Subj : Re: Wannbe HAM
To   : KENT TIMM
From : JIMMY ANDERSON
Date : Wed Sep 21 2016 10:38 am

-=> Kent Timm wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

 KT> I can only think of a couple people that got licensed recently that
 KT> around, one is a horrible operator, he'll key up and talk over people
 KT> on nets if he wants to talk and always runs high power so he just step
 KT> on anybody that isn't.  He inturpted me once while I was using the
 KT> echolink on one repeater to connect to the southcars net, and told the
 KT> net controller (who had nothing to do with the link being up) to get
 KT> off the repeater because there was another net coming on in a bit.

You run into people like that everywhere. Soudns like a bully.

 > HT I was only able to HEAR and SOMETIMES transmit. Now I have access
 > to repeaters 30 - 50 miles away as well. Maybe with a 'more than
 > HT' you'd have more people to talk to?

 KT> When I have a regular radio, I use to get good range, I'm on the 8th
 KT> floor in an apartment and use a home made groud plane on 2m. I use to
 KT> get in to a repeater about 50 miles away til they lost access to the
 KT> tower they were using and had to move the repeater.  There's a couple
 KT> other out of town repeaters I could hit, but they were small towns and
 KT> pretty quiet too.

There's one here - the main one for the area - that is VERY tall and is used
by a lot of people. The 2nd most active is another VERY tall one and is close
enought to the Mississippi River to get traffic from Arkansas. But then there
are a TON on Repeater Book in these little towns that I never hear ANY traffic
on.

 > GB3LV? If so - just connected... No response yet, but I'll add it to
 > my favorites!
 KT> took some looking, when I first got on the air i logged evey contact on
 KT> paper using a old Radio Shask logbook I modifity and reprinted, yes,
 KT> GB3LV, April 24 2010, and the contact was m0rom.

I'll give it another try then. :-)

Actually I'm at work right now - working on four laptops at once - let's see
what
I can hear...

Oh - just re-read what you said. That's not one you use NOW? Was looking for
ne
I could make a contact with YOU. :-)

What's the details on the SOUTHERNS thing you mentioned?


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