The 435 Golden Screwdriver
The “golden screwdriver” is a radio term (It seems to have originated from CB radio) meaning “someone who thinks he or she knows what they are doing inside of a radio, and in turn messing it all up.” This is… Read More ›
The “golden screwdriver” is a radio term (It seems to have originated from CB radio) meaning “someone who thinks he or she knows what they are doing inside of a radio, and in turn messing it all up.” This is… Read More ›
There is a new 435 “official” Facebook group. There are several other Facebook groups about 435, but they seem to be mostly inactive. Please join us here:https://www.facebook.com/groups/906004234163104 Spread the word. I invited 700+ people from around the world where I had… Read More ›
Daily Bong Hit Net Every day at 4:20 PM PTHosted by Tammi Prager (N6UBY) & Tommy Prager (KD6CQS) See https://your435.com/nets/ for updates. You can check in by: The 147.435 Bong Hit Net (BHN) is a daily net to discuss the… Read More ›
We hit the hill again to RX/TX duplex the lower VHF antenna and improve the 2m RX. The shelter owner demanded we abandon the higher level RX antenna. We replaced the destroyed 440 antenna and missing 220 antenna with a… Read More ›
The only road open to the Santiago Peak repeater site was the Silverado / Maple Springs Road on the Orange County side. With the help of BB and Jonny from the next door SPARC repeater, we replaced the RF TX… Read More ›
We serviced the 435 repeater on Wednesday March 14, 2018. It had been nearly eight months since we were last on the mountain. It took awhile to get to the top of the mountain… some drama. We arrived at Indian… Read More ›
That sucked, but it shouldn’t have mattered. Today around 12:30pm-5:30pm, Southern California Edison cut power to the entire Santiago Peak for repairs. 435 remained up during the power outage with some glitches. 435 is designed to survive commercial power loss… Read More ›