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Tim Sherman
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 125
From: North Ridgeville, OH, USA
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 10-01-2001 12:57 AM

I was just curious to find out how many are on this forum that are ham radio operators. I am currently studing for my test and figured there would be alot of people in this field into amature radio. projectionist's like me and the techs. There is alot in the two fields that are interlinked in my opinion. Everyone could also maybe post their callsigns on this forum. Maybe it would be an easy way for some of the people to have some fun and talk with eachother.

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Don Sneed
Master Film Handler

Posts: 451
From: Texas City, TX, USA
Registered: Aug 2001

posted 10-01-2001 04:24 AM

Hello Tim from KA5QQI, but I haven't got on the air since I work in Japan, & Guam....only 2-meters, I live in Texas City, Texas 40 miles south of Houston on the Gulf coast, When I'm home that is....

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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 10-01-2001 02:03 PM

Nah....Just a radio station engineer trying to keep an old 10KW collins, and old 1KW ITA, and a Nautel Amfet 5 on the air. All are AM transmitters.

Paul

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Paul Mayer
Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under!

Posts: 3836
From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 10-01-2001 11:31 PM

N7FJF here, just a Technician Plus. 2m only, in and around Las Vegas, NV as of Thursday afternoon.

For what it's worth, I also have a General Radiotelephone with Ship Radar Endorsement. Never have used it (in broadcast TV I've always been a baseband, rather than RF, guy). But it's a nice credential to have anyway!

Cheers,

Paul

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Peter Berrett
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 602
From: Victoria, Australia
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 10-02-2001 02:36 AM

Up until recently I was VK3PZ (I have not renewed my license due to more interest in the Internet). I hold an AOCP (Amateur Operators Certificate of Proficiency which is Full Call theory and Morse.

Good luck with your exams Tim

cheers Peter

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Paul G. Thompson
The Weenie Man

Posts: 4718
From: Mount Vernon WA USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 10-02-2001 02:53 AM

Dah Di Dah Dit, Dah Dah Di Dah.

Di Dha Dah Dit, Dit Dah, Dit Dit Dah, Di Dah Dit Dit

Jeeze, it has been a long time. For you hams, did I spell it right? If you don't use it, you'll lose it.

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Paul Mayer
Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under!

Posts: 3836
From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 10-02-2001 10:33 PM

.--. .- ..- .-.. -.. . -. --... ..-. .--- ..-.

Jeez

Isn't it funny how CW is so hard on the eyes to read,
but flows so easily to the ears once you get used to it
(at least at 13 WPM, about all I was ever good for).

--... ...--
73

N7FJF--Fat Japanese Flyer

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Pete Naples
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1565
From: Dunfermline, Scotland
Registered: Feb 2001

posted 01-26-2004 08:46 AM

I passed my Foundation RAE over the weekend, don't know my callsign yet, but it's likely to be (unconfirmed at this stage)
Mike Three Sierra India November. Or MM3SIN with secondary locator for Scotland in use. This gives me basically all bands and modes, but limited to 10w.

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Mark J. Marshall
Film God

Posts: 3188
From: New Castle, DE, USA
Registered: Aug 2002

posted 01-26-2004 11:57 AM

An old thread, but what the hell....

N3QNJ here. Tech plus. All 2 meters for me. Speaking of which, I need to renew this year I think!

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William Hooper
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1879
From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-27-2004 12:47 AM

Brace for the pictures of directional AM transmitter arrays.

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Jeff Stricker
Master Film Handler

Posts: 481
From: Calumet, Mi USA
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 01-27-2004 06:28 AM

I'm W9GY. Been on the air for 33 years now. Most of my operating these days has been using old boatanchors I've restored (the tubes add some warmth these winter nights). I operate phone & CW, and you can catch me on 40 phone in late afternoons around 7.190 +/-

73 Jeff

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System Notices
Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi

Posts: 215

Registered: Apr 2004

posted 03-22-2005 10:03 AM

It has been 420 days since the last post.

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Jarryd Beard
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Posts: 229
From: Hellertown, PA
Registered: Jul 2004

posted 03-22-2005 10:03 AM

(From the new thread I started. I searched, honest, no results came back. Is there a time limit on searches?)

I've had my technician class license since 1999. Please, anyone feel free to kick me in the ass to take the CW exam. Hopefully this summer, when I'm away from college life, I'll motivate myself. Anyway, I figure Ham radio must come as second nature to many of us "weird" projectionists.

KB3EFC

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Paul Mayer
Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under!

Posts: 3836
From: Albuquerque, NM
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 03-22-2005 12:11 PM

What string did you use for your search Jarryd? I found this old thread using "ham radio".

Looks like I let my Technician Plus lapse back in 1999. Must say I didn't use it at all for quite a few years and hadn't realized it had expired. Maybe I'll study to get it back some day. I was N7FJF on 2m; also operated as Black Bear 138 or Northwind 7 on 148.15/143.9 and 4185 USB when talking for the USAF Auxiliary (CAP).

Morse is fun to learn, even if it is an all-but-dead medium these days. And I actually used it when I was flying. It's not a requirement to know it in order to fly, but it was nice not having to visually check the various navigation station IDs against the charts.

73

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Jarryd Beard
Expert Film Handler

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From: Hellertown, PA
Registered: Jul 2004

posted 03-22-2005 12:18 PM

Well, I just tried "amateur" and then "ham". I didn't realize the search only displays a maximum of 300 results, or I would have narrowed it down. Oh well, thanks for finding this thread, Paul.

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