Since putting my new wire in the trees, I have been having a blast recalling all the fun that is radio. Working barefoot, phone and digital, I have wandered from Asiatic Russia, through the Balkans and Mediterranean, through both Western Europe and Western US, even into Australia and South Africa.
So far, there have been more threats of getting on the air than actual contacts.
Anybody gonna DO any radio? 8)
I keep looking for you, Albi. I was on 20m, 30m, and 40m, both phone and PSK for hours yesterday. No joy. I don't do CW, although I'm trying to learn.Originally Posted by W3MIV
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
I have rigs parked on 6925.0 USB, 14.275.0 USB, 27.165 AM and 27.385 LSB at the moment.
Oh, you meant amateur radio.
There were several nights back in spring which witnessed a bunch of us Islanders getting together on 75M. Summer thunderstorms and their associated static put the kibosh to that.
This time last year I tried to get ahold of Doug, W5GA on 10M during a sporadic E event. We heard each other...barely.
I've even worked 'PT on 75M - right lengthy QSO and have the card to prove it.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
My work scheudule puts me in night owl status to most, but SunMonTues are normal days off. How about tonight or tomorrow? 75 meter phone has been pretty good these recent mornings. Certainly digital and/or CW if that doesn't work.
If I remember to login, I can be poked at via MSN Messenger.
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
I'll happy to work any band; "nightowl" status for someone in CO might make it a bit dicey for an OF like me in MD, but I'm game. I am on 14.070.+ right now on digital -- can move up as needed right now and I will put the bullshit video call sign on the air to make it easier.
As for phone, I can work 75 if I can hear. My 'tenna is right low, but CO should be off the broad side pretty much. Let's all try for a sked of some sort. There is no rush, although I am leaning on 68. ;)
I won't be home for another 5 hours.
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
That'll be past midnight for me. Maybe we can set something for tomorrow?
I can accommodate a sked around 9ish tomorrow evening. '3N and I can usually work each other without a problem on 75 at that hour and you're not that far from Jim.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
Count me in. Send me a freq or vicinity of the band and I will listen for y'all.
WTF is this radio thing you speak of?Anyone do radio around here?
"People Who Don't Want Their Beliefs Laughed at Shouldn't Have Such Funny Beliefs" -AD5MB
"If someone tells you he believes in and talks to an invisible bunny named Harvey, you put him on medication and a regimen of therapy. If someone tells you he believes in and talks to God, well, that's perfectly acceptable. Why that's the case is impossible for me to fathom." - WP2XX
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