MISSING CHILD!!!

HELP NEEDED FINDING THIS LITTLE GIRL!  THIS IS LITTLE ELAINA 18 MONTHS OLD, SHE HAS BEEN MISSING ABOUT 19 DAYS.

U. K. AMATUER RADIO

Lately I have been more and more activity by the U.K. In my opinion they seem to be more involved in Amateur Radio than Americans or they like to publicize and talk about it a lot more than American Hams. For example AMSAT-UK is updated regularly plus for members can read the newsletter. I know AMSAT in the U.S. had problems with  hackers and were down for a long time. The newsletter they sent was bi-monthly with material I had already read on AMSAT-UK. Online there are numerous websites I have found very helpful from the U. K. However no one can out shine K7AGE's YouTube site! I have nick named him every ones " ELMER" he has many "How To" video's. Randy, K7AGE can also be found on Twitter.
Back to the U.K. I have always been a fan and on my bucket list to visit London. In my earlier years of operating I had a mini-quad and a TS-430S and was quite excited to be able to carry out a QSO on phone with a gentleman from the U.K. Back then band conditions were not the greatest and I was very lucky to make a QSO out of the U.S.

FIELD DAY WEEKEND STARTS TOMORROW ! I WILL BE OPERATING ON 20 METERS PHONE UNDER THE CALL W8HHF THE RADIO CLUB CALL SIGN WHERE I BELONG. I WILL BE OPERATING THE NIGHT STARTING ABOUT 11 P.M. EST.

GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE AND BE SAFE !

73'S

 

FIRST CONTACT !

I decided to come down here into the ham shack to program the memory channels I had saved in my computer. After successfully getting all that done I decided to search around for a special event station, another sub hobby of mine in ham radio. While searching the bands 20 meters was not the greatest so I moved to 40 meters. I came across two gentleman rag chewing or so I thought! To my surprise one of the gentleman was a guest operator at A.R.R.L. H.Q. station W1AW ! WHAT A FIND! A FIRST FOR ME! I have been licensed since fall of 1982 and this was the first time I had EVER came across a guest operator at W1AW ! The excitement and adrenaline started flowing with the hopes of  getting that qso from W1AW and qsl them hard copy of course ! The other gentleman was kind of elderly and I think he just wanted someone to talk to. Finally my turn came---- I thought for sure there would be a pile up of sorts and had myself prepared to battle the pile up. I was wrong I made it through no problem except for the band conditions. I received a 55 signal report but who's complaining? I actually was in a qso with a fellow ham at ARRL  HQ !

I think he was as excited as I was, he was telling me about all the new equipment there and the place was very well equipped. After completing the qso and very carefully logging all the needed info, I sat and thought about how nice it would be to travel there to tour the place and be a guest operator. Hopefully someday that pipe dream may come true !

73's

Mike/N8GBU

ARROW Communication Association

I recently came across this website while looking for additional frequencies to program into my H.T. as I have been frequently traveling the Ann Arbor Michigan area. This site has lots of good reading and Helpful links!

73’s

ARROW Communication Association

Amateur Radio Repeaters

I wanted to share this webpage I found. It is from AC6V and is loaded with all kinds of information. I needed repeater offsets for the different bands. My Yaesu VX7R is a 4 band radio and recently decided to program it. I have never used repeaters on 220, 440 and 6 meters. Needless to say the offsets are very different and also a lot of the repeaters are on PL.

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Amateur Radio Repeaters

UNSETTLED WEATHER!

I was going to go to the Fulton County Hamfest today but that's not going to happen. We had thunderstorms and rain all night and the weather man promising more on the way.  The radio club that has this event is the club that had the exam session in which I upgraded to Extra Class. They have a great bunch of guys there and I was looking forward to possibly seeing some of them again. Checking the "Space Weather" or propagation outlook for today doesn't look very promising either, just an overall bad day for ham radio!