Hey Ivan!

Congrats on your new ticket and welcome to one of the greast hobies in the
world!

73 Keith-WA9DRO

At 04:33 PM 12/30/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>    Here is an (unrelated) two part question:
>
>1.    I'm curious what others use to take SWR readings without any sighted
>assistance; is there a prefered talking meter out there, or even something
>that connect to a PC via serial cable?  I"d like something that doesn't
>need to have a radio inline (just in case) but I'll take what I can get.
>
>2.    I passed my technician exam on the 19th of December and got my call
>(kc0osk) by the 22nd!  I'd like to start using IRLP (we have a reflector
>in Denver, CO and a connected repeater) - from what I understand, anyone
>is welcomed to talk on the repeater, but only certain folks seem to have
>the various DTMF codes to connect and disconnect with other nodes.  Maybe
>this varies from repeater to repeater, but what are typical practices RE:
>properly obtaining and using the DTMF codes (i.e. donations, sign up as an
>IRLP member)?  I looked around on the IRLP site and the codes are
>mentioned a lot, but not lots of info exists about how you go about
>getting them.
>
>Thanks,
>Ivan.

Keith-WA9DRO
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