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Ham Radio

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munruss

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Are there any amateur radio operators out here? i got my license in '93 and i just renewed it for another 10 years. i haven't spoke on the geriatric bands since '95.
 
Yeah, sure, lots of us here. I'm an Extra, renewed on '00.

I used to work mostly satellite (OSCAR 10, & 13), and some of the packet birds. Did some low band stuff like talking to the Grandmaster's car of the RoseBowl parade and some of the DXpedition stations.

I got some QSL cards from the MIR astronauts and some of the SAREX missions (For the non-Hams: MIR, and many of the Shuttle / ISS missions have Amateur radio equipment onboard - you can talk to the astro/cosmonauts...usually packet (like a bulletin board), occasionally voice).

I haven't been on since I moved into a townhouse (community rules & general laziness).

I still have a tri-bander in the car (2, 70, 1.2G) and use it to talk car-to-car when a bunch of use are traveling.

Good Luck, 73

Scott (WV9A)
 
I have my license. Just got it recently actually, figured it would be fun. I dont yet have a radio though.
 
I've seen some copy at 50+ ... while carrying on a conversation about something completely different.

One of the folks I used to do testing with as a VE was an old Signal Corps guy. It was amazing to watch; he also wrote *real* small so he could write faster; what would take me a page he did in an area a little bigger than a large postage stamp.

Of the few times I actually spent time trying to do a code QSO, I kept my PK2232 TNC listening and interpreting, in case I got way out of sync. I passed the 20 WPM test, but it wasn't much more than a week or two before I fell back to receiving ~13-15. I doubt I could do even that anymore.

Satellite was a good time. Very civil. Good people. I miss it. I don't think the condo association would let me put up the 22' beams .... I still have the radios though (Icom "twins" - 725 / 745).

I still recommend it. A lot of the knowledge is helpful for use in 802.11 wireless. I passed the Cisco Wireless FE test without taking the class or buying the books. Waves is waves, antennas is antennas ....

FWIW

Scott




 
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