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Extreme Electronics

Fri May 12 2006, 02:14PM

Registered Member #74 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 09:17AM
Location: Nottingham UK
Posts: 99

G6LUB In Nottingham UK - Licence lapsed about 10 years ago, due to both working and playing with microwave radio systems.

My interests were mainly microwave systems (10GHz & 24Ghz) for both voice and video, altough I did chat on 70cm & 2M (as there wern't many people to talk to at 10Ghz and the mobile setup was impossible

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I sold up the rest of my kit about 3 years ago to fund some TC'ing.

Derek

Dr. Who

Wed Jul 26 2006, 09:00AM

Registered Member #326 Joined: Sat Mar 18 2006, 01:12PM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 66

My callsign is GM0UIN. I've been licenced for over a decade, with a gap of a few years when I lived in various flats/apartments which were unsuitable for radio. I no longer do much in the way of building radio equipment, but I do still enjoy talking to people on HF, 2M and 70 CM.

RadioRigs

From left to right: Key KM-450 70CM rig, Kenwood TM-G707 2M/70CM rig, Yaesu FT-840 HF rig, with MFJ-945C antenna tuner, boxed-up SGC DSP board and speaker sitting on top, Yaesu VX-5 6M/2M/70CM handheld.

ZXLNT

Fri Oct 27 2006, 06:45AM

Registered Member #299 Joined: Thu Mar 09 2006, 11:16AM
Location:
Posts: 1

Been a very long time since I have bee on this site. Anyway Call sign is KX0Z, I hold an Amateur Extra Clas and a general radiotelephone lisc. Unfortunately I have more priveledges than I do time or equipment. Main thing I like is 2 meters and I try to get out during severe storm season to help weather spot. I suppose if I get back into it more someday I'll get back on the HF bands and work some code, although I am pretty rusty at the moment..

atomicthumbs

Sun Nov 19 2006, 07:40PM

Registered Member #498 Joined: Sun Nov 19 2006, 06:00PM
Location: Bay Area
Posts: 19

My call is KI6EFA. I have a technician license, but no radio yet.

I hope to get an Icom IC-T90A this christmas, though!

J. Aaron Holmes

Wed Jan 03 2007, 12:50AM

Registered Member #477 Joined: Tue Jun 20 2006, 11:51PM
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 546

Wow...I've like, never bothered to visit the Electromagnetic Radiation forum, yet I've been on this board for most of a year. I should get major demerits!

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My callsign is N7OE, formerly KI7QM, formerly KB7SQY. Been a ham since early 1993, and an Extra Class since the days when you had to copy 20-words-per-minute CW in order to become one. Initially it seemed like a very lame thing indeed, however in the process of becoming proficient at CW, I ended up loving it! It became about the only mode I used on HF.

I've been mostly out of the hobby for about five years since moving to an area with antenna restrictions, however I'm just now moving again to an area without such restrictions, so I'm hoping to "get back into" ham radio. Most especially, I'd like to build some of my own QRP gear...maybe even use tubes to do so, since I've just encountered a ridiculous number of NOS triodes in a box at my parents' house. Fun, fun, fun...

One of the few aspects of the hobby that I've enjoyed a little during the past few years is direction finding (bunny/fox hunts). Among my stranger creations is a transmitter controller built from a Game Boy: http://silicon-arcana.com/ardf.htm

My license expires in just a couple of months...I hope I don't forget to renew

Best regards,
Aaron, N7OE

Chris Russell

Fri Feb 09 2007, 07:32PM

... not Russel!
Registered Member #1 Joined: Thu Jan 26 2006, 12:18AM
Location: Tempe, Arizona
Posts: 1052

Well, my upgrade and vanity callsign just went through, so say goodbye KD6KUI, Advanced. Say hello to NV1D, Extra Class! My "shack" currently consists of a Yaesu FT-857D, along with an antenna tuner and a computer interface so that I can do advanced DSP. For antennas, right now I have a magnetic loop antenna that covers 80m, 60m, 40m, 30m, and 20m. I also have hamsticks for every band from 6m to 80m, in case I decide to go mobile. I'm also currently building a multimode beacon for 30m.

J. Aaron Holmes

Sat Feb 10 2007, 03:37AM

Registered Member #477 Joined: Tue Jun 20 2006, 11:51PM
Location: Seattle, WA
Posts: 546

Chris Russell wrote ...

Say hello to NV1D, Extra Class!

Congrats on the upgrade, and on the new call! 1x2 and 2x1 calls have got to be hard to come by these days, especially in your own region!

I vanity-ized in 1997, and even then I didn't get my first choice (forget what it was, though).

Regards,
Aaron, N7OE

GreySoul

Sat Feb 24 2007, 03:56PM

Registered Member #546 Joined: Fri Feb 23 2007, 11:43PM
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Posts: 239

KC5QFV no code tech. Innactive, but still lisenced.

I have about a dozen radios in various states or repair / disassembly. Mostly Yaesu and Alinco (3 hand sets, none working)

I mostly just keep it around in case of some kind of emergency.

-Doug

Vaxian

Mon Apr 16 2007, 12:10AM

Registered Member #635 Joined: Tue Apr 10 2007, 01:56AM
Location:
Posts: 85

KG4WTL General Class

Been ham for over 20 years (was N3GYC, let expire)

ALL CW, read up to 35 wpm, send up to 40 wpm

Operate mostly on 40 meters, some 20, 30, 80

Love old tube gear (if you see my coils this is no surprise)

Wed Jul 25 2007, 06:20AM

Registered Member #924 Joined: Wed Jul 25 2007, 01:12AM
Location: Waikanae, NZ
Posts: 2

ZL4JY in New Zealand

Had my licence for 32 years and operated mainly from 6M to 24 GHz as ZL2TRV. My particular interests are VHF DX and repeater construction. I sometimes dabble with 80M AM for fun!

I also operate on commercial HF land mobile freqs between 3 and 6 MHz as part of New Zealand Land Search and Rescue.

73 John

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