My Week in Radio
- wire down when i got home from vacation, so I got to throw it again
- threw it again with pulley and halyard: 42 ft
- built a T2LT flowerpot antenna on PVC pipe and pulled into a tree
- replaced a slim jim built from ladder line
Others
- KN3I, John:
- crowbar circuits to add to old power supplies to recover them
- W3MFB, Mike:
- testing some 10M radios to get them back in service
- W3KZG, Scott:
- working on some radios for 985-ers
- KC3RFG, Jim:
- repairing his fan dipole in good weather
- replaced balun
- trouble tuning it after reinstall
- check the coax and MFJ lightning surge protector: water infiltrated
- back in operation
- tested with rooster net on 75M
- repairing his fan dipole in good weather
- NA3CW, Chuck:
- AWA PMAM net, hosted pre-net and regular net, 13 check-ins.
- KD3EMS, Chris:
- providence, ri over the weekend with family stuff
- participated in 2 local nets
- providence, ri over the weekend with family stuff
- KA3GLI, Dave:
- starting echolink for upcoming travel
- WA3KFT, John:
- helped a friend take down a broken titan antenna
- KC3OOK, Bill:
- simplex net, and welfare net
- pulled power into the shack sub panel
- KB3ZIM, Bob:
- a little HF, chasing POTA activators
- got a QSL card in the mail from a POTA activator
- KD3AEL, Joey:
- new tech operator in Gap
- participating with W3RRR welfare net
Questions
- KD3AEL, Joey:
- When the repeater is quiet, how do you announce your presence on a repeater?
- KB3ZIM, Bob:
- “ listening”
- maybe a couple times
- operate, operate, operate
- KC3OOK, Bill:
- when you do call, wait a minute or 2 for people to get to the radio
- WA3VEE, Ron:
- don’t just hit and run, wait a few minutes
- NA3CW, Chuck:
- don’t hit and run, patience
- W3MFB, Mike:
- say your call nice and slow
- W3GMS, Joe:
- Welcome Joey
- check out the website
- find the round table as well
- get the audio gain up: swallow the mic
- WA3VEE, Ron:
- on qrz.com, add your email, so we can email you
- WA3KFT, John:
- get on the air and practice
- KD3AEL, Joey:
- Thank you for the warm welcome
- looking forward to getting outside with the radio
- WA3VEE, Ron:
- Preparing a talk for Pottstown: “Ham Radio Tall Tails, Old Wives Tails, Folklore, Myths, and Debunking Them” Share
- W8CRW, CR: “Ham radio, do people still do that?”
- W3KZG, Scott: “What’s the big antenna for? do you talk to aliens?”
- KB3ZIM, Bob: “All you need is a low SWR.”
- KD3AEL, Joey: “Ham radio, that’s just like CB?”
- KC3RFG, Jim: “A perfect 1:1 SWR means your antenna is resonant”
- W3MFB, Mike: Pottstown has lots of CB-ers switched to ham.
- “Are you a federal agent?”
- NA3CW, Chuck: “Ham radio is too expensive”
- WA3KFT, John: “What do you mean ‘dip the plate’?”
- NA3CW, Chuck: “this tiny HF antenna is just as good as a halfwave dipole”
- KD3EE, John: “This is the last HT I’m going to buy”
- KD3AEL, Joey: “Now that we have cell phones, there’s no need for radio”
- AF3Z, Jim: “They still use Morse Code?”
- W3KZG, Scott: “Ham radio people are preppers”