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09-16-2008, 08:42 AM
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#201
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FFWilliston
2021 30RB Classic
Myrtle Beach
, South Carolina
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 18
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Amateur Radio
Greetings from AF4MB (Air Force for Myrtle Beach) in Myrtle Beach, SC. Am installing a Yaesu FT-8900 in our Airstream. Perhaps later, when (if) I talk the boss into it, I will also install all-band HF SSB capability. 73s, Fred
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09-17-2008, 05:47 PM
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#202
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2 Rivet Member
1992 34' Excella
riverhead
, New York
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 72
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Hello All,
Joe from Riverhead, Long Island, New York!
KC2RAR
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09-20-2008, 05:26 AM
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#203
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3 Rivet Member
2007 34' Classic S/O
Hillsboro
, Texas
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 115
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Ham radio forever
I've been licensed as W9CJX since 1961, had a Airstream trailer since 1991, and a member of WBCCI (#4432) since 1993. I currently have a 1999 Excella 34 ft. that I tow with a 2005 Dodge Ram 3500 Cummins diesel dually. I have a Yaesu FT-1500 2M FM transceiver permanently installed in the trailer above the dinette and a 2m quarter wave antenna on the refrigerator roof vent. Total coax length from radio to antenna: 6 ft. I also use a Yaesu FT-847 in the trailer with the Yaesu ATAS-100 auto tuning antenna on a pole at the rear of the trailer. The mounting arrangement is my own design and photos are available if anyone is interested. I remove the antenna when traveling and screw it onto the mount when the trailer is hooked up. I use an power supply for the radio, however, I installed a 12 VDC feed in a '91 trailer I had before 2006. I've had great results with the antenna and radio, working Europe (France, Wales, Italy, etc.) on 20M SSB getting 57 reports running 100 watts. The aluminum counterpoise works great!!!
The WBCCI Amateur Radio Club, call WB8RC, is still active and is responsible for the RV service nets that are currently active on 20M & 40M. The do have 2M nets at rallies (International) and welcome local check ins to their nets.
I'm also a vendor, Premier Aqua Solutions, and I travel to RV shows and rallies of other brand RV's and clubs. For example, the Holiday Rambler RV club has 2M nets at their international rally. They have always welcomed me to check in even though I don't have an HR brand RV.
John Green
Eureka, Illinois college home of former president Ronald Reagan
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09-20-2008, 11:07 AM
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#204
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Rivet Master
2019 27' Tommy Bahama
Roseville
, California
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 679
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Welcome to the AirForums, John! Thanks for the info about the WBCCI Amateur Radio Club....now that I am a WBCCI member, I plan to go check it out.
My uncle and aunt are Holiday Rambler owners, and they go every year to the HR events....their group doesn't seem to have political upheaval going on that WBCCI has. They encouraged us to join WBCCI or the FMCA (I think only motorhomes can join that group).
btw.....this thread has lit the spark under me to order the General Manual and study for my upgrade! I easily passed the written back in 1991 or 1992, but I never got my code speed up....then, life kind of got in the way. Now, it's time!
73's
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2011 GMC 3500HD Duramax
AIR #6287
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09-20-2008, 11:20 AM
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#205
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Rivet Master
2001 34' Limited
The State of
, Ohio
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 1,605
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I should add my wife, Barbara, got her Tech on Valentines Day 2008. Then she attended a local course for General and aced that as well. She plans to learn code this winter. Her call is W8FCJ.
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09-20-2008, 12:15 PM
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#206
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Rivet Master
1995 25' Excella
1961 26' Overlander
1982 34' Limited
Albuquerque
, New Mexico
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 740
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jwgreen
I have a Yaesu FT-1500 2M FM transceiver permanently installed in the trailer above the dinette and a 2m quarter wave antenna on the refrigerator roof vent. Total coax length from radio to antenna: 6 ft. I also use a Yaesu FT-847 in the trailer with the Yaesu ATAS-100 auto tuning antenna on a pole at the rear of the trailer. The mounting arrangement is my own design and photos are available if anyone is interested. I remove the antenna when traveling and screw it onto the mount when the trailer is hooked up.
