Subj : Any HAMS around here?
To   : HuD
From : Spaceman Spiff
Date : Sat Jul 31 2004 12:54 pm

  Re: Any HAMS around here?
  By: HuD to All on Sat Apr 17 2004 06:28 am

 > Hello I'm KC8QNA here in Ohio anyone else here a HAM if so I would love to h
 > from you. Talk about equipment and such.
 > 
 > Lates..
 > 
 > HuD
 > 
 > 
Hi Mike,

I have a Ten Tec 544, Kenwood TS-520 SE, Radio Shack 10 meter Mobile, ICOM
IC-R7000 receiver, half a dozen old Kenwood HTs, most not working using for
parts to keep a couple of them working. Yaesu VX-5 Triband HT, Yaesu FT-5100
Mobile Dual Bander. Panasonic RF-4900 short wave receiver, a Zenith Trans
    Oceannic .

I am on Pennsylvania, I have cousins Ohio, a lot of family out in Western PA
near Pittsburg and inlaws near Bedford, PA. When in Bedford I have talked on
440 link repeater system that allowed me to tyalk to guys in Ohio.

I am north of Philadelphia and have not been able to do any VHF/UHF work to
Ohio but I have made the contacts on HF.
OAOB



I am cureently using TELNET as my termial program so my editing capabilities
are poor, I would like to fix my typos but it is really  a pain, so bear with
me. "ON PENNSYLVANIA"  yes I landed on the planet. Sheesh, I should have used
MTelnet, but I clicked on to the Synchronet link off my website and WInBlows
opened this poor excuse of a terminal program.

Getting off on a Tangent, I have and installed Linspire (formally LINDOWS Linux
OS) But there currently is no Linux Driver for the ATI ALL-IN-WONDER-RADEON 32
MEG DDR video card so I was stuck in 600x300 resolution no matter what I set
the resolution for, staring at 6 lines of type on the screen max each at 2 inch
tall letters, I found LINUX would not work with this system. Unless I buy a new
video card, well the new Radeon A-I-W is over $400, so I just reloaded my
WIN98. It didn't cost me anything except my sanity. :)

Back to HAM RADIO related talk.

I am in the process of building a station for receiving NOAA orbital satellites
around 137 MHz. A friend of mine had an old Pentium 166 Mhz system with sound
card he was going to throw away becasue the hard drive crashed so I gave him
$15 for it and am going to hook it up to the ICOM IC-R7000 and run WXSat
to capture the video shots from the pass over, then I need to a program that
will upload the images to my website. Should be pretty easy and a fun project.

Any projects you are working on?
73 Mark
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/n3jnc

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