Amateur (Ham)Radio Commentary
I enjoy sharing my amateur radio hobby with others and submit this commentary on things I have done and am working on in my hobby.
I was a ham back in the mid 60's when I got my novice license, WN3BVD. I got interested again because of the community service and disaster preparedness angle, so I got a General license in Santa Rosa, CA, in April, 2016, with call sign KM6BYD, and have now upgraded to Amateur Extra in November, 2016, with my new call sign, AA6BD, in November, 2019. I am active on VHF/UHF and am beginning to use HF, especially nets and digital.
At home, I use a 40-6M off center fed dipole about 30 feet in the air. I also use a Buddipole to check out other configurations. I often use the Buddipole as a 10M vertical as it works better than my OCFD for local nets.
Oh, "home" changed from CA to TN. I currently have a 40-6M OCFD and two 2M/440 J-Poles, and lightning protection, as it is needed here in TN. I maintain a HamSCI Grape1 receiver to help them study radio propagation which requires another antenna, a long wire that listens to WWV.
I was a ham back in the mid 60's when I got my novice license, WN3BVD. I got interested again because of the community service and disaster preparedness angle, so I got a General license in Santa Rosa, CA, in April, 2016, with call sign KM6BYD, and have now upgraded to Amateur Extra in November, 2016, with my new call sign, AA6BD, in November, 2019. I am active on VHF/UHF and am beginning to use HF, especially nets and digital.
At home, I use a 40-6M off center fed dipole about 30 feet in the air. I also use a Buddipole to check out other configurations. I often use the Buddipole as a 10M vertical as it works better than my OCFD for local nets.
Oh, "home" changed from CA to TN. I currently have a 40-6M OCFD and two 2M/440 J-Poles, and lightning protection, as it is needed here in TN. I maintain a HamSCI Grape1 receiver to help them study radio propagation which requires another antenna, a long wire that listens to WWV.