't think you should be using it
two or three or four years from now.

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Still, I think you need to
upgrade your game as time goes on.

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Assuming that you actually continue with amateur
radio, you get interested in it,

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you find out more things about it, maybe get your general grade,

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go out and do some parks on
the air. If you want to do

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this kind of thing. A balfang
UV five R is a great springboard into

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that, but it's something you're gonna
want to have to upgrade later. Put

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a comment blow if you think I'm
wrong.