[SBhams] New to the List....

[Don Saunders]

Good Morning All,

Permit me to introduce myself.  My name is Donald J. *Buck*  Saunders.  I
live in Shreveport and have been
a licensed Ham Op since 1981.  I love all modes of communication, even
verbal, LOL!

At present, I am waiting for some re-modeling of our home and I will be
moving my *shack* to a much larger
room, one with a 240 vac circuit to hook up my Heathkit SB-220 amp.  After
that, hopefully the wx will
have cooled enough for me to re-hang some of my antennas in the back yard
and add some new ones.

My main interest in ham radio is 160, 75, 40, 17, 12, 10, 6, 2, and 70 cm.
I am also an avid SWL , VLF,and
scanner monitor.  I am continually adding agencies, business, and all ham
repeaters to several WIN Excel
spreadsheets.

I would like to be able to find someone who knows something about the
different Linux distributions and
help me set-up an exclusive Linux O/S computer and server to run our other
computers from.

You may have seen my white Ford F-150  in the area with a huge pipe *
headache* antenna platform, with a
lot of antennas on it.  Well, I'm re-designing it so that it will go from
the front bumper back to the rear
bumper and have cross-sections to allow for other antennas to be installed
in-between the bed stake holes,
in front of the hood and behind the rear tailgate.  (;-).  It can also serve
as a ladder rack when I need to tote
one.  You'll all see me around town when I'm finished, hehehehehe.

I'm *medically retired* and my traveling and work @round the house is
limited by my illnesses, but I love
to chat and build ham and scanner antennas.

When I'm on 2, you will find me mostly on the 146.67/07 ARCOS repeater, on
HF, you'll find me either on
28.345 ssb or 29.6 fm.

Rigs:   Icom 706MkII-G, R$ HTX-10, R$ HTX-100, R$ HTX-245, Heathkit 2036 2m
FM, Heathkit SB-220
amp.

Antennas:   135' long-wire, 8' off the ground, 2m/70cm J-pole.

Coming Soon: 75m *Double bazooka*, 40 meter loop, 10m 5/8ths-wave vertical
collinear for FM, 4-element
6m yagi, 6m FM ground plane, 24' wooden, long boom 2 meter quagi,  stacked
2m Halos, 4 bay, stacked
70cm Halos.  Various antennas for scanner monitoring from low-band FM
(30-50mcs) all the way to 1.3ghz.

Mobile antennas: 2m FM, 6m steel whip, ball, & spring mount, 3'
center-loaded 1om whip, 4' fiberglass 10m
fm whip, a motorized screwdriver antenna of some type (later), different
scanner band antennas.

Well, that's it.  Questions? , comments?  Brickbats?  LOL!

Any and all e-mauls aka. *flames* will be promptly extinguished by Companies
7, 8, and 10 of the Shreveport
Fire Department...Shreveport's *Finest*.

Respectfully submitted,
73,

Don/KA5-LQJ