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Reviews (9)
Feb 22, 2017
Perfect little sensor
I needed something that I could easily connect to a TI Launchpad and Papilio DUO FPGA board. This is a great device, and works perfectly. While it can be good for simply sensing day and night conditions, it has an analog voltage output. When using for weather station, you can not only detect the amount of daylight, but it also responds to passing overhead clouds and overcast conditions. This is a great piece of analog information to use in conjunction with temperatures and humidity conditions. As a note, I de-soldered the actual sensor and re-soldered it to the reverse side of the board for mounting in a case (sensor outward, wiring and IC facing inward). Great addition to your Arduino experiments! I recommend it.
Jul 21, 2016
Works great, but...
4 of 4 found this helpful This is a fantastic little radio, and I can strongly recommend it to the following:
1) New amateur radio operators (a great way to get started on local 2m and 70cm repeaters).
2) Volunteer first responders for fire, EMS, civil whose municipalities use VHF radio.
3) Facility maintenance (hospital, hotel, manuf, etc) where an FCC license is already established for that facility.
*Make certain the FCC frequency of the system you want on is within the programming range of this radio!*
It's lightweight, and all kinds of accessories such as extension antennas, vehicular antennas, spare and replacement batteries, headsets, handsets, throat mics, battery bypass for use in vehicles, replacement belt clips, adapters, etc ad nauseum. It's not expensive so if it's damaged, it's not like damaging a Motorola VHF or UHF handheld. There are enough programming features (repeater offsets and squelch-tail controls, VOX transmitting, separate RX and TX ctcss or DPL, audio tones, even an alert transmission, ANI transmission, preamble or postamble code transmission, DTMF, etc etc etc) to adapt to practically any system out there.
The catch: Programming this by the front panel can be confusing and frustrating. It takes a little while to get the hang of it, and after several websites (some with errors), YouTube videos (some with errors), printing several guides and function descriptions -- I finally figured out how to program in repeaters with offsets and TX-only PL code. This is a must-do for Amateur Radio operators to use it. Simplex mode isn't so hard to program, but it is similar enough that you really need to take time to learn ALL the steps.
A better solution is to buy a USB programming cable for it and download Chirp.
And here's the next catch: The cheap eBay USB cables for it are often not compatible with the Windows or Mac OS operating systems, because they don't use FTDI chipsets for communicating from USB to the radio. There's websites all about this, just Google them. There's also some ways to get around this, but if you're programming a slew of these radios, go ahead and buy from eBay an FTDI Kenwood/Baofeng cable. They are about $20 as of this writing.
There's a big scare about "fake" NA-771 Nagoya Reuex antennas out there. The one I bought fits every 'expert opinion' of being 'fake' but I'm hitting repeaters at a line-of-sight distance of 19 miles over flat terrain with it. YMMV.
Buy one! Have fun!
Aug 05, 2016
Great pads at a great price!
2 of 4 found this helpful I ordered these as replacements for my Sony Professional MDR-7506 headphone pads, which were worn out. Because they are not expensive, I wondered what the quality would be.
But I've been very happy with them. They slip on pretty easily, and they feel really soft.
It allows me to wear these phones for hours without hurting my ears at all. In fact, it feels like they are floating off my ears, and they seal off surrounding sounds pretty well.
Good quality and the price is great.