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Anybody want to try a BE raft-up some evening, maybe on 40 meters?
Riverbed
KB1TUR
 
Sorry, can't make HF. How about IRLP or echolink? Node number 7995 here in Bermuda. It is linked to our repeater. There are only about half a dozen of us active so you won't always get a response but mention my call & if somebody is listening they will likely answer.

Call is VP9KL here
 
Working on getting HF on the boat and the motorhome. Would like to help the county hounters out with some of the tough ones.

Fred
KC5YN

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Don't have HF on the boat yet but set up for all bands at home & mobile. Set the date & time for the BE raft-up and see who shows up.

Joe/N3CRP
 
Also have no HF on the boat but have just installed a dual-band 2 meter-70 cm rig for next summer. Great idea, though.

Bill
KB1ULU
 
I yanked the rig out of the boat and it's in the house now going into a trap-vertical but not set up for echolink. Plan to soon. 40 might work to MD. Let's see who else might want to give it a shot. Bill - can you hit the Scituate RI repeater (146.760)? I can get in there from Maine when the conditions are good. I've talked with Myrt - N1GKE on that a couple of times. Good guy. Merchant Marine.
 
Coming up on an one year anniversary for this thread so thought I'd resurrect it and see what happens.

Bill - KB1ULU: I just gave you a shout on the KA1CQR (146.73) repeater via EchoLink but it was pretty quiet. I'll try again after the first of the year.

Veebees: my next stop is trying Node 7995.

Our local repeater is KA1JWM with an EchoLink node of 642019. There's usually someone there so just give a shout - they're good about passing along messages or finding me in real time at the appropriate local pub.

Cheers - and Happy New Year!
Steve
Riverbed
KB1TUR
 
AA2UK here 40 meters is the only band other then 160 that I have problems with in the boat. On 40 meters the IC7000 and AT-135 load right up but as soon as I transmit the IC7000 unit shuts off. I have no problems on any other band with stray RF.
On 160 meters I just don't have a long enough antenna. I use a 23' marine verticle with the AT-135 auto tuner and 2 large Dyna-plates as the main ground 3" copper foil feeds these from the (AT-135)tuner ground.
73 Bill
AA2UK/MM when on the boat.
 
See there, all it takes is alittle gas on the embers & things flame up.

Nice chatting Steve on IRLP. Didn't get roound to telling you but I do have HF again. Nothing special. I put up a G5RV a couple weeks ago. It tunes on every band. have not used it much yet but have done a few contacts.

For any other hams, the only Bermuda node for IRLP is 7995. It is our only 2M repeater. It is not very busy. Only maybe 6 of us can be heard during the day.
 
Nice catching you on the Devonshire repeater Doug (good luck with the weather station)! Just for laughs, we should try to make something happen on-air as we head into January/February.

Any thoughts?

Judging from where we're all located, 40 might be the best, but Billy might have issues. Ten's been open almost on a regular basis, so that might work some weekend, early afternoon, when propagation's to the east coast and out to Freddy's 5-land. Then, there's always EchoLink. My local repeater here can handle 5 or 6 before it starts to wheeze.

Just thinking out loud.

Or we could always just have a BE HamFest at BillD's in the southeast. I ubderstand that he's a great chef!

Any thoughts/ideas?
 
I will see if I can string up a 40 meter dipole here at the house I have a vintage Henry 2k amplifier I can put on 40 meters.
73 Bill AA2UK
 
Have been on 40m all evening working dx I'll be on tomorrow calling cq around 7.140 7 pm local est,hope to work a few of u guys 73's WA2WJL Joe
 
NO HF right now but quite active on 2M and
just started echolink yesterday.
Give some nodes and I will try them.
73 DE WP4DL
 
I can put up a 2 meter FM station at my office I have never used echo link someone enlighten me on how to use it?
73, Bill AA2UK
 
Bill I'm with u.just got back into hamming after a 10 year rest hihi. this echolink is all new to me. I have a icom 7000 so should be able to do echo link.Hey bill try towing a long wire for 160 while crusing hihi Joe
 
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Originally posted by Billylll

I can put up a 2 meter FM station at my office I have never used echo link someone enlighten me on how to use it?
73, Bill AA2UK

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Bill, check it out at echolink.org. It is a pretty cool system and is reserved only for Hams. Takes some setting up with your computer, no problem for you I am sure. There is a bit of latency during a QSO but it works well when you don’t have access to your Ham radio or conditions aren’t right.

Harlen W7HDW
 
Baycruiser, my G5RV tunes real easy on 40. Getting good strong signals up & down east coast right now mid afternoon.

Will see if I can remember to try around 7.140 at 8:00 local for me to find you. Don't want to do much calling myself. might start a pile up & I am not into those bloodbaths. VP9 is rare.
 
Thanks guys, well I just took down my massive VHF contest station early this year. It sure was nice while it lasted having full use of a 300 foot commercial tower and the shelter. But it was also a lightning rod and I became more interested in boating and less interested in repairing the super station after most lightning storms. I always wanted and felt under the right conditions that I should have been able to work VP9's from FM29 (SNJ) via tropo or scatter with the power and antennas I had at 280 feet up. During early morning hours I could make my own scatter on 6 meters and routinely get 100 plus grids during a contest. I am considering building a VHF, UHF and Microwave Rover station. I have a new TV broadcast 42' telescopic mast with the Yaesu rotator base and a spare commercial 1 ton van. I have done this in the past but ever since 9/11 it became a real hasle with local LEOs even though I am well known by them and was once one.
It is also a pain with tree branches ruining the antennas when the mast is nestled while driving up some back road to a hilltop. I have more then enough equipment for legal limit and everything required between for 6,2 220mhz and close on 432. Above that I have 600 watts on 903 and 250 watts on 1296 & 2304MHz (my favorite band). On 3456MHz I have 40 watts at the Dish, 5.760GHz 50 watts at the dish and 10.368.1 GHz has 25 watts at the dish. On the 24GHz band I have (2) 2watt SSB/CW and NBFM stations as well that I built over the years. But boating has got the best of me and between the business and boating there is little time to do much operating or set up except while on the boat. Like I mentioned I have a nice 160 meter through 6 meter Kenwood transciever and pristine Henry 2K amplifier for HF ( she will do legal limit plus 500 watts all day) and 2 legal limit amps on 6 meters. I fact I have (2) 8877 amplifiers for 2 meters that will bury the 1kw slug on the Bird wattmeter they loaf at 1500 watts. I also built a 222MHz 8877 amplifier for 1300-1500 watts. In addition I have a 1kw commercial solid state class A 220-440MHz amplifier but it takes a ton of 48VDC current to run it. Also have a German made BEKO 750 watt solid state 432MHz amplifier with a built in sequencer for the tower top preamplifier.
73 for now
Bill AA2UK
 
Sheesh Billy, you do have a pile of stuff. At one point I had enough to cover the desk but these days it os a TS50 & a tuner. Thats it. It covers less space than my CB radio did in the 70s.

Sorry, missed the net if anyone got on. I started tinkering with plans for next years RV trip. Next thing I knew I was 2 hours late.
 
I had (3) 7' 19" equipment racks full of transverters, power supplys, antenna sequencers and amplifiers and (3) Yaesu FT-736R rigs at the VHF and above contest station. I probably left well over 2000 feet of Andrew 7/8th hardline and 1.25" hardline on the tower when I vacated it.
73 Bill
AA2UK
 
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