Hello, Ed.

Wednesday August 20 2008 at 20:39, you wrote to me:

 EH> We have a very active ARES/RACES community here. The "old geezers"
 EH> here have been occupied with keeping "old sparky" the old
RCT historic
 EH> radio station on the air.

Must be nice.  I miss actually learning new things in ham radio and
participating in something worthwhile.

As for the equipment, you're lightyears ahead of me.  I've got a nearly-new
ICOM IC-718 (used ONCE), a SuperAntennas screwdriver antenna, a Radio Shack
HTX-204 (I think) 2m mobile, a Yaesu FT-2400 2m mobile, a Yaesu VX-105 2m
HT and a Radio Shack HT-102 (the little itty bitty 340mw 2m HT) somewhere.

I might sell the ICOM to my lawyer who is working on getting his ham
license. We're hoping that if my wife gets this job she's trying for, we
can afford to move out of this hole we're in now and get a house...and one
I can slap up a G5RV on the roof.

I've got about six pieces of Rohm 25 (I think that's it) for a tower at a
friend's house, but that'll be a while before I get that put up!

The main thing I want to do is get that new Yaesu FT-950 to talk to my dad
with.  I'd like to build my own radio, but I've not the time nor the motor
skills to build one anymore.  Maybe a Tuna Tin 340mw 40 QRP rig, but
anything else, forget it.

My main interest now is just chasing a little DX for fun (no contests) and
talking to my ham-enabled family scattered across the US.

 EH> Just about any topic is on topic in this echo. :-)

That's good, but we might bore others to tears with our ham chatter. 

Later,
Sean

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