A boy's passport to the world

Charlotte Observer ^ | 6/1/08 | Joe DePreist

[econjack]

Gees...I couldn’t even spell “can’t” right!

[kalee]

ping

[mylife]

Yeah... that could be against ordinances LoL

[JRandomFreeper]

I leave a HT tuned to 52.525 and turned on 24/7. I haven't heard anything. But I've got crap for an antenna, too. :(

/johnny

[econjack]

My guess is that he’s single...

[mylife]

Its so cool that you can pick off Satcom.

NASA is using this SDQ-14 with a bank of those to listen to the Mars Rover.

Choose yer own frontend

[girlangler]

Thanks for posting this mylife.

Grammy, this ping is for Mr. G, can’t remember his posting name right now.

Neat story.

[mylife]

I knew what ya meant L0L

[mylife]

My pleasure.

[Hawthorn]

> I leave a HT tuned to 52.525 and turned on 24/7. <

That’s in the FM part of six meters. The DX is almost all down in the CW portion(below 50.100) and SSB portion (below 50.300) of the band.

[mylife]

Check out the associated Iraq Field day story

[CenTex]

Perchance you can join this grumpy old man for the Technician class I will be teaching starting on the 14th that will have two sub teens and several future grumpy old men as students. I have contributed to about 100 hams and upgrades since the code went away....

GRUMP GRUMP GRUMP

W5VEX, Belton Texas...

[mylife]

Love yer tagline

[mylife]

Oh I for got...

Grump grump grump ;)

[Bobalu]

I bet you are right...he is most likely single LOL :-) You can phase lock a microwave oven's magnetron and drop it's usual frequency of 2.450GHz down a bit into the ham allocation at 2.39 - 2.45 GHz and use it with a dish for a powerful cw signal for moonbounce. Can put a decent signal on the surface of Mars with a big dish and 1kw at the feed point but nobody has yet heard an echo back from Mars although they keep trying. You could do it with this 110mtr x 110mtr dish at Greenbank though... 7 watts at the feed point of this monster gives you 1 megawatt erp...but hams have not yet been allowed to use it.

Here is a 50 foot dish built entirely from scratch...uses a 5" gun mount rotor...bet this guy is single as well!

[TMSuchman]

This is a great story of a boy & his DAD together to get a common goal. Way to go DAD...

[mylife]

The key here is that Dad has this kid understanding FOCUS at a very early age

[mylife]

Moms a Ham too!

[bikerman]

aaaahhh yes the good old days, built many a kit from allied radio and their Knight kits. still have QSLs from around the world during my SWL days. Actually worked one of the SWL cards when I got my ticket have both framed in my shack. Our radio club been having field day at my place going on 14 years still enjoying it. And still use CW.

[econjack]

Hokie smokes!! I wonder what my neighborhood association would say if I tried to put up one of these babies!