CQ CQ --calling all amateur radio operators!!

[Snorlax]

Hi...
Every 5 years or so, I put out a CQ to see which forum members are licensed radio amateurs.

I'LL START:

N9EJR--EXTRA CLASS--ACTIVE ON HF AGAIN AFTER 25 OR SO YEARS OFF HF.
JUST WORKED ARGENTINA FROM INDIANAPOLIS ON 20 CW TONIGHT!!

Looking forward to checking out the new digital modes on my new-to-me but classic Kenwood TS-690S--will have to get outboard converters.
I LOVE CW!!
73 de N9EJR Jim

[highpitch]

W7TFO Dennis.

AM only.

73DG

[John Lebens]

WB0SVV--General--inactive.

[Snorlax]

Dennis,
Did I see your name & call mentioned in the Hammarlund forum on FB?
I'm a Hammarlund collector.
Jim N9EJR

[highpitch]

Possibly...I've never posted anything on FB. My 'collection starts with the Comet Pro, and ends with the post-war SP-400 model. Also HQ-120 & 129.

Altogether around 20 specimens, including the '36 SP-10. A Hi-Q is around here somewhere, too.

I'm more into BC transmitter rescues now, a link to my most recent:

https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?thr...-wagon.606791/

I'm known for parts for these as well.

73DG

[RandyL]

Just now seeing this thread.

I'm WS4C. Licensed as WN8ODW in 1972, upgraded to Amateur Extra and this callsign in about 1983 or 84. Main interest is low-cost DXing with an old TenTec Paragon and low dipoles of various kinds. Currently have just a couple of garage-attic dipoles (20 and 15). This summer I put up a 30-foot mast for a 30m inverted vee in hopes of working the Baker Island expedition for my DXCC #300. Yes, I might work them on 15 or 20, but with the lower power limit on 30, I felt my chances for success were better there. Succeeded late in the night hours before leaving on vacation the next day, so it was pretty much a last-minute catch--and it was on 30. Back when I was younger and didn't QSL seriously, I worked 9N1MM (Father Moran in Nepal) and never got a confirmation. I've learned that those logs have since been destroyed and no confirmation is possible. So I must work another new one to get 300 confirmed. The Mayotte expedition that ended just today never put in a strong enough signal at my QTH that I could work them. Their statistics show that less than 8% of their QSOs were with North America, so I don't feel too badly. One of these days, another new one will come along and I'll get to 300 yet. I hope.

Randy

[John Morgan]

Talk about reading something and not having a clue about what I just read. I am beginning to think I know little about amateur radio operators.

Personally, I am going to shortly get back to KBSCK with a longer 96-BXP so that my 78HYU will fit and send the '86-'87 quarking doodle to YH589. That should work.

[highpitch]

John, that would qualify you for a ham license nowadays. Almost.

73DG

[RandyL]

Now, John, you know how euphonium talk sounds to outsiders!

Randy

[JBegler]

Hi, wow, this thread has been idle for a few years. I guess I will add my info and move it back up. I am KD0GHB. I am a general license, been an amateur operator since about 2008. I am the president of our area club, the Ellis County Ham Operators or E.C.H.O. We have about 15 regular active members in our club and we have a repeater on an older commercial 190 Ft tower on top of a great hill, gives us pretty good coverage out here on the western Kansas plains. Personally , I have a 40 ft free standing aluminum tower with a tank of a 5/8 wave Cb antenna ( yes, I dabble in that band too) , it also supports a homemade copper j-pole for my 2 meter and a homemade wire dipole for HF. For my radios in the shack, I use a yaesu FT-2800 2 meter and a Kenwood TS 480AT to do HF work. To tune the dipole, I have an MFJ 986 tuner that gets me a 1.5 -1 on the bands I work.

Have to say it’s been a fun hobby, have learned a lot but have much more to go.

[Snorlax]

KD0GHB de N9EJR...
Nice to meet you and welcome to the forum.
Sunspot numbers are rising and things are perking up on my favorite band--10 meters.
I've got an Antron A-99 that I'm waiting to raise up and use on 10, 12, and 15, and I'll
soon assemble a Moxon for 6 meters.
Quite intelligent of me to wait for winter to do this when I've had the antennas since May or June.
73 de N9EJR Jim

[JBegler]

I haven’t done much on 10, 12 or 15 yet. The 5/8 vertical I have tuned at 11 meter should let me use my antenna tuner and work at least 10 and 12. That sunspot increase is good news, makes HF quite a fun experience. I don’t envy you working on antennas in winter but you might get a few warm days, anything is possible. I can’t do much antenna work myself, lost my left leg above the knee in 2015, so I have a few ham buddies that come help with things if I need them. Bunch of good guys. I do have a 6 meter ringo I want to get up and see if it’s as magical as a buddy claims it is.

Have fun on the bands
John
KD0GHB

[TedZateslo]

Just noticed this thread... I'm W1XO. Been licensed since I was 14 in 1970 (WN4TCD). I like CW, especially on the low bands. I'm trying to get a better receive antenna set up for 160 meters. I've been involved in emergency work in the past, and now that I'm retired, I plan to get back into that.

Snorlax, I own an SP-600 that I restored many years ago, and a few years ago I restored a Comet Pro that belongs to my old university, at their observatory (it was used back in the day for receiving time signals).

73,
Ted, W1XO

[tokuno]

General, KA2BAH - was still playing mostly tuba when I registered this sign.
Pulled the study materials for Extra, but have shifted to picking up a bit of Japanese in anticipation of a trip to Oki next year (son's posted there).

[Snorlax]

Glad to see a few more hams here--thanks to all who posted!
Look for me on 10 meters around 28050 for CW and 28410 for
SSB. Sorry...no FT8 ;-)
73 de N9EJR