[K3PZN-List] De-Lurk
Andy Leeds
wo3l at comcast.net
Tue Mar 16 19:01:44 EDT 2010
Welcome to the area. We're always happy to have new members.
Field Day plans are coming together, the April meeting should have some
information for everyone.
Things not mentioned so far: Club station has 3 HF positions, plus 6m 2M
and 70cm. PC's setup for rig control and digital modes.
The club has 3 repeaters 145.10, 449.875, and 53.09 in Westminster and
147.285 in Sykesville.
WO3L Andy
On 3/16/2010 12:37, Emileigh Starbrook wrote:
> Greetings Everyone,
>
> I am going to be moving from California to Westminster sometime during
> late April/early May and thought I would subscribe to the list to get
> a feeling for the activities in the club. I plan on joining the club
> at either the May or June meeting.
>
> We will be living on the southwest side of Westminster in an area
> known as Sharon's Ridge. It looked like a good location for a ham
> since it has some elevation and the property size is quite good. It
> has some very nice tall trees, and most likely I will put up an 80M
> inverted L or dipole depending on the slope.
>
> It will be a big change for me (currently living in a condo.) I'm used
> to having to go to a park with a giant deep cycle battery and throw
> big sinkers up into trees to raise a 20M dipole. Not that this has
> been bad - it is always great to get on the air and regularly work
> across the pacific into JA, VK and ZL , into eastern Europe and down
> into South America and the Carribean. The dipole tunes really well on
> 17/15/12 and 10.
>
> I would very much like to participate in Field Day with CCARC and can
> bring equipment with me. I have an Icom 746 Pro and an Icom 910
> (sorry, no 1.2G module though). I also have portable satellite
> equiment for VHF/UHF and S-Band, though I will have to dust them off
> having not used them for about 3 years.
>
> In the past with the San Mateo Radio Club (W6UQ) where I worked sat,
> 6M/2M, and 70cm SSB. I was also part of the Iron Man crew that did
> the overnight operation on 20/40/80/160 meters. We used 80m V-Beams
> pointing east. In addition I have done PSK/RTTY/SSTV and Hellscriber.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Emily N1DID
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