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[ramapo]

Any DU Hams out there active on EchoLink?

kd2mx

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

1. Not on Echolink, but...

I am a ham, and work 2 meter and 440. :)

73, KCØRZG

[ramapo]

2. Probably can't hit your repeater

I'm just getting back to the hobby. Played around some on HF but have antenna and rfi issues to resolve. Thought I'd give EchoLink a try.

[LynzM]

3. Dude, you've got a mouthful of a call sign

Wowza.

KC9GOV

[DemoTex]

4. QRZ?

K9STR here, active on 20 meters (all privileges) mainly. Other HF freqs when I get some metal back in the air. QTH is in the mountains west of Brevard, NC. I do need to look into echo link.

73s,
Mac

[ramapo]

5. Just getting back on the air

I've made a few HF contacts just using a longwire out the window. Need to work on something a little more formal.

Made my first EchoLink qso tonite with somebody in California sitting on his patio with his HT linked to his computer. Fun and easy, almost magic.

If we all had EchoLink we could have a DU conference.

[DemoTex]

7. FB KD2MX. I just looked you up on QRZ and I see that you are Advanced.

I am working 20-meters only now on a home-brew cut for 14.28mHz. Maybe we can try for a QSO on a near freq. soon? I can't do it before next week. I'm a writer with a big deadline looming, so the radio is "OFF" until the article is submitted.
Mac

[ramapo]

20. and I resolve my RFI issues

I have to get some wire up in the trees and away from the house. My longwire-out-the-window is very effective at tripping some of our GFI circuits and "exciting" one of our phones. Gets the wife a bit upset:)

[Allenberg]

6. I'm not a Ham

but I copied code in the military.

I can copy 28 intersperse with one hand down my pants. I've done it for 20 bucks :D

[DemoTex]

8. Code Whore!

(Just kidding). Some of my SP-2E guys in the 'Nam did up to 35 wpm Morse. I have done 21 wpm at best. Who did you work for in the military? I was with the ASA (so, what I did I cannot say .. as the old saying goes!). I was in the planes supporting the 8th RRFS, Phu Bai.

Mac

[Allenberg]

10. I was in the Air Force

I was assigned to Ft Meade and Misawa, Japan.

I was assigned to Air Intelligence Agency, which was I believe the Air Force Security Service in the 70s...may have been the Electronic Security Command. I'm not too sure.

[DemoTex]

13. Bingo .. Ft. Meade!

ASA stronghold very near NSA HDQS! I think that we know the same people (so to speak!). The spook corner of Maryland.

Mac

[sakabatou]

9. I'm not a Ham

but my old busted megaphone could pick-up some weird signal... I think it was radio.

[DemoTex]

12. RFI issues at play .. radio frequency interference.

Many cheap electronic devices (like cordless phones) carry the FCC caveat that they must accept interference. What that means is that by using the phone (in this example) you cannot complain about interferrence from a properly licenced amatuer, commercial, or government transmitting station. Most hams are nice people and work to reduce RFI problems.


K9STR - DogStar

[Chichiri]

11. I wanted to be a ham radio operator when I was a kid.

Even studied for my license, which I never got. Radio was too expensive, and I had no idea how to set one up in my home.

[ramapo]

14. It's not too late

Licensing is easier now and radios are almost cheap.

[Chichiri]

16. But how does one become a ham radio operator from one's ground-level apt?

[ramapo]

19. That is a challenge....

You could get an HT and use it walking or even mobile. You could probably hit local repeaters from inside your apartment. HF would be difficult but nothing is impossible. You could use EchoLink which is voice-over-IP and links to hams all over the world.

[BikeWriter]

15. A CB channel freak here. I have a log book of thousands of contacts.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. ...

[BikeWriter]

18. Mmm!