[NCham] Re: Greetings fellow North Carolina Hams!

[Greg Mijal]

Hi Ron:
Pleased to meet you. I collect older radios too but mostly from the 50's 
60's and 70's and a few WW2 things.
Not a whole lot but I do try to keep them running. I'm currently trying to 
finish up a Hammarlund SP 600/CV 591A ssb converter that I picked up in 
Feenix just before I left two months ago.  I'm running a Collins S line in 
the shack with a Swan MK2 amplifier. Antenna is a center fed zepp via a 
NyeViking MBVA tuner.  For modern stuff I have an IC 756 and FT 7800 vhf/uhf 
fm rig and a uniden bct8 superscanner.  Local vhf/uhf traffic is virtually 
nil.  Some uhf from Greenville but that's all.
If your disappointed with HF you might want to consider cw operations which 
requires alot more cooperation between the operators involved.  Sort of like 
a two person bicycle. PSK is fun too. I used to get imtimidated by the big 
guns on 20 m but seem to have out grown it or something.  Nets are also a 
way to get a bit more comfortable with all the new faces and changing band 
conditions.
It seems like North Carolina is on the quiet side for amateur radio and I'm 
hoping it is just the vacation season that is causing it.  Lots of hamfests 
out this way though.
Will look at your website tonight.
73's
Greg
WA7LYO
Kinston NC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Lawrence KC4YOY" <kc4yoy at carolina.rr.com>
To: "North Carolina Ham Radio" <ncham at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: [NCham] Re: Greetings fellow North Carolina Hams!


> Welcome to the Old North State.
> I agree with the others, 122 F in Feenix
> is NOTHING like 98 here in July or August.
> Get ready to sweat...
>
> This is my first posting to the group, I always
> wondered why it almost never got used.
>
> I live about 20 miles SE of Charlotte in Union County.
>
> Besides ham radio my primary interest is collecting
> antique radios. I've been actively collecting for
> more that 37 years. If anyone is interested you are invited
> to visit my radio collection web pages at,
> http://radioheaven.homestead.com/
>
> I've been a ham for 16 years and just upgraded to General.
> I'm active on our local UHF and 6 meter repeaters here
> in Union County. I have a TS-520s feeding a G5RV for HF,
> but I'm kinda disappointed with HF, my radio works fine and
> have talked all over the world, but I've really gotten sick of
> the pissing contests on HF.
> "You can't talk here, this is our freq."
> "You're not respectable if you don't run an big amp", etc ,etc...
>
> 73, Ron kc4yoy
>
>
>
>
>
>>>
>>> The transition from desert (N. Mexico) to the south is 
>>> ...mmmmhhhh...interesting!  Like Phoenix, you'll learn to hibernate 
>>> indoors during some of the year (like from July through early Sept!).
>>>
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