> There have been a few other newish HAM's pop up on one of the
 > repeaters, so I guess I'm hitting it at a good time.

I don't know what happens to the new hams around here.  I've been licensed
¨since the beginning of 2010 and every fall they have a ham course at the
¨local club (which I am not involved with btw) and they usually claim about
16 ¨to 18 new hams each course, but rarely do I hear any body new on the
¨repeaters over the years.  and the ones that do turn up don't stay active
¨long.
Part of me wants to get a regualr VHF radio again instead of just the HT,
¨since I have to keep the HT in the right spot to get a good signal, but I
¨just is hard to justity even getting a used radio when there's nothing on
¨there to hear or talk to except a couple nets.. ¨ ¨btw: I got my license
solo.  I used an old Radio Shack book "from 5 watts to ¨1000
watts" and some study info I found on a Toronto club's website.


 > I was in my wife's truck yesterday and I don't have her mobile rig
 > installed yet, so I popped open EchoLink on my iPhone just to see...
 > Went to a repeater in Alabama I had made a contact on and 'chewed'
 > for about 30 minutes with two different people local to that area.

I don't use echolink that much, but did something like that myself,
randomly ¨picked a repeater in London UK and put out my callsign and talked
to a guy ¨there on his way home from work for a while.  There's an echolink
net out of ¨Florida (southcars) I check in to from time to time too. ¨
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