CQ, CQ, CQ -- Calculator Fans

[Katie Wasserman]

I recently got my HF ham radio license and was wondering if there are any hams here that might be interested in forming a net (informal group) to talk about calculators (HP calculators mostly one would presume) on a regular basis.

I suspect that the intersection of: calculator fans, ham radio operators, people that like nets and that live within say a 1500 miles of me is quite small. So I'm not expecting a big response, it's just a thought.

73,

Katie (W2LP)

[bill platt]

W2LP de N3LPX
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N3LPX.

P.S. there are a lot of hams around here. I had an informal list going that I misplaced--over a dozen of them.

I think Bill (smithville) is one of them?, as is at least one of the Brasilians. Is it Gerson? I can't remember!

If my 10 meter rig weren't in storage! I'd get right out though I suspect we'd need 75 meters to hear each other.

[Bill (Smithville, NJ)]

Yep, I'm one also - just not too active at present.

Maybe we could do a net using EchoLink.

73,

Bill

WD9EQD

[Katie Wasserman]

Bill and Bill,

We're certainly in 75/80 meter range. Echolink is another possibility that would allow the rest of the world to participate, even if the flow of conversation isn't quite as smooth as HF is.

N3LPX it looks like you geocache too (?), maybe we can make it a calculator/Geocaching net :) BTW, my geocaching signature item (TeamKay) is an HP6S solar -- I got a boat load of them from a closeout place.

73,

W2LP

[bill platt]

Hi Katie.

I guess you googled my call sin. Wow, that's pretty funny! I have never geocached, but when I first heard of geocaching I posted to that forum. And there it is, found by google!

[Katie Wasserman]

Big Brother is really here.

[Dave Shaffer (Arizona)]

You didn't JUST get your license if your call is W2LP?!?! Have you been a Tech for a while?

73,

Dave W8MIF

[Katie Wasserman]

I got my tech license a few years ago, but just upgraded to general and extra (on the same day) when they dropped the code requirement. I've never been able to learn CW despite many attempts, so I was happy when the rules changed. The 1x2 call sign is a vanity call that I just got -- I was k1kdx and found that no one got that right the first 10 times I gave it on the air.

[Anthony L. Mach]

Congrats on the upgrade!

I had to put down the calculators for a few days here to work on an old Ten-Tec Triton IV. The PTO is stuck due to the not-so-sweet marriage of metal and plastic.

vy 73 de AB9IO sk sk..

Tony

[Charlie O.]

Hi Katie,

I haven't been licensed since 1959 when my interests turned to cars and bikes. My sign was KN0PFJ and would would have become K0PFJ had I continued. If I had your mail address I would like to send you something. You should have my email.

Charlie O. in Phoenix

[Katie Wasserman]

You've got mail.

[Bruce Bergman]

10 meters would be about the only way to communicate over my way, unless you're traveling. :-) I don't hang out on any of the lower bands these days. There's always packet!

N7HAW
bruce

(Congrats by the way!)

[Katie Wasserman]

Thanks Bruce.

10 meters, I guess if we can wait several years for the sun to do its thing. I haven't played with packet much, but I was thinking that real-time phone (or may SSTV) is what's missing from this forum.

73,

Katie