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   AMATEUR_RADIO      Ham radio for when Armageddon strikes      2,531 messages   

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   Orbitman to All   
   getting everything in shape...   
   06 Aug 17 20:33:30   
   
   I've been getting my station back into shape the last couple of weeks. I had   
   a period of "non-interest" in ham radio for the last couple of years.   
      
   I took the entire station apart today and rearranged it a bit.  Looks better   
   now and it's a bit more comfortable.   
      
   My station consists of an older beast-of-a-radio Kenwood TS-940S hf rig, a   
   Yaesu FT-900 hf radio and an old ADI AR-146 2 meter radio.  Antennas are a   
   half-wave 20 meter dipole, a half-wave 75/80 meter dipole (which works very   
   well on 40 meters too) and a copper j-pole antenna for 2 meters. No external   
   tuner. Both hf radios have internal tuners that do the job just fine.   
      
   Band conditions have been so-so lately, coming and going as they do. I've   
   been spending time on 20 meters and 75/80 meters mostly and chatting with   
   some locals on the 2 meter repeater.   
      
   Everything is working nicely and I've made almost a dozen hf contacts in the   
   last few days :)   
      
   My callsign is: KG4CNA. Maybe we'll run into each other one day!   
      
   Thanks!   
   Orbitman (Allen)   
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