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echo: amateur_radio
to: KENT TIMM
from: JIMMY ANDERSON
date: 2016-08-12 08:55:00
subject: RE: great 1st contact on

On 8/10/2016 8:55 PM, Kent Timm wrote to All:

-> I just got the radio I've been drooling over almost since i got my license 
-> 6.5 years ago, a Yaesu Ft-950  :)    So last night I got my home made 
-> interface for digital rewired for it (I do a lot of JT65) and got on the
air,

w00t!

-> I called CQ just once and got a VK contact on the first try!  Pretty good
for 
-> about 3am and the first contact on my new used radio..  Maybe I'm over 
-> excited on this.. but just had to say it:)

I don't think it's possible to be over excited. :-) Everyone geeks on
something. :-)

I still have just an HT, but was excited the first time I connected to a local 
repeater! I've since acquired a hand me down HF rig & home made antenna, but 
haven't hooked it up yet... Have to get a power supply and get it setup. :-)

 
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