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Author Topic: Are you a ham Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-09-2008 01:12 PM                       Okay, Jeff. Let me know. We'll set up a sked for Dayton! I can't wait to jump in and make some contacts during this new solar cycle. I had a temporary station setup a few months ago and made a handful of marginal contacts with some big stations during a contest weekend, but after that - nothing. I had an indoor random wire strung up in the apartment here, but XYL put an end to that after a bit. N4ZVO! FB, Jerry! Sounds like a great station you have. I love CW, too, and worked it almost exclusively. Yes, I hear the cries of 75M being just like CB now. I knew it would eventually come down to that, since they've kept whittling down the exams and code requirements. So, being in Nashville, you're not terribly far from Dayton. You going to the Hamvention this year?  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 01-10-2008 05:46 PM                     Tim, I started off as a novice in 1970 with a 40M dipole strung along the ceiling of a first floor apartment in a three story building. Yuck. My contact rate was about two QSOs/week! I'd call CQ all night long and no response. But, let me tell you, the guy above me sure had an RF sensitive Hi Fi set! He'd get going with a girlfriend up there and blast the stereo... but I could put a stop to the loud music with a few dits and dahs in short order! I think they'd then retire to the bedroom for more "quiet" activies.  |  IP: Logged Jerry D. Cox Film Handler Posts: 35 From: Nashville, TN, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 01-11-2008 11:54 AM                     Hi Tim,No I don't guss I will I would like to ,But I have A DR-  |  IP: Logged Jerry D. Cox Film Handler Posts: 35 From: Nashville, TN, USA Registered: Dec 2000 posted 01-11-2008 11:57 AM                     Hi Tim,No I don't guss I will I would like to ,But I have A DR-In To run up in Ky.so I will not get to go,  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-20-2008 12:45 AM                       Hey, Jerry, I know that drive-in! Last time I was through there it had been closed for a while. I checked out your website and the place looks absolutely fantastic! You've done a great job with it. Btw, you could probably still hit Dayton this year... just have those kids run the place. Jeff... With the exception of an inverted-vee I had when I lived in Texas back in the mid-80s, I've always had to settle for indoor antennas. I've made some good contacts on them, but like you before me, I've not had much luck with them being consistent performers.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 04-16-2008 09:03 PM                       [bump] Just 30 days until the greatest Amateur Radio gathering in the world! Dayton Hamvention I'll be there for all three days this year. A friend from Kentucky and I are going up on Thursday night, so we can catch the opening on Friday!  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-09-2008 11:32 PM                       [bump again, if anyone's following this] Well, just a mere SIX DAYS until the Dayton Hamvention!! This is like Christmas for many ham radio operators every year - and I've been eagerly looking forward to this for several months. I can't wait to get back out there amongst the happy crowd, scope everything out, and bring back some good bargains. hihi See you there!  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 05-11-2008 01:16 PM                     Tim, can't make it his year The usual gang I attend with are all off on vacations/trips, etc. and I will be going on a week-long vacation the following week so need to save a few bucks for that. You have a great time. Maybe we'll see you there next year. Long range forecast looks to be for dry weather, although somewhat cool. 73 Jeff W9GY  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-23-2008 07:22 PM                       Sorry to hear you couldn't make it, Jeff. Friday morning started off with some drizzle, but it quickly left as Hamvention got underway. We ended up having dry weather all three days! As bad luck would have it, I pulled a tendon in my leg while carrying our luggage to the room on Thursday, so I was limping until Saturday evening. But we were still able to cover the entire fleamarket this time, most of inside, and even managed to take-in a forum -- with a lot of breaks to sit down because of my leg, and my buddy's back. It was funny in a way. I told him we're like a couple of old men, all broken down. Neither one of us won anything (though someone with a ticket just three digits off from mine won a door prize). Hope to see you at Hamvention 2009!  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 06-01-2008 06:59 AM                     Ouch Tim, sorry to hear about that. No fun limping over those great distances. I've heard some reports that there was lots of vintage stuff there this year with not too bad prices, either. Oh well. My guess is that my usual group will be available next year and we'll make the trek to the Hamvention. Meantime, hope you get some on-air activity going and we'll hear you on the radio. 73 Jeff W9GY  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-05-2009 03:20 PM                       Well, just three short months until Hamvention 2009! I can't wait! Hope our fellow Film-Tech hams can make it this year.  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-06-2009 06:15 AM                     Be careful carrying the luggage this time, OK?  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 02-08-2009 07:37 AM                     Don't know yet if I'll be attending, Tim. I'll keep you posted. Jeff W9GY  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-08-2009 08:37 AM                     I say "Ham On 5 Hold The Mayo"! WOW! I bet Dayton becomes pocket protector central for a couple of days! I'm not a Ham ... just an electronics guy who doesn't have time to be a ham. For you Hams that live out in the Western States there is a yearly Ham-Fest at Bryce Canyon... The wife and kids can go hike the canyon trails while you enjoy the fest! I've attended it a couple of times myself over the years... personally its a tough decision to go to the fest or hike down into the canyon so I decided last time to spend one day at the fest and one day down in the canyon! Bryce Canyon Ham Fest (Not my photos... just some I found on the web....)  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-08-2009 05:16 PM                       quote: John Wilson Be careful carrying the luggage this time, OK? Heheh, I will. Thanks, John. Jeff, yes, please let me know. Hope you can make it there this year, and we can set up an eyeball sked. Funny thing happened a couple weeks ago, fwiw. The ringtone on my company phone contains my callsign in Morse Code, and it calls "CQ" to me. I was in a booth working on an installation when my phone went off. I had my hands full, so it had to ring through the whole "CQ" sequence. Later, when I was out in the auditorium, a manufacturer's rep asked me if I was a ham. Forgetting about the ringtone, I asked him how he knew. He said he copied my callsign when my phone rang! I thought that was so cool!  |  IP: Logged

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