CQ CQ CQ - Who's out there?

Currently inactive, but hey you never know…
It’s PE1NAC.

73’s

Live from Studio 1 Bravo at The Garrison, this is N2KI!

Hello all!

Catch you on the air!

Anthony

Hello, i’m EA5ZF, Xavi in Spain
At this time only active in VHF and UHF, HF only used in RX, main EME antennas are down, now only small yagis os verticals.
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Hi folks

This is G4HDU - Barry, located just north of Liverpool UK. Mainly operating 2m/70 cm and 40M HF.

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Hello. K4KMG located in N Charleston SC and Vero Beach FL. (6 months in each) HF using my Omni 7

k4kmgweather.com

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Tom

Hi I’m Paul, live in Hertfordshire, currently active as M6SOE (since 2010 although ex bleep B2 Radio Tele Op and B2 Signaller, been messing about with radios since 1980’ish

Kl7IFP here running old RTTY gear. Model 28 ASR and KSR. Been around hambands since late 60"s

John

K3JAE,

QTH: Carroll County, TN.

Just moved from PA. Over the road truck driver and only have 2m, 70cm and 6m FM capabilities while mobile.

Work HF/UHF/VHF when at home QTH. Preferred bands: 20m (voice and PSK), 6m, occasional 40m.

Currently working only mobile and HT until can get tower raised and antennas placed at new home.

73’s

Hi

Here is VE2BYW in Qu

G’day guys, I finally took the steps to become an Amateur Radio Operator around 18 months ago.

The story is that I first got interested when I was around 16 years old back in the old CB days, and discovered a neighbour who was a Ham. Back in those days there was the morse code requirements to get a licence, and I never had the interest in learning morse, so never got any further than the interest.

A couple of years back I heard that the morse requirement was dropped, which then got me interested enough to go out and get my Foundation licence. Within the next 12 months I upgraded to my Advanced Licence (full call), so now I am VK4BLP.

As you know, I’m down in the South East corner of Queensland, which on a map is just north of the most easterly point of Australia.

Hi all - my call is G6NHK, but I’ve been inactive for at least 10 years because of work pressures etc. When I was active, I was heavily involved with packet radio, and I ran packet nodes on 70cms, 2m and 4m from my home in N Cambridgeshire.

However, I’m back on the air again now, and guess what ? I’ve just discovered APRS, which shows the GPS position of stations, and also allows for the transmission of weather information !

Yes, APRS is a bit of fun, check out aprs.fi and look up my call vk4blp-9 and you can see where I am when I’m driving around.

Still gotta lot of things to play with… currently vk4blp-5 is my weather on APRS.

My call is NA5AA and my QTH is in Granbury Texas. I’m active all most bands except for 160 and 6 meters and enjoy all the various digital modes like JT65, PSK31, RTTY, SSTV, and D-Star.

I have my own ICOM D-Star 440 repeater (W5HCT), as well a DV-Dongle, DVAP, IC-9100, 92AD and ID-31. I also have a Flex 3000 that I use exclusively for JT65, PSK, RTTY, SSTV. My antennas are a GAP Titan-DX vertical and a inverted V wire antenna up about 40 feet.

Hi
i am MM0KTC (IO85KT) based in Scotland.

Keith

Hi

I’m Steve AI9T. I’m fairly active on the radio. I enjoy chasing DX and RTTY contesting. My web site is www.ai9t.com. Take a look at it if you like.

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Steve AI9T

I was GM3GUC and ZC4BN, active in late 1940s/early 1950s, nothing since then.

La5nna here, from jo38ma , qrv from 160m-23cm… but curently my antennas are down :frowning: to mutch weather at the cost in the winter time.

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Eivind

I’m a “Boil in the Bag” M6 M6ICY

Inactive, due to the feeling that Ham is a bit dead. Loved my 10w, even getting from SE England to Montenegro! on HF, but sold my gear, my PC/“Toy” room has no outside wall so cabling has always been a problem in this house too :frowning:

Ham radio is far from dead. There are many new hams coming on the air all the time. There are new modes of operation like D-STAR which allows you to talk around the world on a HT or if there are no D-Star repeaters in your area, you can get a DV-Dongle or DVAP which can connect across the internet to other repeaters or Reflectors.

There is a live D-STAR broadcast on the internet right now at http://w5kub.com which is explaining all the different features of D-Star operations.

There are digital modes like JT65, or JT9 which allow you to make contacts around the world with 1 watt or even less depending on band conditions. There are other digital modes like PSK, RTTY, and many others. Computers can also play a big part in ham radio with Software Developed Radios (SDR) which control the actual radio hardware on systems like the Flex radios. Computers can do your logging, DX spotting, and more. The ham radio hobby is alive and growing, the reports of ham radios death are greatly exaggerated.

It’s not dead yet!

It sure isn’t as thriving as it once used to be, but there’s still quite a few of us around.

There’s plenty to choose from, as there’s more than just HF to play with, but VHF/UHF and microwave, and even as just mentioned D-Star.

For a bit of fun, I’ve just set up my own irlp node (6857) just yesterday.