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T.J., N2SE wrote on 3 June 2007........
Wow, almost a year since the last post... (Aug '06) guess no one has
been doing any flying/talking on/in the air? I made a couple more
20M contacts in Jan/Feb over the Gulf coming back from Cancun,
chatted with one guy up in Anchorage and a number of East Coast
dwellers, but nothing since. I would like to make some lower freq
contacts but the Boeing radios only have AM and USB, so I'm kinda
limited to 14MHz and above.. I tried some CQ's on 75 and 40M but no
one came up to the other sideband :(
My own 706MkII in the truck has a problem now... seems every freq is
abt 125kc off between transmit to receive, even on HF, so I'll have
to make sure I dont have a wierd split programmed in, but after
several total factory resets and it's still doing it, I think some
logic board has a problem :( Right now, my repeater offsets are abt
725kc plus or minus and 125kc diff for 146.52. It isnt difficult to
make it work on repeaters, just takes math... but I was an English
major, so it usually takes a calculator to figure out my transmit
freq from the receive :)
Three weeks til Field Day, and I'm heading down to Cancun on
Saturday, coming back Sunday, so if anyone want to try to bag "NS2E,
Aeronautical Mobile" I can try to be up on 14.280 +/- (IAAH freq)
Saturday afternoon... Sunday I think we come back as Field Day ends
(abt 5pm PDT) so that'll prob be too late to count..
That's abt all I've got for an update from the Left Coast.. Anyone
one else doin anything?
73,
TJ, NS2E
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Hello all,
I've been doing pretty much just Pacific flying since my airline
started Hawaii service in December, PHX to OGG(Maui), KOA(Kona), HNL
(Honolulu) and LIH(Lihue).. I have been hanging around the upper
14,200's hoping to make some 20M contacts.. The Boeing radios in
the 757's are only USB and AM, so I'm kinda limited to the upper
bands(20/17/15m). I havent tried 75m AM yet, tho I've heard there
used to be quite a bit of AM activity. In February, I got a nasty
comment from someone about using the wrong sideband on 40m.. <sigh>,
in every group there's gotta be one to to complain about the
sunshine...
One evening back in January, I was over MSY at 350, enroute to PHX
from FLL, dialing around 20m trying to see what was out there. I
came across a QSO with a KH6 station and another station I couldnt
hear. I waited till the KH6 signed and threw out my call, he came
back to me, said he was on the north shore of Oahu.. Plugged HNL
into the computer and it said approx 3890 miles.. Just a little
under 4000, at 400w, at FL350, not bad... 'Gotta be my longest
contact I think. Chatted for a few minutes, swapped numbers, said
good luck and signed... Immediately a pileup started.. man, you'd
think people had never talked to a plane before ;) After abt an
hour of "Field Day" kind of pile-ups, I told everyone I had to get
back to flying but thanked them all for the contacts..
'Was a lot of fun and tho I've got domestic transcon trips for July,
and prob August, I'll try to get on 20m as often as I can. Are
there many others out making HF contacts? The guys I fly with (non-
hams) are pretty jazzed hearing me talk around the country, tho
you'd think their own calls to SFO and NY Radio would impress
them... naw, it seems talking to everyday people perks their
interest in our hobby.
Does anyone get grief from the guys you fly with being on the HF?
Listenin' 14200-14300..
TJ, NS2E
AWA(USAir now), B757
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