Sunday, August 17, 2008

Radio Shack

My shack currently has
I am using an IC2200H as my base rig. The antenna is a GTComm 5/8th lambda facing SSE and a clear view of South.
My antenna is mounted on the 10th Floor window -- roughly 43m height.
My normal power output is 5W.

Station Activity

The Matheran repeater (MT) can be triggered (145.00 MHz +600Khz shift) conveniently and the Mumbai repeater (BT) also has a 59+ reception.
Checked into the Night owls net on 15th and 16th of August with Wispy and Pervez as the Net controllers.
QSO's so far:
VU2UPQ - Uday, (MT)
VU2WSM - Satish, (MT)
VU2UBQ - Jayant (RST +57 at 1W simplex at 144.800 MHz) ,
VU2SGW - Sai (MT) ,
VU2IIA - Mahesh (MT),
VU2PJM - Perviz (MT) along with VU2UBP - Ullas.
Want to shift to CW soon.

73
Akshay

Friday, August 15, 2008

Radioactive

VU2BUG station is now active. I had my first QSO with VU2UBP on VHF. Still waiting for my HF set.