Ham radio net

[ezzpete]

here's a link to local HAM swap meets.

http://www.qsl.net/w6ier/ieswap.htm

is there a simplex freq. that everyone around here runs?

[Wrightwood]

Thanks Pete - I'll mark the dates on my calendar.

I miss the old General Dynamics swap meet in Cucamonga - It was getting similar to the TRW swap meet (just a  lot smaller)

[gus]

The dates they show are Sundays not Saturdays

[ezzpete]

yeah, those dates are for 2005. i'd call before going, just to make sure they still have them. HAM radio is kind of a dieing hobby.

the GD swap meet was really good. years ago i used to sell every month at all the local ham swaps, but they got to be kind of taken over by computer stuff. i haven't even gone to one for about 3 years, they may sell chinese toys by now.

[clint]

Ham radio a dieing hobby? That's funny. New licenses are at an all time high. New technologies like IRLP, PSK-31, ECHO Link, and APRS are generating interest in a whole new group of high tech hams that want to play around in digital modes. There is even a whole new category of didgital voice radio called D-Star.
And thanks to CERT trainings all over southern California people are getting a better understanding of Amateur Radios role in disaster communications.

[clint]

It's time to get the simplex net rejuvinated. We are going to move it to Monday nights instead of Thursday. Traffic Thursday evenings just makes it too hard to get home on time.  We will try to have one the monday after Thanksgiving. 19:00 hrs on 222.12 simplex with a PL of 100.0


I will be working a scipt for a standard format and will expect folks to take turns at being net control. Since we play the ARRL audio news in a very low taech manner (mic keyed near your computer speaker) I hope most folks will be able to take a turn.

[clint]

So....no one has commented on this. Any reason for me to race home tonight or not?

[RobertW]

So....no one has commented on this. Any reason for me to race home tonight or not?

19:00 hrs on 222.12 simplex with a PL of 100.0.  I got it!!

Oh, that's right, I'm not a HAM yet.   

Hiking with Toolman and finding out that he has radio contact even while down in the canyons where we hike in the Cabin Flat area, even using the Table Mountain repeater (Blue Ridge Repeater was down at the time) gives me added incentive...

[tiltronix]

Sorry Robert, my 1950s vintage 220 rig only runs AM.  Believe it or not, I tried FM in the 1950s and only found one ham who could properly demodulate the mode.  He had a super-regenerative detector on his tunable IF.

[tiltronix]

Yeah! License renewed 'til 2016. Now I should use it again!

[Wrightwood]

George,
Is the original on parchment paper ?     

[tiltronix]

No, a fig leaf!!