CQ CQ CQ .. calling all amateur radio operators

[linuxgeek]

Oh my. Couple of the OCARES guys working on a slowscan TV setup for Field Day happened across a operator in California sending out porn images. Something with a dog collar. LOL

Who's the Lit member in 6 land having way to much fun with their radio?

 

[rjohns86us]

You think that guy in 6 land is having fun, monitor 20 meters for a while and look at some of the stuff coming out of Europe ...don't know if they are Lit members, but I sure wouldn't be sending that stuff over the airways .

Field day now just over two days away....Got the motorhome ready to take up to the site...antennas build and checked out..food and drinks bought...and can't wait! Just saw a list of ARES groups in this state that will be operating from the various EOC's. 19 groups so far....plus all the local radio clubs.

we will be operating 5 stations, with two strictly CW. I will be have the 20 and 40 meter phone stations at my motorhome...outside under the awnings....and running on two generators.. Scott, KG4WPU will be the official chef .
Listen for W4E and lets see how many Lit members we can work on phone.....along with the Call, Station class, and State, go ahead and mention you are a Lit member and I will post a list of any we do make contact with.

Oh my. Couple of the OCARES guys working on a slowscan TV setup for Field Day happened across a operator in California sending out porn images. Something with a dog collar. LOL

Who's the Lit member in 6 land having way to much fun with their radio?

 

[linuxgeek]

Field Day is tomorrow, so this a is PSA bump. Field Day info is 12 posts up.

 

[Lady Christabel]

It's Field Day.

*doing the happy ham field day bootie wiggle*

 

[linuxgeek]

*bounce* *bounce* *bounce*

 

[dickE]

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[linuxgeek]

CQ Field Day CQ Field Day CQ Field Day

This is W4MCO Whiskey 4 Mike Charlie Oscar

Calling CQ Field Day.

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I do believe I will be hearing that in my sleep for a while. Of course it doesn't help that when I walked out of the Comm Center I swear there was a MockingBird whistling "CQ CQ CQ"

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Don't know about on Phone, but I and someone else contacted W4E via PSK31. By the time I made contact it was a duplicate.

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And now after being awake for over 24 hours, it is time for a shower and some sleep. But first, I have to set the VCR because we actually got someone form one of the local media outlets to show up and the story is suppose to air at 1800 today.

 

[Lady Christabel]

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(CQ CQ CQ DE W4MCO W4MCO K)


I went, I saw, I cooked, I typed, I benchered, I voiced, I antenna'd, I cleaned, I PSKd, I conquered!

Notes from Field Day 2004:

~I always knew those years of party planning would come in handy. Feeding 30 geeks for 30 hours was child's play. Next year, someone else gets to be the kitchen bitch. I'm gonna be too busy on CW.

~I like roof work in the middle of the night. It's cool and dark and it freaks out those on the ground because their depth of field is off and they can't see I'm not as close to the edge as they think I am.

~PSK is uberfun. It's like running 2 IM convos at the same time I'm balancing my checkbook. Once I got in the zone, I was schmoooove! Crystal Method is most excellent PSK logging music.

~I've heard too much Morse Code. When my computer booted, I listened to the hard drive and heard MC. I heard "frog" and "egg" plus gibberish. I thought squirrels ran this thing, not frogs. Now, I need to see if I get the same thing everytime it boots.

~Field Day is no place for manners, especially voicing HF. When I was nice, I got no contacts. When I became a pushy, raging bitch, I got about 2 per minute. I've found a niche for my inner bitch. Now worship her, for she is the reigning Goddess of HF at W4MCO.

~When you bring disposable toothbrushes to Field Day and remind everyone to brush, they look at you like you've lost your mind. ...but they brush! Field Day is no excuse to ignore your dental health.

~I've been awake since 0630 Friday morning. I have those spoogley skiggley doowackies at the corners of my vision. I think I'll sleep now.


I'll post pics later when I give a shit.



Oh, and I hope you had a Happy Field Day too, dickE!

