Amateur 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 a 2M/440 J-Pole, and lightning protection, as it is needed here in TN.
I use Yaesu System Fusion through a local repeater, or through PDN mode, and my FT1-XDR handheld or FTM-300D mobile rig.
I also have a handheld Ailunce HD1 for DMR and listen to local analog repeaters as well as TG 31707.
I connect to Winlink usually using my IC-7100 and Winlink Express. I use YAAC for APRS.
I use Build-a-Pi on a Raspberry Pi, and taught several classes for my ham club on PAT (Winlink), and YAAC (APRS), and other topics, both ham radio and electronics related. I have PAT and YAAC on a Raspberry Pi and connected to my IC-7100. Build-a-Pi is the swiss army knife of ham apps for a portable station and provides a lot more than PAT and YAAC such as WSJT-X and JS8CALL
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 a 2M/440 J-Pole, and lightning protection, as it is needed here in TN.
I use Yaesu System Fusion through a local repeater, or through PDN mode, and my FT1-XDR handheld or FTM-300D mobile rig.
I also have a handheld Ailunce HD1 for DMR and listen to local analog repeaters as well as TG 31707.
I connect to Winlink usually using my IC-7100 and Winlink Express. I use YAAC for APRS.
I use Build-a-Pi on a Raspberry Pi, and taught several classes for my ham club on PAT (Winlink), and YAAC (APRS), and other topics, both ham radio and electronics related. I have PAT and YAAC on a Raspberry Pi and connected to my IC-7100. Build-a-Pi is the swiss army knife of ham apps for a portable station and provides a lot more than PAT and YAAC such as WSJT-X and JS8CALL