Just recently was assigned a new vanity call sign of W7DTG. Be sure to listen for me on the air.
What else is there besides radio....
Actually, I enjoy chasing DX, and working new countries. i also enjoy elmering new hams. You can usually catch me on 20M PSK31 during the day, and 40M CW at night.
I also enjoy working with computers, and the digital modes of ham radio.
Station Blog
Incredible DX sept 3rd
9/5/2008 7:34:23 AM (359 views) (0 comments)
Good morning,
Had a AWESOME day DX'ing on the 3rd of September. Got to spend abt 4 hours in the shack in the digital modes, and worked 25 DX stations. All in all I worked over 11 different countries. These were Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Serbia, England,Ukraine, Germany, Slovenia, Iceland,Russia
and the Canary Islands (Spain).
That ...
tube rugs and 10M
6/13/2008 10:57:02 AM (442 views) (0 comments)
well, it has been a few months since I posted anything new here, so I thought I would pop in and catch everyone up on my activities.
Been trying to get my CW skills back up to speed, since I spent a LOT of time using PSK-31 this last year. I will be doing CW during field day for the club, and want to beat my score from last year.
Been ...
Tube rigs
5/5/2008 11:37:32 AM (621 views) (0 comments)
Been a while since I posted anything new, so I thought I would catch up a bit on the tube gear.
Been trying to generate 10m activity in this area, and using the tube gear on the 10m band, which isn't easy sometimes. The tube gear can be a bit finicky at times. For instance, the Drake T4XC and R4C can only do abt 50w output on that band. not ...
10m and Tube rig's
3/23/2008 6:16:10 PM (680 views) (0 comments)
Hi, haven't posted anything in a while, so thought I would just catch up a bit.
Been working on 10m a lot lately, although I have only made a few local contacts so far. Been trying to stir up some 10m activity in this area. I also have a friend who is a technician that is dying to make some 10m contacts, so we get on there everyday and chat ...
new old gear
3/1/2008 2:40:30 PM (607 views) (0 comments)
The other day I had a chance to swing a deal for some tube gear, which I happen to really enjoy. I had a Yaesu ft-857 which I wasnt really using to much other than for 2M, so I did a swap with a local ham that was looking for an HF rig fr his truck. I ended up with a set of C-line drake twins, a Heathkit 1KW Linear, and a Heathkit xmtr/rcvr also. ...
w000t, new Vanity callsign finally here
2/11/2008 2:41:12 PM (1640 views) (1 comments)
Wow, after waiing for the F.C.C for what seemed an eternity, my NEW callsign is finally here. I went with W7DTG (my initials) for the new callsign. I would have had t at the same time that becky did, but I made 1 little change to it while in the process of changing the call, and it changed my receive date from the 18th to the 22nd....AAARRRGGGHHH< ...
Spar Winter field day
1/27/2008 2:41:03 PM (655 views) (0 comments)
Well, the weekend event is now over with, and we have a total of 80 contacts under our belt for the whole weekend. Apparently it isn't as popular a contest as we had hoped, since a good number of the contacts had no idea why we were sending "winter field day". After spending several minutes explaining to them what we were doing, they wou ...
SPAR contest weekend
1/25/2008 3:08:49 AM (640 views) (0 comments)
Woot, another contest this weekend. All i got to do is set up ALL my gear out in the backyard in a tent, run a generator to the radios, and away i go !!!
This weekend is the SPAR field day event. SPAR is the Society for the Preservation of Amateur Radio, and they are hosting a winter field day event. Don't want no summer pansies for this one ...