 

[linuxgeek]

Well, for a layman's understanding of Amateur Radio, the reporter didn't do to bad for a minute or so squib. Hit the high points which people may pickup on. Hams helping with weather forcasting & alerts and Hams helping with Red Cross operations during disasters.

The cool thing was the reporter gave our Skywarn manager & one of the Red Cross on call personnel for callout to fires & such her direct phone number and asked he call her any time he is called out and no other news agency is on the scene.

The education process is slow, but this could definately add to it for those who take their easy, practically anywhere communications for granted.

..And for the non-hams, you don't have to be a ham to be part of Skywarn, you just have to be willing to participate.

 

[linuxgeek]

Wow.. too separate version of the piece on OCARES. The 2 minute version does get the idea across much better then the initial 1 minute version they ran.

 

[rjohns86us]

Saw you on the log sheet for the PSK station..that was Tom (KB4HQA) running the PSK, and I did make a contact with you guys on phone, don't know if so you must have made another one later, since my contact with your group was not a dupe. We had a great time, lots of operators, and spectators...news media (Tow tv stations, and both local newspapers) and lots of good food. Now to go back and tear down the antennas, bring the motorhome back here....and get ready for the next one. I personally logged over 500 contacts on 75 phone.

Now if can go to sleep without hearing the "CQ CQ CQ Field Day" in my sleep

Another stations out the work W4E?

CQ Field Day CQ Field Day CQ Field Day

This is W4MCO Whiskey 4 Mike Charlie Oscar

Calling CQ Field Day.

- - - -- - - - - -

I do believe I will be hearing that in my sleep for a while. Of course it doesn't help that when I walked out of the Comm Center I swear there was a MockingBird whistling "CQ CQ CQ"

_ _ _ _ _ _ _

Don't know about on Phone, but I and someone else contacted W4E via PSK31. By the time I made contact it was a duplicate.

-- - - - - - -

And now after being awake for over 24 hours, it is time for a shower and some sleep. But first, I have to set the VCR because we actually got someone form one of the local media outlets to show up and the story is suppose to air at 1800 today.

 

[linuxgeek]

Ah, we didn't do 75m with our primary setup. Planned to do 80, but either water or broken wire killed the 80m traps on the inverted V dipole. We ended up doing our contacts on the EOC radios on 40, 20, 15, & 10. The folded dipole on the war wagon is good from 10m to 160m, so if you contacted us on 75, it was probably from someone on that radio. Primary people on it were Jacques, Jack, and Lee. Jacques' French accent would have given him away. Funny with the folding dipole, there were a lot of stations we could hear, but we couldn't raise a response to our CQ's. Wish I had a way to talk my apartment complex to letting me put one up. think I'm going to go with the Ironhouse Hamstick dipole config for now. Just need to build a base so i can get some distance between the antennas & the building.

Know we had 85 contacts on CW, over 80 on PSK, and 5 via satellite. Don't remember the phone count. Visitor count was a lot lower than we hoped with the number of flyers that were hung up, but we did have 3 hams come by and sign up to be part of ARES.

One of the benefits of working out of an EOC, only stuff that had to be torn down and stowed was the war wagon antennas.

Saw you on the log sheet for the PSK station..that was Tom (KB4HQA) running the PSK, and I did make a contact with you guys on phone, don't know if so you must have made another one later, since my contact with your group was not a dupe. We had a great time, lots of operators, and spectators...news media (Tow tv stations, and both local newspapers) and lots of good food. Now to go back and tear down the antennas, bring the motorhome back here....and get ready for the next one. I personally logged over 500 contacts on 75 phone.

Now if can go to sleep without hearing the "CQ CQ CQ Field Day" in my sleep

Another stations out the work W4E?

 

[rjohns86us]

Ok, I checked the log sheets and you were on three bands...I knew I had seen the call sign....we had five stations running continously for the 24 hours...loooks like probably 7500 points more or less....not shabby...but we sure were busy....and was fun....and you did indeed work w4e on psk....take care.

