Ramblings by Chase

I have something more substantial coming down the pipe as far as entries are concerned, but I thought I’d share this while I was thinking about it. During Thanksgiving my father and I redid the way that my FT-8800R (thanks dad!) is mounted in the car, along with cable routing. I took some pictures throughout the process and have the posted on Flickr! with a bunch of tags like ft8800r, install, radio … here’s a quick link that should grab them (and maybe a few others, who knows). See if you can spot where we had a problem that stumped us for an hour or so.

If you are on campus and are restricted to an HT (that atleast has 440 capabilities), feel free to use the new crossband repeat capabilities of my new radio. Simply use 445.750 simplex whenever my radio is in range and you should get through to the 146.640 repeater here in town (it’s where most of the activity is at).

Imagine my suprise (and elation) when this showed up at my door yesterday. Dad had sent me a UPS tracking number just 30 minutes before without telling me what it was that was arriving. Way too cool! There are more pictures on my Flickr page tagged ft8800r.

Jimbo’s callsign made it into the FCC database today. He’s now officially KE5HSE. So, if anyone sees him in, ah, Isreal, let him know. Congratulations man!