Any Ham Radio Operators Here
 

hello folks

just wondered if there are any ham radio people here

g6120 kf2do

KD0DQZ here...recently licensed and in the process of getting my vintage AM/SSB station set up. Need the warmth of tubes for the long Minnesota winter!

had my license for some time now but dont get on the air very often mainly 2 meters for the most part .

learned the code but really have not used it , my wife finally got her license as well

congratulations good for you its a great hobby

g6120

Hi,

K4KT here! Extra Class licensed! I am also a FCC General License with Broadcast Endorsement and SBE certified as a CSBE, CBT, and CNT! I have RF in my veins! :tresbon:

I know WA2ISE's a regular poster here, (ever visit his page? LOTS of cool stuff!) along with Jeff WB8NHV. I'm sure there's more than just a handful who frequent this site...along with possibly some who may be curious about ham radio and would like to learn more. Might even warrant setting up a separate ham radio section here in the antique/vintage radio/TV area. Hmmmmm......

K0FSJ here, occasionally on 2m in the Jeep but also have 70cm and 6m. Tech+, I am. One day will upgrade...

Not a ham, but DO have a small, meager collection of Boatanchors-Collins 51J3, R-389, 2 R-390s, R-391, 2 R-390As, R-392, Hallicrafters SX-28, S-39, S-36, SX-73, National NC-183D, NC-125, HRO50T1, Hammarlund SP-600, Scott RBO-3, 800B, Racal RA-17, Rohde & Schwarz EK-07, 2 Nems Clarke 1302B, ICOM R-7000, JRC NRD-545, and, of course, a mighty, mighty National SW-54 that throws 'em ALL into the creek...

Meager collection, eh? Sandy my man, you need to hit QRZ.com and start taking sample tests. Tech first, then General...and if you feel brave take a whack at Extra. You're the kind of person who'd fit in just fine in the ham community.

Licence expired now but was G8IVL - 40w(valves) FM @144Mhz, all home built (but not designed) including a VFO, into an 8 over 8 slot fed Yagi at 30' (and ~30' asl).

During a 'lift' made it 5 by 9 into Germany (~400 miles) - so felt quite proud of that.


John

Licensed in Canada since 1982, holder of the (now defunct) Amateur, Advanced
Amateur and Digital certificates. In other words, the approximate equivalent
of the U.S. Extra. Not too active over the past 12 years or so, but hope to get
back on HF CW someday, it's really the only part of ham radio that has ever
brought me real pleasure. I don't want to take sides in the code/no-code
debate (it's over anyway, isn't it?), but I do like code!

73 de VE2GTP

73 de WA2ISE. Got it in 1976 as an old style tech (5wpm and general written) and in 2000 upgraded to Extra (took the old advanced and extra writtens, and saved the CSCEs to cash them in on "upgrade day" April 2000. When the FCC dropped the code from 20 to 5wpm for extras. Got a used Kenwood TS440SAT and had a blast on HF (it was at the top of the sunspot cycle then).

back in 1976 the FCC was recycling 2x3 callsigns, and it turns out someone in upstate NY had my call years before I did.

I just never have cared about getting "The Ticket"-Amateur radio is a whole different ballgame than SWLing/collecting. Plus, I'm too gawdam stupid to figger out all the theory & stuff you have to have for yr license. Really, I am...

sorta
 

Kd8bdl. I have a general that I have yet to use.:thmbsp: I have to many hobbies so I decided that this one would be comprised of mostly free or really cheap equipment. So far I have a nice $10 beam for 2 meter, and two free tribands. A very heavy and old Radio Industries/Halicrafters rotor, another freeby. I also have a Hygain tr2c rotor that was free. The guy who gave me the Tr2c said he used a three wire contoller with it, it is supposed to be 8. I have no idea how he did it tho. I might be getting some nice boat anchors from the guy I got one of tribands from, then I just might be on the air!:thmbsp:

Technician
 

N9ZQA - licensed in December 1994. Played around with 2M phone and packet for a while, but really haven't been active much lately. Stuck a magmount on the car and occasionally listen to the local 2M repeaters during my commute, but don't talk much, if at all.

The WB8NHV story in a nutshell
 

WB8NHV - licensed since June 1972. I had a CW (Novice) station on the air from '72-'74, upgraded to Technician in mid-'75, then moved back to my old neighborhood and operated FM from mid-1975 until 1982, with a brief stint on six meters from May '75 until July '76. (I got the surprise of my life the first day I was on six, crystal-controlled on 50.35 MHz, when I worked WA0SDK in South Dakota--well, sorta, kinda, as I don't think he heard me. :no:) Got back on CW in mid-'82 with my old Novice setup (Heathkit DX40/VF1 transmitter and VFO, Hallicrafters SX101A receiver, and a 25-foot trap vertical) and upgraded to General three years later. Worked 49 states and a handful of foreign countries on 80-15-meter CW with several different rigs, then lost my antenna in early 1999. :no: I moved to my present QTH (location) in late 1999, so was completely off the air at least a year--getting settled in a new apartment and getting my bearings in the new location (12 miles east of my former QTH) took up most of my time.

I am now back on the air, mostly on 2-meter FM (I'm a member of the Lake County Amateur Radio Association or LCARA; have been since 1987), although I do have my HF rig, an Icom IC-725 nine-band 100-watt rig, set up in my bedroom. The radio feeds a Barker and Williamson AP-10A apartment portable antenna and is used mostly on 28.450 MHz, where the LCARA ten-meter SSB net meets at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday of each week. The club also has a 2-meter net on its repeater, N8BC, 147.81-21 in Painesville, Ohio (30 miles east of Cleveland). The net meets each Thursday of the month (except the first, which is LCARA's meeting night) at seven p.m. Eastern time on that repeater. You do not have to be a club member to check in. If you are in the Lake County or eastern Cuyahoga County area, have a hand-held or base 2-meter rig, and are able to access the repeater, you are more than welcome to join us on the 2-meter net; likewise, if you hear the ten-meter net and have at least a Technician class license, you are welcome to check in there as well.

BTW, I am also experimenting with voice-over-IP (VoIP) using K1RFD's EchoLink software on my computer, which also allows me access to the local EchoLink node (N8PB) on 147.57 MHz using my Icom IC-T22A handheld. The node is open to all amateurs in the Lake County, Ohio area within simplex range.

73 (best of regards),