Subj : this echo
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Roy Witt
Date : Wed Jun 06 2001 10:11 am

Hello Michiel.

17 May 01 21:09, you wrote to me:

 >> SB> It would be an idea if maybe some of the users did a
 >> SB> profile of the gear they use, the bands and times,
 >> in UTC, they are on the air.
 >>
 >> I don't know if any of us are on HF anymore.

 MvdV> I still am occasionally. Mostly on 80 meters. Sometimes on 10 FM
 MvdV> from the mobile.

Like a dummy, I bought a house in an antenna restricted area.  Although
the FCC and the state of California have laws that say Amateurs are
exempt, I've not attempted any big antenna projects.  I've got a ten meter
antenna on the ground and nothing more.  Even so, I've talked from here to
the the USofA East coast, Australia, Japan and Alaska on it.  I've got an
antenna project in mind that would give me rooftop elevation without
attracting attention.  Just need the time to build it.

 MvdV> Whenever I am in the car I have 2 meters on standby.

Last time I had a two-way radio in the car, I used an autopatch to report
a drunk driver on the freeway.  There were many reports ahead of me by
those who had a cell phone.  Since then, I've given up mobile operation
for a cell phone.

 MvdV> I am a ham for over 35 years now and in the beginning I was very
 MvdV> active. Over the years the fires have dimmed a bit though and the
 MvdV> activity has shifted from the technical to the organisatorial.

Been one almost as long, interest being even longer.  I was introduced to
HAM radio by a school mate back in the 50s.  He kept my interest up, even
though his NOVICE license expired after a year.  Together we pioneered the
new Citizens Band of 1959 in our small town.  I finally got my first HAM
license 11 years later after the CB craze died down.

 MvdV> I have been the keeper of the local 2m repeater from 1982 to 1994
 MvdV> and from 1990 I have been a member of the commitee that negotiates
 MvdV> with the Dutch equivalent of the FCC about license condition etc.

I did that for a local club. I and another fellow placed on a 5600 foot
high mountain and serviced the clubs Motorola repeater for about 4 years,
c1979-1983.  I went on to own my own UHF repeater on the same mountain,
selling it about 5 years ago.  It's still in operation on that mountain,
just in a private vacation home now.  More recently, I worked with No-code
International to lower the code requirements for licensing here and
abroad.  I noticed a message from NCI in my email this morning, although I
haven't gotten to read it yet.  Looks like a request for more help.


.... QTI - Troubled by an Idiot
--- Twit(t) Filter v2.1 (C) 2000
 * Origin: KB6PI's Antenna Farm * Santa Ysabel, CA * (1:10/22)

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