I have a no-bay non-DS-anythingā¦ 
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i set āthe loungeā as an open category, not just for ālevel 3sā and upā¦
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aaand this thread now lives in the āLoungeā category.
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Hi Jack,
the lounging derailment cat
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Completely derailing the thread (although I guess thatās the point), but I passed my ham tech exam yesterday and Iām super happy. Iām waiting for all of the admin stuff to go through and Iāll hop on the air. I know @turbo2ltr has a few radios, do you have any DMR gear?
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Nice congrats! I have one of those MD-380 DMR HTs but I rarely use it. Thereās not too many DMR repeaters around here. Honestly I stay on one repeater my friend owns because I donāt like talking to strangers and only listen when Iām in the carā¦which now that I work from home is rare.
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Right on. Iām studying for my tech right now. I inherited my grandads old radio and decided to start getting into it.
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Itās super easy if you understand basic electrical/RF theory. I studied on hamexam.org.
@turbo2ltr I picked up a 7550e and have DMR MARC in it right now. I feel like Iām cheating when I hear people in New Zealand or Australia since itās all over the internet. Someday Iād like to own a DMR repeater but that would be in the very distant future, sadly I donāt have the $700 for a repeater plus whatever for feedline and antennas, not to mention internet and power
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My circle of ham friends all bought these DMR Raspberry PI Zero based hotspots and use those with the cheap TYT HTs. Just not my cup of tea.
Yeah I just took the tests over and over until I was getting 90+% I actually took my extra expecting to fail because I didnāt feel I was ready but somehow I passed. lol. I originally got my Novice back in 1990ā¦ I was president of the ham radio clubā¦because no one else showed up. They actually had a station at the HS. I had some AM gear (tubes!) someone had given me but with a novice you couldnāt do much, and the internet was just starting to come together which was more interesting than morse codeā¦ My ticket expired in 2000, but I got it again in 2010.
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Lucky. Where I am weāre lucky if any sort of tech group other than robotics gets funded, funding seems sparse unless youāre athletics or robotics. I donāt know what bands you ran on but for me personally I see very little to no use for anything below 2M other than very long distance contacts without a repeater which is not really my cup of tea. I am more a fan of local repeater stuff.
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Derail! Derail!
So I went the opposite way. You can get a cheapo FM 15W transmitter off of the internets, throw up a di-pole antenner and Bam!, Instant Radio Station.
Arrgghh! Me Mateyās! 
Of Course youāve got to live way out in the sticks to get away with it. One little complaint and Iād have to junk the whole rig. Still, from the cow lot, to the fork in the road, Iām the biggest thing rockinā around here.
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EXACTLY
Some amazing info being shared already.
Bepis, OāDaily and Turbo all hamming it up 
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That sounds like fun. My grand master plan is to have a couple DMR repeaters at a facility out in the sticks with a bunch of heated garage bays, storage, server room, radio antennas, backup generator, you name it.
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Yeah I had an FT-857 as my first radio. I barely used it. I think I made two contacts on it. I quickly transitioned to the higher frequency 2M and 440 mobile rigs. I have 900Mhz radio in the car as well. I think I have s 220 HT somewhere too. I also modded my FT-8800 to get into the business band (shhhh). My FTM-400 is sitting on my desk because it wonāt transmit more than 10W and I have to send it inā¦ but Iām lazy.
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Donāt need to mod my 7550e to get into business band. 
Itās 403-512 from the factory.
What do you do on 900mhz? It seems like it would have such a short range and high coax loss for what it is compared to 70cm.
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Those 2 werenāt even on my Radarr [sic], I had never even heard of them until you mentioned them. They have heaps of potential, I had a play and set up an RSS feed from my torrent providers, AND the Unexpected Bonus was the compatibility with Synology Download Station.
I pretty much have these solutions in place through other means, but without them, I would definitely go for those two.
I couldnāt find any renaming functionality, although it is a good media player, My synology has a native player (DS Video station) that fulfills this need, But cheers for the suggestion
Not bad, but I found another similar, but in my opinion better option ( see the bottom of this post )
Not a fan, tried again because of your glowing reccomendation, a bit too clunky, which in my opinion is unacceptable in this day and age, But seriously thanks for the suggestion
I also found, āName my TV Seriesāā¦Fail
and
tinyMediaManagerā¦ I might be onto a winner here , Sort Of, Not a drag and drop, but quite easy to use, decent GUI, has a scrape functionā¦ It is built on Java specifically for Kodi Media Center.
I will persist with this for a bit. As it is closest to what I was looking for.
I would still highly recommend TheRenamer for those still using Windows 7 ( if there is anybody still using it with no security support)
THANKS ALL for your suggestions, really appreciated
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I have a Synology (DS418, 4 HDDs) but Iām far from this network speed.
What kind of network setup do you have?
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@SnarkBe Well donāt expect to get those speeds when actually reading/writing disks (even SSDs). Those speeds were from an NVMe drive in a PC to a ramdisk in the Synology. I have the DS1618+ which has a single PCIe slotā¦ I put a Mellanox ConnectX2 SFP+ card ($30ea used on amazon) with 10GTek LC 10Gb fiber modules ($22ea) and ran Amazon Basics 30m OM3 fiber ($20) between (the NAS drive is on the other side of the house). I have the same hardware in the PC. I actually have 2 PCs so I have a MikroTik 5 port SFP+ switch ($130) near the NAS so the NAS to the switch uses a DAC cable. ($15)
10Gb networking is in everyoneās budget these days.
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