Ah, we didn't do 75m with our primary setup. Planned to do 80, but either water or broken wire killed the 80m traps on the inverted V dipole. We ended up doing our contacts on the EOC radios on 40, 20, 15, & 10. The folded dipole on the war wagon is good from 10m to 160m, so if you contacted us on 75, it was probably from someone on that radio. Primary people on it were Jacques, Jack, and Lee. Jacques' French accent would have given him away. Funny with the folding dipole, there were a lot of stations we could hear, but we couldn't raise a response to our CQ's. Wish I had a way to talk my apartment complex to letting me put one up. think I'm going to go with the Ironhouse Hamstick dipole config for now. Just need to build a base so i can get some distance between the antennas & the building.

Know we had 85 contacts on CW, over 80 on PSK, and 5 via satellite. Don't remember the phone count. Visitor count was a lot lower than we hoped with the number of flyers that were hung up, but we did have 3 hams come by and sign up to be part of ARES.

One of the benefits of working out of an EOC, only stuff that had to be torn down and stowed was the war wagon antennas.

 

[linuxgeek]

Cool. Still waiting to see where our points pan out to. We used an computer program to log, so weeding dups will be a fairly easy job once the all data files are on one machine.

Oh, if you can get a copy of what the news media ran on youall's setup, see if you can a copy and a signed release and send it to the ARRL. Apparently, decent news stories on hams & Field Day are rare enough on TV news that the ARRL very interested in having copies of whatever was broadcast.

We are still doing a happy dance over ours. Talking to a couple of the guys today, the news outlet (24 hour local news, 30 min cycle time) which visited us apparenly continued alternating between the 1 min & 2 min versions of the story somewhere between 12 to 15 hours starting at 1800 Sunday. We couldn't have paid for better face time.

Ok, I checked the log sheets and you were on three bands...I knew I had seen the call sign....we had five stations running continously for the 24 hours...loooks like probably 7500 points more or less....not shabby...but we sure were busy....and was fun....and you did indeed work w4e on psk....take care.

 

[rjohns86us]

A little correction...we had you on two bands...voice on two and the PSK contacts.

Yes, articles and a copy of the video will be sent in to ARRL....who knows, they might even use some of it.. Susan, AF4FO, has promised to take care of that....

Sounds like you folks also got good media coverage...and it's good to get the word out...makes getting support for projects a lot easier if nothing else.. Our new communications vehicle was featured in one story the local paper ran in today's edition. We just completed building a new emergency communications truck...on a Pinzgauer (sp?) surplus radio van body...

Ok, enough. my ears have quit buzzing and I am going to get some sleep

Cool. Still waiting to see where our points pan out to. We used an computer program to log, so weeding dups will be a fairly easy job once the all data files are on one machine.

Oh, if you can get a copy of what the news media ran on youall's setup, see if you can a copy and a signed release and send it to the ARRL. Apparently, decent news stories on hams & Field Day are rare enough on TV news that the ARRL very interested in having copies of whatever was broadcast.

We are still doing a happy dance over ours. Talking to a couple of the guys today, the news outlet (24 hour local news, 30 min cycle time) which visited us apparenly continued alternating between the 1 min & 2 min versions of the story somewhere between 12 to 15 hours starting at 1800 Sunday. We couldn't have paid for better face time.

 

[linuxgeek]

Marlon Brando AKA Martin Brandeaux, silent key.

KE6PZH - US call
F05GJ - Polynesian call

 

[Lady Christabel]

Some famous amateur radio operators:

Joe Walsh
King of Jordan
King of Thailand
King of Spain
King of Morocco
Rajiv Gandhi sk
George Pataki
Barry Goldwater sk
Burl Ives sk
Walter Cronkite
Patty Loveless
Garry Shandling
Chuck Yeager
Joe Rudi
Hugh Downs
Priscilla Presley
Chet Atkins sk
Ronny Milsap
Lance Bass
Leo Fender sk
Cardinal Roger Mahoney
John Huston sk
Shari Belafonte
Arthur Godfrey sk
Manny Moto

and a fuckton of astronauts

 

[curious2c]

Brings back memories, this whole thread does.
My father was an amatuer radio operator. He started in the twenties, and grew with it. Towards the end of his life he still had a small setup, listened in on 10 meter and 6 meter bands, and talked to people around the world. I always wanted to get my liscence, but code was my failing point. Perhaps my hard hearing was a part of it, but for whatever reason, I could never get past the code. I could send 45 words a minute, but recieving...heh...well anything over oh...say...two words was too much.

