Comments | kevin_standlee: Saturday at Sea-Pac

kevin_standlee

Saturday at Sea-Pac

Jun 06, 2009 18:58

I have now uploaded lots more photos to my Seaside Photo Set, and I'll be calling out many of them in this post, so don't complain if you click through the cuts below. Today was a pretty good, and eventually pretty lucky day.

( Welcome to Sea-Pac )

radio, seaside, diabetes, lisa

Comments 10

n5red June 7 2009, 03:46:46 UTC

I'm planning on going to Ham Com in Dallas next week. It's pitiful compared to to pictures you posted.

Hamfests in Texas are just so disappointing. I miss the ones in DC and surrounding areas.

I need to buy and install some new radios. I'm thinking of a Yaesu FT-8900. ANy comments or suggestions?

kevin_standlee June 7 2009, 05:18:57 UTC

Lisa says: "Sorry, when it comes to HF, I'm strictly Kenwood."

n5red June 7 2009, 05:30:18 UTC

The FT-8900 does 10M FM as its only HF, so I certainly wouldn't consider it a "real" HF rig. Running a real multimode HF rig mobile isn't something I have ever done. Given the prices, I may wind up going with a Softrock+Amplifier+Atom based mini-ITX+touch screen instead of buying an appliance.

My current HF rig is an Icom IC-730. I don't even want to think about using it mobile, having something with a remote head is just so much more practical these days.

kevin_standlee June 7 2009, 05:56:29 UTC

Lisa says: "I can understand those sentiments, but I run a Kenwood TS-120S multimode HF rig mobile. It's an old, medium-sized radio, but with its large, easy to hold knobs and switches, it is much easier to operate mobile, because I don't have to look at it much at all."

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_darkvictory June 7 2009, 04:07:38 UTC

I'm still puzzled that there isn't more overlap between SF fandom and ham radio. It's such a geeky hobby.

Vanessa KE6EQI

nojay June 7 2009, 22:27:02 UTC

GM8YWD here but not been active for a while.

Quite a few fans are amateurs but at SF cons it's not something that comes up much. Some of the US con tech folk use 2m and 70cm gear for keeping in touch around the hotels and such but the ops teams and techs in the UK use regular commercial walkie-talkies which they hire in for the event -- they're Somebody Else's Problem, they usually work and they go away at the end of the con.

katster June 8 2009, 19:29:59 UTC

Huh, Kevin, you must not have gotten your call much before my dad (KE6POR) did.

Looking at renewal dates, since the FCC doesn't seem to have original license grant dates in the database anymore, Dad got his in late 1994 or early 1995. I was about a year and a half behind him, as I seem to recall I got mine before I went off to college in 1996. Of course, by that time, they'd circulated through a decent chunk of the alphabet, as my call's KF6FXG.

(Yeah, I have one. I just don't use it much.)

-kat