Radio demonstration near me
From
Stormin Mormon@cayoung61@hotmail.com to
alt.ham-radio on Sat May 9 21:37:57 2015
From Newsgroup: alt.ham-radio
Saturday May 09, 2015
This morning, went to a demo on amatuer radio, and
emergency services. I found three fellows, who were
set up with radios, tables, literature.
Norm, gave me some literature. He had a Baofeng
UVR-3, tiny little thing. He was on URMC repeater,
talking with Frank from England. Norm asked if I
was / am amatuer radio (the handi talkie I was
holding gave it away). He let me use his HT, and
now I've got a distance contact.
Other chatted a few minutes. Didn't say much.
Third fellow was using solar panels to chage Eneloop
cells. He had a gel cell battery in his rolling
knapsack, connected to a 80 meter radio. Antenna
laying on the ground. Said he could reach "only a
few hundred miles" with the antenna on the ground.
Poor guy, only a few hundred miles. He's got a
weight and fishing line, if he wanted to string
antenna higher.
On the way home, I did tune the repeater, but
didn't get to chat with Norm or Frank.
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Christopher A. Young
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