My dad's setup was built from the ground up by his hands. Heathkit had a small part in it as he got a VFO tuner kit from them and built it. Mostly though he got prints and fabricated his own rigs. Not sure how much that is done nowdays with the digital chip taking over the way it has.

I miss hearing him CQing around at night. Good memories of great times spent with my father.

 

[linuxgeek]

The Tech level license does not require code, only a written exam. Depending on what changes the FCC makes in the next few months, it may not be required for any of the licenses. Currently, it is only required to received the General level license. The same code requirement of 5 words a minute is used for the Extra level, so you only have to do the one code test.

Depending on your type of hearing loss, maybe the group you test with can change the pitch on the code tone or allow you to use headphones so you can crank up the volume. If it is translating the code to letters, there are suppose to be some good programs for learing it. As I find them, I'll post them. Even though I passed the code requirement back in the late '80's, I don't really remember it. So I'm looking for a good way to relearn it.

Brings back memories, this whole thread does.
My father was an amatuer radio operator. He started in the twenties, and grew with it. Towards the end of his life he still had a small setup, listened in on 10 meter and 6 meter bands, and talked to people around the world. I always wanted to get my liscence, but code was my failing point. Perhaps my hard hearing was a part of it, but for whatever reason, I could never get past the code. I could send 45 words a minute, but recieving...heh...well anything over oh...say...two words was too much.

My dad's setup was built from the ground up by his hands. Heathkit had a small part in it as he got a VFO tuner kit from them and built it. Mostly though he got prints and fabricated his own rigs. Not sure how much that is done nowdays with the digital chip taking over the way it has.

I miss hearing him CQing around at night. Good memories of great times spent with my father.

 

[curious2c]

Hmmm...I wonder, do they still have Amatuer Extra Class liscense?

 

[linuxgeek]

As it stands currently, the license classes are Tech, General, and Extra.

When you reach the same license class as your Dad was, you can see about requesting his call as a vanity call as long as it hasn't been reassigned.

Hmmm...I wonder, do they still have Amatuer Extra Class liscense?

 

[curious2c]

Okay. My dad had his extra class. I remember him linking in with OSCAR (1) and doing some slowscan stuff. He also used to know quite a few of the ARRL people personally. (The editors of the magazine and the President/vice president and I believe a few others in the national office. ) They used to talk all the time at night.

I guess I could get back into it again. I know I could afford some things now that I couldn't way back when I was really into it. Not sure my present physical location with the rock next to my house will be any good, but I could work on that. Something to think about.

 

[linuxgeek]

Rock as in mountain?

Okay. My dad had his extra class. I remember him linking in with OSCAR (1) and doing some slowscan stuff. He also used to know quite a few of the ARRL people personally. (The editors of the magazine and the President/vice president and I believe a few others in the national office. ) They used to talk all the time at night.

I guess I could get back into it again. I know I could afford some things now that I couldn't way back when I was really into it. Not sure my present physical location with the rock next to my house will be any good, but I could work on that. Something to think about.

 

[curious2c]

Rock as in mountain?

Yeah, my house is setting in a spot blasted out of the north side of a solid rock mountain. I'd need about three hundred foot of antenna to get over it. If I owned the lots behind me I could build right on top though...hmmm...maybe...

 

[linuxgeek]

If you can get some good coax/hardline to feed out to it, puting a small tower on top would probably be ideal. Wouldn't have to worry about windload if you only need to put up 5 or 10 feet of mast/tower.

Oh, and depending on what kind of funds you have to play with, with the top of a mountain to put an antenna on, could consider putting up a repeater for 2m, 70cm, or 6m.

Yeah, my house is setting in a spot blasted out of the north side of a solid rock mountain. I'd need about three hundred foot of antenna to get over it. If I owned the lots behind me I could build right on top though...hmmm...maybe...