I am forwarding this onto the list, because the reply went directly to me.
Keep in mind that Maurice is losing much of his hearing and the message was
dictated. First is my reply:
Hello KD0IKO. I'm sorry that I won't be on the air this afternoon. During
the months when Daylight Saving Time is in effect, the 20 and 40 meter
roundtables meet at 2000Z, or 1 PM Pacific Daylight Time. Conditions
haven't been very good on 20 the last few weeks, especially for
coast-to-coast QSOs at 2000Z. So even if I was on, I probably wouldn't hear
you.
I hope you can find some info about the DJG7 FM rig. I suspect it may not
help much on your bus rides, because my impression is that activity on
2-meter FM is not as much as it once was. I hope we can find a way for you
and your friends to get into digital modes, but the most accessible system
at this time is still CW.
Anyway, look for the net on 14258 at 2000Z today. I don't know who will be
running it, and how copiable they will be in Washington.
73,
Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, MD
http://lras.home.sprynet.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Maurice Mines
Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 11:05 PM
To: Lloyd Rasmussen
Subject: Re: Calling CQ on 7203
Hello Lloyd reading this message makes me think of what I should've sent you
last week. I will try and checking on the cross country Blind offs net. But
20 is just been so good hearing the last no that's a real misnomer I'm being
sarcastic. That at times I can't hear the net at all. Let's see if the
sunspots are with us tomorrow. Just as an aside anyone happen to have a
means of getting inaccessible version of an Alinco manual? Because I'm
dictating this to my phone I'm going to use phonetics for the model number
it is a Delta Juliet – golf seven. If anyone happens to have any thing like
that please feel free to send an email to my call again phonetically because
I'm using the phone Keo Delta zero Indiana kilo Oscar at ARL.net.
Unfortunately when I went to my local 80 correction my local ham radio
outlet store which is in Oregon I live in Southwest Washington my choices
were all the bells and whistles with everything that any Sydenham could ever
want in a handheld or the very basic a.k.a. the bordering on Chinese radio
very hard to program in less you have a computer. In fact all of it is going
them the road of the computer. What I'm getting at here. Is that in less we
or someone really begins to push on making amateur radio programming
software expressible we might one day find ourselves on the outside looking
in when it comes to buying a handheld. It's just a pretty big fear of mine.
So far I've gotten the Delta Juliet – both seven to play somewhat so to
speak. At least I had enough time before he left the hotel Romeo Oscar store
to get it for repeaters put into the memory. And I figured out that the
radio has two very distinctive be oppose it fortunately correspond to the
two knobs on the top and that's about as far as I've gotten. I still need to
figure out how to listen to the thing privately if I'm say on a bus
committing to where I go to school/work at Portland community college in the
Sylvania campus is roughly an hour and a half to an hour and three-quarter
three bus ride from home to where I need to be. Another words there are
times when I'm just sitting on the bus waiting for traffic to move along. 73
to everybody and like I said let's see if the sunspot cycle is going to
agree with us all tomorrow at around 21 hundred UTC. Just seven aside from
taking sign language classes I has to professor what do you do when you for
many reasons be to function on 24 hour time. Well and the deaf world there's
no such thing as 24 hour time. It may explain explaining times like aren't
that time and other things in amateur radio very interesting. I'm gotten one
deaf person to be interested in possibly running the digital modes and she's
quite interested. She asked me in sign language what do I do with my tango
Sierra 480. You just say I've learned many country signs. Again 73 let's see
how it all works out tomorrow afternoon. Have a good one everybody? Look
forward to meeting some of the responses you're on the list.
Sincerely, Maurice Mines.
Student accessibility aid.
Voicemail phone, 360-524-0791.
Work/school email address, [log in to unmask]
Amateur radio call sign, kd0iko.
Note I'm using dictation for the contents of this document, or email.
Please excuse any errors as they may be the result of the software, or the
dictation process.
> On May 31, 2014, at 7:23 PM, Lloyd Rasmussen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Jim, you were just at my noise level, also. Not really copiable at that
> time.
> 73,
>
>
> Lloyd Rasmussen, W3, Kensington, MD
> http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Shaffer
> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 10:00 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Calling CQ on 7203
>
> Guess I'm just too far west to make it in with my vertical. I can hear
> stations in there, but only heard wb9r, and that was spotty. I did hear
> Lloyd a bit, but just a bit.
> --
> Jim, KE5AL
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Forst
> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 8:09 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Calling CQ on 7203
>
> Lloyd and a few of us have dropped down to 7.202
> 73, Steve KW3A
>
>> On 5/31/2014 8:58 PM, Lloyd Rasmussen wrote:
>> I am going to start calling CQ on 7203.0. The frequency sounds clear
>> here
>> on the east coast, but who knows further west.
>> 73,
>>
>>
>> Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Kensington, MD
>> http://lras.home.sprynet.com
>>
>>
>>
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