[SADXA] 2m repeater query

[Tom Kramer]

Hi Joe,
  Been hearing you off and on on 6m with your vertical, you seem to do 
pretty well.  I did put 145.63 into the radio so I will try that when I get 
down that way.  FB on the radio astronomy, a filed well beyond my abilities 
I am certain.
  I will relate a story here about you and me and Vanuatu.  When I was there 
last October, some of the group were gone on a safari to a nearby island to 
view a volcano so extra unused radios that morning.  I sat down at one and 
began listening to this very strong station on 10m and the more I heard, the 
more I was convinced it was someone from AZ.  Sure enough, it was you.  I 
tried to call you, but could not find a suitable antenna that was free.  In 
any event, you were 59+ that day at YJ0.
  A lot of 6m activity now mostly to the PNW who are working everybody else 
it seems.  Look for us at N5K on the DL79/89 grid line in about 2 weeks.  I 
agreed to go help them, just hope it was a good decision.  73 and thanks for 
the info.  Tom NQ7R
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Desert Woodworker" <desert_woodworker at yahoo.com>
To: "Southern AZ DX Association E-Mail Reflector" <sadxa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [SADXA] 2m repeater query


Howdy, Tom,

I only regularly (and seldom, at that) listen or talk on the
EAARS 2m set of repeaters. I don't hear John's repeater
directly, because there is a lump of terrain in the way of
any direct signal, several hundred feet high (but I can get
in through a related repeater that has some offset Southwards
geographically from the geo-obstruction that affects my QTH).

But I don't work much VHF/UHF, being HF-centered, in terms
of interest and activity for DXCC, etc., and general operating.
Working my way through the spectrum, perhaps: maybe someday
I'll be interested in 2m and above, and get up there. ;-)

Funny, because in one of my careers, in Radio Astronomy, all
I worked for 10 years was 115.271 GHz, or 2.6 millimeters. Of
course, all that was on the fantastically sensitive RX end, not
TX. We were not bending ET's ear, but mapping the Milky Way.


Nonetheless, a simplex freq used by some of the DX-ers here is
very valuable, and friendly: I can recommend 145.630 "Mertz".


All best, and,


w/ Cheers,


and best 73, gud DX,

--Joe, W7DXW / DM42mg



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