C.Q. C.Q. All Freeper hams.

self ^ | 5-11-08 | Steveo (me)

[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.

[AlexW]

I forgot to mention a really interesting story...
When I first came to Slovakia in 2002, I looked up people that were in the radio business.
I found a guy in the small town where I was staying.
He was in the two-way radio business, as I had been, but he was also a ham.
He showed me the CZ/SK version of QST.
There was a story about OK3EA/OM3EA, the most well known ham in Slovakia.
I mentioned that he had been my first OK QSO in 1959.

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.

[mylife]

Sign me up Steveo

[mylife]

Yup. I just ordered a fully digital computer controlled short wave yesterday.

[theBuckwheat]

Sign me up too, please.

[firewalk]

Please add me to your list

[fremont_steve]

Please add me as well -

73 de Steve KA6S

[CodeToad]

Toss me on the pile.

[cva66snipe]

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 :>}

[Fresh Wind]

Add me, please.

[Liberal Bob]

Plz add me to ur list.THX es 73

[JoJo Gunn]

If you wish to be in future pings please mail me and I'll add you to the list.

Add me to the list. Thanks. 

[Moose4]

73 from KS4RY. Please add me to the ping list. Thanks!

}:-)4

[JoJo Gunn]

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. :)

[kalee]

ping

[TASMANIANRED]

Congrats...You must really be infected.

[cva66snipe]

I studied for my license once but didn't follow through. I was studying due to necessity, the same reason I got involved in scanners. This was before the cell grid was really up and going. I have a situation where my wife needs to reach me 24/7. I bought a scanner to monitor public service namely paramedics etc. Then I bought a pager running in the 462 MHZ range. Worked great except sometimes it took me a while to get to a phone {if I was fishing on rare occasion} and I also used the scanner to see if I was still in tower range.

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

[mwyounce]

Please add me to the ping list... I was on Denver Didat’s old one and I miss seeing his posts.

73 DE KD4JUX

[JackOfVA]

Please add me to the ping list

Jack

[JoJo Gunn]

A purist would cringe....

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).

[reagan_fanatic]

Please add me to your list, Steveo. General Class ham here.

73’s.