John Green
Eureka, Illinois college home of former president Ronald Reagan
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Hi John,
Please do post your photos.
I park my AS in a garage and the limited overhead clearance prevents any permanent antenna mount on the roof.
Jerry
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KE5CKG on 2 meters
AIR #10274
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09-23-2008, 09:37 PM
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#207
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1 Rivet Member
1973 Argosy 26
Bemus Point
, New York
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 6
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Hi,
N2MTW in SW NY with a 73 Argosy getting set up for full timing next summer I hope. Have a IC-746 in trailer and 706 in truck. I bungee several sections of aluminum conduit to the awning wraparound to hook togather for mast to hook diapole center point to for HF. Have a fold down CB antenna and a 2m/440 mag mount on a high nickle stainless plate riveted to the roof of the Argosy for 10m, vhf and uhf.
Steve
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09-23-2008, 10:23 PM
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#208
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Rivet Master
1997 30' Limited
1972 23' Safari
1965 17' Caravel
Howell
, Michigan
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 2,071
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Dont know if I ever posted on this thread or not.. Hello to all from KW8G In Michigan!!
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09-25-2008, 12:48 PM
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#209
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3 Rivet Member
1966 30' Sovereign
Bethany
, Illinois
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 136
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Hello all,
Still new to the forum. My dad has his liscense. N9SFA, I think, in Indiana. He used to be the Pres. of his club. I keep encouraging him to get an A/S. He tells me he doesn't want to work on something for recreation and doesn't want to spend the money on a newer one. Told him it would be great at 'Field Day'(that's what he calls it) the last weekend in June, and the Rally's would be great for him and my Mom as well. He also says he has to get rid of the Vette before getting one. Does anyone know of someone looking to trade their A/S for a '74 Vette? I will probably have to start a new thread for that. I will have to keep working on him. I see quite a few going up for sale this time of year.
Cory
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10-05-2008, 10:48 AM
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3 Rivet Member
1975 24' Argosy 24
Burlington
, Ontario
Join Date: May 2003
Posts: 109
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VE3CZN /VE3RAE Been a Amateur since 1961 I took my rig with me across Canada to Victoria Island and to Signal hill in Newfoundland. My vehicle transmissin started to give me trouble in the Island so when I got home I wrote an account of the trip and named it to the Pacific and back on one transmission. Yuk Yuk.
When on signal hill Newfoundland, I thought my rig was down , BUT it was just the absense of noise. worked 5 European countries on 75. Locals came up and drank a galloon of Rum. (of course). Had a great time. Fog rolled in and I could not see the step on the Arosgy.
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Rae
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11-24-2008, 10:26 PM
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#211
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2 Rivet Member
1974 27' Overlander
Grants Pass
, Oregon
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 45
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Ni7i
Howdy,
Am going up state to pick up my 75 27ft Overlander/International mid December. Just retired from being a Radio Officer in the merchant marine. Originally baught the airstream because I'm too lazy to build a regular ham shack. All these years I have only hammed aboard ship. Now we plan on traveling a bit. Anyhow will be loading the trailer with a TS2000 and an AL1500 plus a sb220 backup. For an antenna I plan on a butternut for home and a 30 foot comercial alumanum whip with an SGC coupler for on the road..
73
Lee
NI7I
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11-25-2008, 07:45 AM
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Rivet Master
1973 27' Overlander
Loganville
, Georgia
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 1,741
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I have always been interested in ham radios and cb's but never have owned either. What are the benefits and fun things with these types of radios. I have the cell phone but I was wondering what additional things you get from these types of other radios.
Lothlorian
Brian
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11-25-2008, 04:47 PM
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Rivet Master
2019 27' Tommy Bahama
Roseville
, California
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 679
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pixiehat
For an antenna I plan on a butternut for home and a 30 foot comercial alumanum whip with an SGC coupler for on the road.
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Back in the early 1990's, when I first got my ham ticket, I worked 120+ countries on 10 meters (phone only), using a Butternut antenna. It works even better if you can elevate it and add a bunch of radials. In the Airstream, we use the DK-3 antenna built by W6AAQ, which uses a cordless screwdriver motor to tune the antenna to the various frequencies.
