[MEham] Moving to Aroostook County

[Mark Cobbeldick [KB4CVN]]

Hi Harold,
Thanks for the info.   :o) 

The YL and I have been considering moving up since 1989.  We just
returned from a family member's wedding up in Littleton (4m N of
Houlton) and that cinched it.  We are moving !!!

Now the hard part; Jobs.



>From the repeater directories I have seen, it looks like most of the
simplex/repeater traffic is on two-meters.  Is that a fairly good
assessment?  COMMENTS ANYONE?


Active on 160m (cw/am/ssb) through 921 MHz (fm).  
Real heavy into 10m-FM dx.  
But mostly use 70cm for local comms and chit-chat with the YL.  

If my guess is correct, I will need to scrounge up some more 2m mobile
gear prior to the move, since 70cm appears nil in the north-end.



PACKET: 

Never got too interested in the mode. (Too close the the mobile data
stuff I delt with at work.)  HOWEVER, this could be subject to change
once I move.   Got the PC's.  Got the radio gear.  ...And one of my
cohorts down here is 'Buck' Rogers [K4APT] who runs the SEDAN network.
<http://www.sedan.org/>  Buck manufactures and sells the 'RASCAL GLX'
TNC's.  So I can purchase all the packet TNC goodies I would need prior
to the move up.

The digital mode I have been interested in tinkering with is SITOR-B. 
This same interface Buck sells will also support that mode with the
correct software, which I found last winter.


73,
Mark C.   KB4CVN
<http://www.qrz.com/callsign/KB4CVN>







--- Harold Hartley <vzeqqgj8 at verizon.net> wrote:

> They do have a linked repeater system in Maine that reachs up to
> around the Houlton area which the repeater in Lincoln, Maine 
> is on the link and some can reach it from Houlton area.
> As for packet in Northern Maine, that you can forget about unless 
> someone has a node up somewhere that I do not know about.
> 
> Harold Hartley
> 158 Russell St.
> Lewiston, Maine 04240
> IP Coodinator for amateur Radio in Maine.
> vzeqqgj8 at verizon.net


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