Ham Radio

I am an Amateur Extra and my (inherited) call sign is W6GKD, my old sign was KE7JXI.

I am splitting out a separate page for repeaters sorted by Oregon ARES districts.

Stuff I need to look at

uSDX and (tr)usdx multimode QRP transceivers http://Dl2man.de https://dl2man.de/4-trusdx-manual/

Someone is selling (tr)usdx kits $88 https://newdiytech.com/products/trusdx-5-band-multimode-qrp-transceiver-kit-and-assembled-by-pe1nnz-and-dl2man

QYT radios

Places

Oregon Coast

The club in the Astoria area is http://w7buhams.org/ aka The Sunset Empire Radio Amateur Club.

Oregon Coast Repeater Group maps and lists covering Clatsop, Lincoln, and Tillamook counties.

Coos County Radio Club For repeaters on the south coast including Lane, Douglas, Coos and Curry counties.

7Monday - ARES Net North Thursday - Pacific County net at 7:30pm

Sonoma county

Sonoma County Radio Amateurs web site

Repeaters

2015-05-13 There are many others listed in repeaterbook.com but I am starting with these.

Simplex 146.520 APRS 144.390

SCRA Sonoma county repeaters http://sonomacountyradioamateurs.com/wp/our-club/about/ "Our net meets on the linked 147.315 system every Tuesday night at 7 pm."

1  147.315 + PL 88.5
2  224.480 � PL 88.5
3  441.375 + PL 88.5

Marin county repeaters: http://w6sg.net/site/?page_id=159 Sunday 10:15am: On the 146.70 Simulcast Repeater System. (Click here for system details)

4  Ch. 1 	146.700- pl 203.5 	Big Rock Ridge
5  Ch. 2 	146.700- pl 179.9 	Mt. Tam
6  Ch. 3 	146.700- pl 167.9 	Barnabe
7  Ch. 4 	147.330+ pl 179.9 	Mt. Tam stand alone repeater
8  Ch. 5 	147.330+ pl 173.8 	San Pedro Ridge Backup repeater

Let's get on with the programming. It's only 8 channels, I can handle that without resorting to a computer, can't I?

Reno Nevada

I will be visiting Sparks around Sept 20 so I need to program my radio for the SNARS and KA7ZAU repeaters.

SNARS = Sierra Nevada Amateur Radio Society

SNARS sites are probably colocated with High Sierra Communications http://www.highsierracomm.com/site_detail.php?id=25

There is also a ham, Arlan KA7ZAU who runs a repeater of his own with an Echolink connection. See the QRZ page for information on his Echolink node. When I connected today it showed a link to KJ6NKR-R at Lake Tahoe

Hamlib

https://github.com/N0NB/hamlib

ARRL Expands Member Access to QST Archive

From the ARRL email newsletter:

ARRL is pleased to announce that online access to the QST archive will be expanded. Beginning February 1, 2009, ARRL members will be able to search and view QST -- from December 1915 through December 2005 right from their computer. With an additional year -- 2005 -- added to the viewable archive, this valuable benefit is available to all ARRL members.

As an added benefit, ARRL Diamond Club members at the Brass level and above -- as well as ARRL Maxim Society members -- will be able to get images from the entire QST archive, right up through December 2008, an additional three years. According to ARRL Chief Development Officer Mary Hobart, K1MMH, this is the first new benefit that has been added to the Diamond Club since the Diamond Terrace opened in 2007. "Given the popularity of the QST online archive," Hobart said, "I hope that Diamond Club members and the Maxim Society members will enjoy exclusive access to the most recent four years of QST with our appreciation for their generosity. Perhaps the expanded QST viewable archive will inspire other ARRL members to participate in the Diamond Club and enjoy the other benefits available to Diamond Club members, as well."

The online archive was first introduced to members in fall 2008, providing PDF copies of articles from the huge QST archive, from December 1915 through December 2004. Since then, thousands of members have enjoyed searching, viewing and printing their favorite articles, projects and more. The membership benefit is a service of the ARRL Technical Information Service (TIS).

Access to the archive is free for ARRL members.

QST is the official journal of ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio. An interest in Amateur Radio is the only essential qualification of membership. ARRL membership is $39 per year in the US. For a complete list of membership benefits and dues, please visit the ARRL Membership Web page.

Log

7/18 Setting up APRS on the TM-D710A

5/15 Move to California, and got my Extra license. Setting up repeaters today in the Kenwood TH-F6A There was very little ham activity where I lived in Oregon. Hoping there is more here in California.

Somewhere in here I got a Kenwood TM-D710A and put it in the Yaris named Alba.

1/08 I am finally getting more time to look at this thing. I quit the 2nd job!

8/07 - busy busy... I look at the Kenwood from time to time, just have not gotten into it yet.

1/14/07 - Software Defined Radio

01/07 - I got my first radio, it's a Kenwood TH-F6A. Initial comments: The wall wart power supply looks like something from 1970. It's bigger than the radio. The radio works, it took a few hours to get the hang of the controls.

I powered it up just in time to listen in on the local ARES net. Other than that so far there don't seem to be any people talking around here. :-) I probably listen in the wrong places.

I can hear lots of AM, FM, and TV stations. No shortwave.

11/06 - I got my Technician license.

APRS

Automatic Packet Reporting System ==> APRS

Links

http://www.qsl.net/n9zia/ Lots of interesting stuff for beginners like me.