Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Posted on 05/11/2008 1:03:02 PM PDT by steveo
C.Q. C.Q. all ham radio operators, short wave listeners, public service monitors and anyone interested in the subject. I’m announcing my wish to revive the Ham Radio ping list.
A lost Freeper (Denver Ditdat) had the list at one time, but with his absence for almost two years, and his freepmail to me that he had lost most of the original list, I think that the ping list should be built again.
There is a large population of Freepers who are hams. My wish in resurrecting this ping list is to once again bring news pertaining to all FReepers, hams and those that want to be.
I started in ham radio due to my exposure in c.b. radio back in the early 70’s. I thought at the time being able to talk across the country and beyond borders by speaking into a radio pretty cool. My father in law was a ham and nurtured my interest in radio some 20-yrs ago. He talked some on the radio but his main interest was communicating in Morse code. I hated having to learn the code. I find copying code a nice mental exercise now. Morse code is no longer a requirement for a license by the way…
After getting licensed (pretty easy nowadays) I was talking to people across the county and when conditions permitted across the oceans. Most long distance communications (DX) use English
There are many different interests that one can pursue with the hobby. If you can imagine using radio to accomplish any communication task, then there are probably hundreds if not thousands of like minded people dedicated to doing the same.
The primary function is however based in the public service. If anything bad happens, hams will be ready to provide communications in and out of a disaster area. A secondary (some would call it a primary function) is to promote research or invention in every discipline of the radio art.
Hey my, is this up your alley?
If you wish to be in future pings please mail me and I'll add you to the list. Again if anyone wants to take this over you have my best wishes. I just want to see the list active again.
73 steve
K6BZ
Thanks.. I am W4EX (top of the honor roll in DXCC)
Now residing in Slovakia.
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I’m impressed! How many years did it take you? Thanks for responding!
Please add me.....
Can you play dungeons and dragons over ham radio?
Add me to the pinglist, I’m not a Ham, I do enjoy digital scanners and old radios though.
I’m sure someone out there is doing so. Not a stretch of the imagination geek wise...
Add me please.
Add me as well.
73
I started in 1958. I quit around the late 80s when a tragic fire destroyed everything. I was in “top of the honor roll” but never got back into DX. I was K4ZKZ at that time.
It was a few years later when my mentor, Claude Bass, a blind man, died.
His wife asked if I would take his call sign.
Claude was an amazing man. He was a TV engineer at WMC, but fell into a transmitter and blinded in the 50s.
Despite being blind, he could still build fine equipment.
His 4-1000 amplifiers were second to none, and he stayed on top of the list as the number one DX chaser in the world.
Roger that.
You’d think with all the good done by amateur radio operators, including for the military, this thread wouldn’t be in the chat forum. Yet threads like, “The sexiest woman alive” and other garbage remain in the news forum.
Pls add me also - 73 -— AF5LO
KC8OUX
Please add me as well...
Oh yes, add me.
73s...
Add me, too.
Well, when I returned to Slovakia in 2005, I was telling a Slovak about Harry (Ok3EA) HE KNEW WHO HE WAS !!! He was this guys doctor for his children in the 60s.
To make a long story short, I was driven to a hospital where Harry was being kept.
He was in very bad shape, but his mind was still alive.
He had to be helped to sit in bed with a table, and could not hold his head up.
When I told him that he was as famous as DU7SV (Philippina DX ham) He replied, “oh yea..Philippina guy”
It was a nice visit but Harry died two days later. Almost 50 years since we met.
Sign me up Steveo
Yup. I just ordered a fully digital computer controlled short wave yesterday.
Sign me up too, please.
Please add me to your list
Please add me as well -
73 de Steve KA6S
Toss me on the pile.
Please add me as well. No license for me but I have 5 scanners and two base antenna’s. If nights like last night when weather spotters get activated the first channels I hit are the local Ham Bands. You find out info locally a lot more faster especially funnel cloud spots. If I lived in tornado alley I would consider a scanner a must have. Where I live though it’s just good a good thing to have just in case :>}
Add me, please.
Plz add me to ur list.THX es 73
Add me to the list. Thanks.
73 from KS4RY. Please add me to the ping list. Thanks!
}:-)4
I personally think that SWL’s and scanner listeners can make as good or better than the usual ham. After all, we go by that golden rule - we mostly listen, and perhaps catch so much the others miss*.
My Technician test was fairly easy because of what I’d picked up on by listening for so many years. The General is next, and it won’t be too bad for the same reasons. (I dunno about the Extra, though).
*I know some of the minefields, such as 14.275 or 3.843. :)
ping
Congrats...You must really be infected.
I finally began fooling around with a make shift outdoor antenna system on at my home. A purist would cringe but it's highly functional :>} A fringe area TV antenna elements mounted inverted so they point up and down. Next came the TV signal amp with 20 db gain. I run two scanners on it and use a splitter to stop feedback issues. That ones my toy but I keep the locals on a discone also running two scanners same type hookup.
One of the funnies things I heard happened one August on the 45MHZ Public Safety band. Skip rolled in and I heard "This is a nation wide alert" followed by a B.O.L.O. describing a lady then in the middle it stopped. A small nearby town from me had two on duty cops. They were accusing each other of playing a prank. I finally called them and told the guy in the office it was Skip that did it. He asked Who's he? LOL
Please add me to the ping list... I was on Denver Didat’s old one and I miss seeing his posts.
73 DE KD4JUX
Please add me to the ping list
Jack
Ahhhh, whaddya they know? You made a horizontal into a vertical and saved a lot of bucks. Bob Grove (of Monitoring Times) has been selling converted TV antennas for years.
I can believe them not knowing who "Skip" is. Last night amid all the storm traffic I couldn't help but again marvel at so many so-called professionals who began talking before keying the mic, and had to repeat themselves, and more than once (and it's in general, not in excited moments).
Please add me to your list, Steveo. General Class ham here.
73’s.
Yeah, I’m in Mid-Tenn, grid square EM65.
Sounds like you have, or had, a dream site. I’m on a hill, (no doubt nowhere near what I suspect is your elevation), but the terrain is strange. Move a foot one way or the other and you’ll get or lose most of the targets you want to hear. But of course there’s more than enough Alabama traffic to go around since you don’t live there. :)
I used to subscribe to MT back in the late ‘80’s to early ‘90’s. After a while it got boring from what seemed repetitious so I dropped it. It was always better than “Pop Comm”, though.
I'll look at a MT in a book store. If it's about local areas or has something interesting I buy it.
Tnx steveo fer reviving the list. Pls add.
73!
Please add me to your list (KG4JDR)
Won't put my call on the open forum and I'd suggest others don't (or at most very infrequently). The public database has enough personal info to steal ID.
I was a somewhat notorious packet radio BBS operator throughout the ‘90s, ran the RLI code. A lot of the Europeans didn't like me because I took delight in making my political views known. At the time they seemed very afraid of that.
One question:
Is it monitored and how often?
Please add me to the list as well.
I am not a ham, but Mr G is. Please add me to your list.
Anyone going to Dayton ?
http://www.hamvention.org
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