AlPiNe Up NOrth InVaTaTiOnal 08' Scheduled for Nov 15th 2008

[languy99]

As long as it doesn't snow on the trip up. It supposed to be warm Friday. I don't care so much if it snows on Saturday. The snow removal in central Indiana is a little bit lacking to say the least LOL!

I'm leaving Friday morning and should be there late Friday afternoon.

GTO_04

what are you bringing up?

[alpinestars_2002795]

Cool GTO. Hope to see ya there, and that v1 1.7 lol Those laser sensor's really mess me up I wana get a good look at them .

Does anybody coming up have a ham license? Just curious?


AlPiNe~

[alpinestars_2002795]

Radar Bands in use in order of presedence in Mi.


Highways and two lane secondary roadways.

Ka,K, Laser, X-band might be on a dusty shelf in some area's but is pretty much no longer in use from what i've seen.

Freeways/Toll roads.

Laser, Ka, Pacing(sneaking up behind and pacing, often used later in conjunction with a IO burst to confirm, they also love doing this here at night, but do it night or day.), K band. At times K band has been known to make comebacks in certain parts of the state, although It is still very widly in use by city pd around here. So take it seriously untill determined otherwise.

Laser is becoming a much more frequent choice of officers here in Michigan on the freeways, although Ka band is still equally just as common. It's i'd say about 50/50 now day's and you never know which of the two could be around the next adjact corner in the freeway.

Also BEWARE of the tree's in the median's on the freeway. You never know what they may hide. Officers just love to use their dark colored MSP cars here to blend in to the Dark colored tree's and sit in the middle of curves, off axis with 35.5ghz ka and then not turn it on untill your 250~ 500ft~ away at most. THis has become a comon practice of State Pd on the freeway, and County Pd on the freeway's in Michigan. The hidding in tree's thing has even been known to be taken to the extent of putting a shooter in the woodlines with lidar just like on speeders! Then they'll have 3-5 other chaser cars waiting, although I haven't seen this done in awhile they have been known to mix it up and attempt this.

[languy99]

hey alpine, are there going to be any tools there or should I bring some? Things such as a drill, pliers, screwdrivers and such.

[Aoshi]

I was wondering the same thing. I'm expecting there will be some tweaking and moving of equipment during these tests, so do we need to bring any tools or do you have that covered?

[GTO_04]

what are you bringing up?

V1 1.7 (old) firmware 2.690
V1 1.8 version 3.826
STi with ramp up fix
BEL 985
GRE PSR-500
Uniden 396T
RD tester (if I remember to bring it)
Cobra RDD

I have a ham license but no ham equipment yet. That's one obsession I haven't plunged into yet.

GTO_04

[alpinestars_2002795]

Yes, I will have tools available. I even have a full out shop with a lift available if needed.

I was just wondering if maybe anybody else had a ham ticket on the way in. If so like I said the local repeater is, 146.940 with a 103.5PL/CTCSS tone and a Negative offset. There is also a repeater in the Bay City area in which goes all the way from the meeting location to flint/detroit. The frequency on that and offsets are. Negative 600Khz offset, 145.310Mhz, 131.8hz PL tone/CTCSS. For those interested I will be talking on the Bay City Repeater, which is the 145mhz one listed above. This can be heard on a scanner for miles almost across the hole east side of the State of Michigan. If you have a scanner it might be handy to program in. If you have your ham ticket, my call is KD8HGM.

Happy motoring everybody and GTO04 . Happy heavy right foot hehe .


AlPiNe~

[GTO_04]

I'm not used to tree-lined medians LOL! I'll have to watch those.

I'll have to add the ham gear one of these days.

GTO_04

[languy99]

I'm not used to tree-lined medians LOL! I'll have to watch those.

I'll have to add the ham gear one of these days.

GTO_04

Better be really careful in those medias because they hide really well. One time I got saved from seeing the shine off the windshield of the cruiser when the sun hit it. The LEO was running I/O Ka so I would have had no warning.

[alpinestars_2002795]

Ya, I have to give them props they are great at doing that stuff huh langguy?

I've had this look on my face even with all the gadgets and miles i've driven in this state. Every once in awhile they are just slick.

As for the ham gear GTO no biggy, i'll still have mine on though incase anybody coming up has one, . You can get one when ya get one. I have a 2m icom rig that isn't working on the repeater feature, cause the tone board went out, if smebody replaced it though it would work fine. Although it works fine for Simplex operation. I ended up replacing it with the yaseu 8900r which i've been extremely happy with thus far. It is nice being able to scan, and be on the radio on the same rig at the same time, it also allows me to take off one of the extra antennas .




AlPiNe~