Thanks. Ya gotta love white oakHoly wow! That is a smoke ring.
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You be too danged far away! If you ever get South of Springfield give me a shout and we'll meet up. The Prez of our Ham radio club lives in Lees Summit. He is a communications engineer for the MO HP up thereStill waitin on my Sammich Radio!:
I must have mis copied, OM. I came up with WA0YGH and that call is not in QRZdah di dah dit, dah dah di dah, dah di dah , dah dah di dah. di dah dah, di dah, dah dah dah dah dah , dah di dah dah, dah dah dit, di di di dit.....K
Hiya Bob. I suspect there are several amateur operators on here. Radio sure is a great past time, but at least with the smoking hobby we can munch on the resultsKA1TTG here... been on ham radio since the late 80s. Although I haven't been very active the last few years. I'm sure there more than a couple of us... brings new meaning to QTH.
I've tapered off a bit in the last couple of years, but was very active in emergency and disaster response. Haven't got into the storm chaser or spotter gig as I live close to 40 miles from a metro area of any size. We sure have had some bad Tornadoes here in Missouri the last few yearsNo, don't have any of my equipment anymore, cept for a CW practice rig thats around here somewhere.
Though I fell you on the button and knob rigs. Everything now is computerized and takes all the fun out of it. My Sgt would always apply for a portable license when we went overseas and we would set up our own station in country to call home with. We either had a local MARS station or we would set up another rig at our HQ with phone patch. Even had a guy in our unit whose wife had a baby while we were in Hondo. We got him hooked up with her as soon as she got back in her room.......Lots of teary eyes in the room that day.
The night Joplin got hit we had an EF2 hit the ridge just above the house and did a lot of damage. The neighbor and myself were up there most of the night cutting trees out of the road and checking on folks. Didn't even hear about Joplin until I got up the next morning. The one in Branson was a shock. I stay as far away from that town as possible. Every time I go through there I almost get killed by some tourist gawking and not paying attention to their drivingDown your way there's been some doosies. Up here.......Pretty quite.....Thank God!