Text 11662, 65 rader
Skriven 2005-04-17 02:25:02 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 11618 av Sean Dennis (1:18/200)
Ärende: Off to the Wilderness
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Sean Dennis -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 SD> *** Quoting Ed Hulett from a message to Sean Dennis ***

 EH>> Vern appears to think that he can just add more obsticles to prove me
 EH>> wrong. If he'd been reading up on amateur radio and the possibilities
 EH>> instead of firing off question after question to me he'd know for
 EH>> himself.

 SD> I'm not going to approach the subject again in here.  It's too evident
 SD> of what happens when you try to offer an idea to help someone.  Then /I/
 SD> get accused of having blinders on.  If they'd only just go do some
 SD> research, but no...

It is rather obvious that none of them know a single thing about what amateur
radio is all about. They seem to think that anyone should have the right to buy
any radio with any power output and just key up and start chattering. It
doesn't work that way.

 SD> Anyway, since you understand (and Thurston does too), I'm putting up a
 SD> new website about my life as a ham.  It's not quite ready yet because I
 SD> taught myself some new techniques (CSS) and am tinkering with it now. :)

Cool. Let me know what the url is when you're done with it.

They don't seem to understand that HAM radio, the way it is and has been, does
more to bring people together regardless of background or politics. If there
was no license requirement it would be a noisy mess.

 SD> I was given an Azden PCS-5000 (2 meter mobile) yesterday in trade for a
 SD> computer monitor and a computer I had.  After taking the morning
 SD> medicines, I'm off to Ham Radio Outlet (about a 30 minute drive) to pick
 SD> up a through-glass antenna (my mother-in-law said no to my mounting my
 SD> Diamond 5/8 wavelength 2 meter whip on top of the house) so I can set
 SD> this thing up right next to this computer. :)  No more having to go out
 SD> to the car for the weekly nets...

Cool on the Azden. My first 2 meter mobile was an old used Azden PCS-2000 I
bought at my first HAM swap meet. I think I paid something like $75 for it. It
worked great! I then bought a Hustler 2 meter colinear (7foot tall off the back
of my old Chevy Citation) and talked all over the place. It was fun.

Now I have 2 IC-208H dual banders, one for the car and one for the shack.

My shack is shaping up with a IC-551D 6 meter all-mode with the FM board. No
tone board though. I also have a IC-737 I bought from a friend and then won a
FT-990, an SP-6 external speaker for the 990, and a FT-840 with mic and
external speaker. Now I just have to wait for my friend to bring over the 40
foot tower he's giving me and the TH-6 6 element 10,15,20 meter yagi and wilson
wr-500 rotator he;s selling me.

I'm also putting up 2 shorty g5rv dipoles 90 degrees off each other and a
tri-band vertical. Just above the TH-6 I'll put up a home-brew 3 element 6
meter yagi. With all my HF rigs controlable from my dual P-III 1GHz computer
I'll be able to get into DXing and contesting quite nicely. :-)

Anyway, maybe one of these days we'll hear each other on the air.

Until then

73 kc7flr

Ed

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