73's, N6ZWC
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2011 GMC 3500HD Duramax
AIR #6287
TAC #CA-26
WBCCI #3933/4CU
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11-25-2008, 11:12 PM
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2 Rivet Member
1974 27' Overlander
Grants Pass
, Oregon
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 45
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Been using verticals aboard ship for 25 years. Probably work DXCC everytime I make a trip. Since I dont really have room for any wire or a tower, a vertical is what I'll use now. Traveling it's also the logical choice but in this case it will be a 30 ft aluminum whip with an SGC coupler.
73
Lee
NI7I
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11-26-2008, 12:04 AM
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Rivet Master
1978 31' Excella 500
Genoa
, Nevada
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 1,554
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lothlorian
I have always been interested in ham radios and cb's but never have owned either. What are the benefits and fun things with these types of radios. I have the cell phone but I was wondering what additional things you get from these types of other radios.
Lothlorian
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Brian, just read this thread and you'll get an idea about Ham radio. You'll see lots of unknown friends out there to give you directions, advice, assistance, from lots more bands of frequencies than the Citizens Band is allowed. Citizens Band is actually one small part of one Ham Radio band that was carved out years ago.
With CB you can communicate with close by folks, but anything more than line of sight is quite iffy. Ham Radio you can communicate around the world with a little experience. Using locally owned repeaters on hilltops you can talk over that hill to the next valley, or the next state. You can dial certain repeaters and patch into an internet connection and come out on a repeater in England or some other state if you want, I was listening to that some here last year.
CB is allowed legally 5 watts power, with Ham Radio you can use up to 1500 watts in certain bands. Some folks are into bouncing messages off the moon. Most of the astronauts are Ham licensed and regularly talk to Ham Radio operators, sometimes they give science lessons to earthbound classrooms on a Ham radio. You can listen to the space station when it goes overhead. (Not on CB I don't believe). R/C (radio controlled) airplanes are on Ham bands I believe.
Some folks are into the contesting, seeing how many contacts they can make around the world on a contest weekend. Around here I hear some hikers and mountain bikers using Ham radio.
Ham radio has little swearing, enforced by fines and loss of license. CB, well. I stopped listening to CB years ago for the swearing so I don't know.
Ham Radio is lots of fun, with all kinds of specialty areas you can specialize in if you want to.
N7YS
Perry
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11-26-2008, 04:38 AM
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#216
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Rivet Master
1971 31' Sovereign
1967 22' Safari
1958 22' World Traveler
Pardeeville
, Wisconsin
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 569
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Theres also DIFFERENT ways of communicating with other hams...Morse code, voice, sending data from station to staion(packet), teletype(keyboarding with another station), bouncing signals off the moon, using the internet to talk through distant repeaters. Thats just a few....Im involved in ARES/RACES which is Amateur Radio Emergency Services. This past summer the local sheriffs dept utilized our county wide group to assist security due the extensive flooding in central Wisconsin. Overall, its a much more technically skilled group than youll find on CB....
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WBCCI #10917
AIR #32349
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12-08-2009, 04:32 AM
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#217
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3 Rivet Member
1968 17' Caravel
Marblehead
, Hasslechusetts
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 146
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W1RC from VT is QRV.....
73,
MisterMike
All Airstreamers are welcome at NEAR-Fest,
Best Hamfest on the Planet!
www.near-fest.com
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At the Beautiful Deerfield NH Fairgrounds (Next one May 4th and 5th 2018)
"Best #@! Hamfest on the Planet!"
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12-09-2009, 06:01 AM
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#218
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2 Rivet Member
1992 34' Excella
riverhead
, New York
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 72
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KC2RAR for the winter at Travelers Rest Resort in Dade City Florida.
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12-09-2009, 02:28 PM
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#219
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Rivet Master
1997 30' Limited
1972 23' Safari
1965 17' Caravel
Howell
, Michigan
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 2,071
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KW8G In Michigan checking in....
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12-13-2009, 07:10 PM
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#220
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Branson
1993 30' Excella
1993 29' Excella
Branson
, Missouri
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 3
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K0lgt since 1956
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