Subj : I finally got my license To : Daryl Stout From : DaiTengu Date : Fri Oct 23 2020 08:18:27 Re: I finally got my license By: Daryl Stout to DaiTengu on Wed Oct 21 2020 08:21 am Da>> Yeah, we're down to 5 cats, a bird, 6 bunnies, and a dog. The cats Da>> are getting up there in age, the bunnies are about 3-5 years old, Da>> The dog is 3, and the bird is 12. The bird will likely outlive us. DS> You forgot the partridge in a pear tree. My wife always makes that joke, :) Da>> I'm not sure how the 706 interfaces, I assume you need a custom Da>> cable or something, along with a soundcard on your computer. DS> What gets me is that you see the price on a rig, but then you have to DS> buy all these accessories. Yep! Fortunately all I needed when I got my IC-7300 was a power supply, a USB cable and an antenna. The antenna has been the bane of my existence, and it looks like I'm going to have to drop the $80 on a new wire. If it would stop raining here, maybe I could get outside and fix the stretching issue. THe good news is, it's supposed to stop raining soon. The bad news is, it's just going to switch over to snow. Da>> I also signed up for winlink, so I now I can get e-mail over HF, Da>> which is pretty nifty. Even if it does run at about 1000 bytes per Da>> minute. DS> You can email me at wx4qz@winlink.org -- I use RMS Express for Winlink, DS> and Outpost for Packet. I am the scribe and alternating Net Control for a DS> net on the NS2B BBS in Penfield, New York, on Mondays at 8pm Eastern Time DS> (the net does NOT meet during a week where a holiday exists). I listen in on nets I hear on HF from time to time, but the only net I actively participate in is the weekly FCARC (Fox Cities Amateur Radio Club, my local ham club) net on 2m. Unfortunately all I have for VHF/UHF is one of those cheap, BaoFeng HTs. It seems to work though. I'll probably look at getting a 2m/70cm radio next year. DS> You can email me at wx4qz@winlink.org -- I use RMS Express for Winlink, DS> and Outpost for Packet. I am the scribe and alternating Net Control for a DS> net on the NS2B BBS in Penfield, New York, on Mondays at 8pm Eastern Time DS> (the net does NOT meet during a week where a holiday exists). The only digital stuff I've gotten into heavily at this point is FT8, mainly because it's so simple to set up. I'm about 4 confirmations short of getting a "Worked All States" badge on QRZ (and probably LOTW). Which reminds me, my buddy is pestering me to update my QRZ.com profile, which is something I should probably do at some point. I'm just not very good at listing information about myself when it's not part of a conversation. DaiTengu .... All's well that ends. --- þ Synchronet þ War Ensemble BBS - The sport is war, total war - warensemble.com .