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fortdixlover
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 Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:24 am Post subject: Question: any ham radio ops? |
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Question:
Any ham radio ops here? Perhaps interested in a net on 40 or 75 meters (shortwave)?
-- FDL
(a ham in more ways than one!) |
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JimRobson
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Location: Jacksonville FL
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:32 am Post subject: |
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Hi, I was when I was a teenager. Traffic handling on the nets, CW, RTTY, Air Force MARS, old call sign W3FAW from Pennsylvania. (50 years ago)
Now that I'm retired, maybe I'll try to get my ticket back. I wonder if you have a callbook, is my call sign still available?
I have appreciated your insites fortdixlover.
73's
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fortdixlover
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:16 am Post subject: |
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| JimRobson wrote: | Hi, I was when I was a teenager. Traffic handling on the nets, CW, RTTY, Air Force MARS, old call sign W3FAW from Pennsylvania. (50 years ago)
Now that I'm retired, maybe I'll try to get my ticket back. I wonder if you have a callbook, is my call sign still available?
I have appreciated your insites fortdixlover.
73's |
Hi Jim,
I operate CW or SSB on 30, 20 or 15m and 2M FM from my 'antenna restricted' locale (townhouse). Yes - that's thirty meters - 10.100-10.150 MHz !
I tried the the University of Arkansas at Little Rock's U.S. Amateur Radio Callsign Lookup Page (fed from the FCC databases) and found that W3FAW appears unused.
http://callsign.ualr.edu/callsign.shtml
Equipment has come a long way since you were active. Some is still U.S. made - like Ten Tec in Sevierville TN.
Big change is that you won't find any vacuum tubes anymore, except in some KW-level amplifiers....and some of them have gone solid state too!
Go for it! Lots of vets and interesting people of all sorts on the air at all hours.
It would be neat if we could get John O'Neill licensed and on the air. What a hoot he'd be to talk to! 
73,
FDL
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wjay
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Joined: 04 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:58 am Post subject: net |
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Please post the freq if ya'll get a net going. I would like to listen in -just a no-code tech here. Thanks!
Jay KE4VRM |
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USAFE5
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Location: Reno Nevada
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| Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:49 am Post subject: |
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Please pm me with more info for the hubby who is the radio guy here - n5mat
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