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I've been an amateur radio operator since 2011, Extra Class. Most of my work lately has been CW and digital modes, 160 - 40M. In the past I did a lot of park work but now I'm pretty exclusively night time operation from my house. 84ft random wire running up to 100W.
A short gemlog of stuff I've done on the radio.
QTH is in SW suburbs of Minneapolis. I usually work HF or hit up the Insomniacs Net on the Oakdale Repeater (146.8500/-0.6 MHz) at midnight between Saturday and Sunday.
From my home QTH I qm usually running an Yaesu FT-897 for most modes. I have run portable off batteries with it, but for being a 100W portable rig its quite heavy. My other HF rig is a YouKits HB-1B 4 Band CW transceiver.
For my digital interface I have been running a home brew setup. Created an attenuator circuit, dead bug style, and connected it to jacks from headphones and the cable from an old PS/2 keyboard. It has worked well for over a decade but I finally decided to get a real interface with CAT control. DigiRig kept showing up in conversation, fits both my wallet and is super small. Works well so far for FT8, PSK and if someone actually responds one of these days SSTV.
Door County Amateur Radio Club
For those looking for club contacts I'm members of the following:
As I don't have a ham shack, I need to setup my HF rig on the dining room table. This means only playing radio at night time, when everyone is asleep. As of late I have been pretty much confined to Digital and CW modes. I can usually be found 05:00 UTC and on 160-20m bands working either FT-8 or VARA HF.
I'm also on DMR. Most repeaters around here are BM connected, but I also have a hotspot where I'm on TGIF and DMR+. Try to hit up a few nets through out the week but its usually hit or miss due to kids.
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