Welcome!  GEMOTO is not a club.  GEMOTO may be thought-of  as a networking group made up from members and officers from several New England radio clubs with common interests.   This is a central depository area for New England hams who share an interest in:

Mike Giovannucci, N1OMJ with his seed stock of 50 Motorola MTX9250 900MHz  portables. Mike and K1BOS purchased these to resell at a low price to help increase 900 MHz activity in the Boston area.  It worked!

Conversions of surplus commercial GE and Motorola gear to ham operation... from P25 digital to tube type!   VHF-FM operation on less-than-mainstream bands such as 10 meters, 6 meters & 440   A pioneering effort at 900 MHz  (see left)   VHF and UHF digital (both APCO P25 and now some D-Star)   Kenwood commercial gear is also well respected and we are adding a Kenwood section.   Building and operating ham repeaters   Preservation of the great engineering heritage from two companies in their once-dominant eras.   Lately, even large group buys of 900 MHz portables and repeaters to convert.   One source for our portables: www.usedradio.com

We're also realists so we admit to occasionally using traditional multi-band Yaesu, Icom and Kenwood ham "appliances".  But again we aren't a formal club, we are just a group of hams with common interests..

FYI:  If you are interested in using commercial gear and building ham repeaters, be sure not to miss this great site by Kevin Custer:   http://www.repeater-builder.com/rbtip/

New -> 6-meter repeater from Gunstock Mountain now ON THE AIR!  (click here)

              Operation Wolfpack-2 (click here)

              Pictures from Nearfest-II and Hearfest-III

              6-meter repeater at NH's Mt. Uncanoonuc  (click here)              

              Dayton update 2007 (click here)

Local knowledge

Members of this group tend to help each other via equipment contributions, skills, time, etc.  We are not a formal club, we are just a group of approximately 100 local, active hams with common interests.  Due to a sudden surge of low-cast surplus gear, operations on 900MHz is currently the hot growth topic.  When in the area, members can often be found on:

• 29.60 simplex  TX PL 151.4    vertical antenna polarity 
• 53.07 MHz  Mt. Uncanoonuc, NH  W1DC   (large system, link to details)
• 53.77  MHz PL 71.9 now on the air central New Hampshire
• 53.27 MHz  PL 71.9  Framingham, MA   WA1NVC
• 53.65 MHz  PL 71.9  Windham, NH    N1WPN
• 448.175 MHz   PL 88.5  Framingham, MA    WA1NVC  IRLP node 461
• 927.1375   PL 100.0 out   902.1375 PL 131.8 in    Waltham, MA  W1MHL
• 927.8875   PL 100.0 out   902.8875 PL 131.8 in    Hopkinton, MA  N3HFK

Interestingly, members of this ad-hoc group are often not local to Framingham or even Massachusetts.  Due to the wide area six-meter coverage, additional participants come from New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and Rhode Island.  A wide-area 900 MHz repeater link-up seems to be gaining traction.  Aside from on-air sharing of knowledge, the group meets every month for lunch at restaurants in diverse  geographic locations.  We typically swap war stories on how to acquire, convert and operate GE,  Motorola and Kenwood commercial gear and build ham repeaters.  The restaurant table is usually littered with both nachos and walkies of the commercial variety.  Several of our 100+ participants have previously worked for two-way radio dealers in past lives although only three are currently employed in that field .

Others simply enjoy the less crowded bands, the occasional technical conversation and the opportunity to meet new friends with similar interests.

Typically on the third Thursday of the month, we have been meeting for 11:30AM luncheons at Rte-128 area restaurants.  An evening dinner group has also been started further south and west.  Monthly breakfasts are in Northboro, MA.  Turnouts now seem to exceed "real club" meetings even though we do not want to become a large group that requires some form of formal management.

Click here for
breakfast meeting shots.

Click here to listen to an MP3 that better describes our group's heritage and demographics.

If you get a twinkle in your eye when someone mentions a Delta,
MASTR-II, TK690, Spectra, GTX, MTX or an Astro Saber, you'll fit right in!

MTX9250's for 900 MHz ham use
 

MASTR-II with NHRC controller	click for the Portable Clinic In the 70's,  a souped-up 2m HT220 was used by the BMOC's.  In fact, that MADE them a BMOC !	The Motorola GTX and Spectra series are now used on many new 900 MHz ham repeater systems.
MICOR 1/4 kW repeaters (and their story is here)	HT1000 for the new BMOC's	MASTR-II repeater 70's & 80's  (and still today!)
Local content contributions by: Rick Zach, K1RJZ Al Muise, K1NZQ Kim Peck, WA1PBU Will Bartlett, N1PXA and Claire Bartlett (new 900 mHz technical support person) Roger Coulson, WA1NVC Wayne Nakata, N1WPN   Bar schmoozing at Dayton.   Evening dinners at local restaurants, or monthly breakfasts with the walkies.  >      Monthly luncheons at The Great Wall.   The common theme among participants: Real radios hurt when you drop them on your foot.             Just GE Delta,  really fast.  (RANGR too) One of our newest projects is to compile links to certain rare documentation on the GE Delta and GE Rangr series of radios.  Due to the demise of the former GE Land Mobile empire, this information is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain.  This section has links guiding you to radio combination/model numbers, control head variants, cable part numbers, and more.  Delta intro page: http://www.gemoto.com/delta.htm A bit of vintage ham radio history                                                                                                                     http://www.gemoto/FM.htm

Other links of interest for those who appreciate the finer things in life:
 

last revised: 07/09/2008