AMRAD Technet

[Tom Azlin W7SUA]

Thanks Dick.

Things doing OK here. Lots of projects to do and health to maintain.

Spring has come but then we are in (high) desert so nice weather. Slight 
breeze being funneled through our house from the breezeway.

When we looked for a place out here we specifically looked for room for 
antennas as well as being un-trampled desert to have many small and 
large desert critters. Found a six acre place with a ridge and a hill 
with house in the saddle between the two. My new tower on the ridge a 
few hundred feet south of our garage will easily hold up one end of the 
top hat as well as a 160 and 80 inverted V. Will have to shift my 50 ft 
fiberglass mast for the other end of the top hat but that is easy. And 
that ridge runs SW to NE so seemed to be a good spot for a Beverage 
especially that my neighbor to the East gave me permission to continue 
the Beverage across his 13 acres.  A receiving loop will be the first 
start.

Will be over in my shack in an hour or so to see if I still have 
echolink still set up.

73, tom w7sua
chino Valley AZ



On 4/3/2018 2:26 PM, RICHARD BARTH wrote:
> Hi, Tom.  Long time no hear.  How are things in Arizona?
> 
> We are still waiting for spring around here. I have the TV on in the background,
> and it just told me that there is a possibility of snow this Saturday. The cherry
> blossoms are about to peak because there have been some warm hdays and it hasn't
> gone below freezing for a while, but it's hard to believe it's spring with that
> kind of weather forecast.
> 
> Glad to hear you're going to be on LF. I wish I had room for an antenna long enough
> to work the band, but I have enough trouble fitting a forty meter dipole on my plot.
> I could do an active antenna for receive only, but that's more SWL than ham.
> 
> Look forward to your joining the Technet.
> 
> 73,  Dick
> 
> 
>> On April 3, 2018 at 1:47 PM Tom Azlin W7SUA <tom at w7sua.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> thanks Richard.
>>
>> I will again try to do two things at once!  The AMRAD Technet and the
>> VWS HF digital net! Might need to do a bit of prep work to make sure my
>> echolink app is working!
>>
>> I did not get rejected for 630 and 2200 meters so am working on plans to
>> be ready for next Winter. First getting a 40/30/20 yagi on my new tower
>> then re-doing my HF wire antennas with the idea of using an open wire
>> fed doublet to be a T antenna for the the lower bands along with either
>> a receiving loop or a Beverage.
>>
>> 73, tom w7sua
>> Chino Valley AZ
>>
>> On 4/2/2018 3:13 PM, RICHARD BARTH wrote:
>>>
>>> A reminder: the AMRAD Technical Net (TechNet) meets every Tuesday evening
>>>
>>> at 8 PM Eastern. Net members connect via Echolink. (If you don't know
>>> what that is,
>>>
>>> just Google it) and the net control is Sandy Sanders, WB5MMB in Texas. You
>>>
>>> connect to the net by searching the Echolink application for supported
>>> repeaters in
>>>
>>> Texas, where station WB5MMB is located.
>>>
>>>
>>> You need to download the Echolink app (available for Windows, Android and
>>>
>>> Apple). Then you have to authenticate yourself as a licensed amateur by
>>>
>>> sending the operators a copy of your license. This means you have to do some
>>>
>>> preparation if you're not already an Echolink user.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope you can join in.
>>>
>>>
>>> 73,
>>>
>>>
>>> Dick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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