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My call is W8EEO. I am located in West Virginia in the USA. I am looking for other Ham Operators or anyone who is interested in the hobby. Thanks for reading this.
General class operator; my best luck so far has been with 40 Meters mobile on a Icom 706Mk2g transmitting into a trailer-hitch mounted Hamstick. Contacts in New Zeland and Serbia, plus nationwide here in North America.
Currently there's too much noise to be able to operate HF at home... powerline noise is overwhelming.
Merry Christmas Binky. Thanks for the post. That is pretty good DX for a hamstick. I don't know where you are but looks good. By the way I am new on this forum. I started a ham radio group here earlier today. You can find it at: http://www.city-data.com/forum/group...eur-radio.html
I hope a lot of hams join and we can get a good ragchew going. I am using a different antenna design and I don't have near as much noise as I did with dipoles etc. I am using a 4 legged antenna which works 80-10 with a tuner and not very much noise ever. cul 73 Zeke
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Please use caution when giving out your call sign on any internet forum. Your name and address can be easily obtained.
Understood, but by the very nature of HAM radio, we're throwing our identity out to the world for anyone and everyone with a little bit of tech savvy to find our information.
New General class ham here, not in the ULS data base yet, so no call sign. Took and passed the tests last week. i am waffling between a call sign I figured out for myself, or my uncle's old call sign (he went SK in 1989). I am leaning more towards my own vanity call sign, just like the sound of it better than Uncle's old call.
Hopefully they will get the new calls out in the next week.
I'll be around...
HAM operator here, too--although I've not been active in a few years. I mainly only operated on the 2M band, until I made the mistake of trying to fix my Kenwood TH79 and fried it. Almost cried. I'm hoping to invest in a new radio soon....
My call sign is all over the QRZ forums, so it's probably not going to make any difference if I give it here. AA5L (Extra), Fort Worth, TX. I have 148 confirmed entities, not including the recent DXpedition K5D to Desecheo Island which I got on 3 bands, all with indoor antennas! (I'm a masochist.)
de K5ZJQ here. I'm a General class. General-lite they would call me, as I did the adminstrative update back when the code requirement was dropped to 5 WPM. I not a no-code vs. know-code guy, just took advantage of being able to upgrade from Tech +. I'm looking at upgrading to Extra
WX is gud at my QTH at the moment. I have no rig at the moment. Waiting to scrape up enough pennies to buy a Yaesu FT-450. Seems like a good bang for the buck. Also looking to buy a Zero-Five 43' vertical as I suspect any place I live in may have limited space for an antenna. I just thought I would pop in here to say...howdy!
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I'm hoping to invest in a new radio soon....
I have no rig at the moment. Waiting to scrape up enough pennies to buy a Yaesu FT-450. Seems like a good bang for the buck. Also looking to buy a Zero-Five 43' vertical as I suspect any place I live in may have limited space for an antenna. I just thought I would pop in here to say...howdy!
