[HamGateNY] Welcome to HamGateNY

[Rick Critcher]

Greetings,
The name here is Rick, KB2LFZ.

My background....
I got my first ham license in 1979 ( I think ), after moving to
this area from Western NY I got rather involved in my job and well,
kind of forgot to renew my ticket! Yeah, I had to start all over!

I joined the Saratoga RACES club, after becoming reincarnated as KB2LFZ,
(am currently a member of the Warren County club W2WCR)
I became interested in packet radio, a PK88, a dumb terminal and an
old Genave crystal controlled radio served as our home station. I also
had a Baycom "tnc", a very primitive laptop and a Kenwood HT. I used
that system to do some demonstrations to my kids' elementary school
classes...they were a big hit!

My career took another big bite of my time, and I am just now getting
involved yet again! I think for good this time as I am now semi-retired!

Currently we (my wife is KB2LOM) don't have much in the way of gear,
a mobile 2 meter in the truck and 2 dual band (2m + 440) HTs....oh,
my PK88 is still in the basement someplace!

Recently, with help from AJ2A, I tried to set up a packet
monitor on my Linux Mint laptop using an RTL-SDR...it worked,
but not well enough to really use, We live in a dead spot!

We've put together a mobile AREDN node that I hope to have
backpackable within the next month. There are not many AREDN
nodes in the area, I was thinking if there was a need I could get
ours into an area to fill a gap pretty quickly.

I also dabble in Arduino stuff and Geocaching.

So there ya have it!

I'm really hoping to learn some things from reading
this group's messages!

73 de Rick - KB2LFZ

On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 10:12 PM Nate Berry <nate at k3ltc.com> wrote:

> Hey all!  I'm a relatively new ham (2018), General.
> However I do not, as yet, even own an HF rig. This is something I hope to
> remedy soon!
> I work in IT in the fire industry so digital modes and radio networking
> are interesting to me.
> I'm a linux user and advocate, amateur programmer, and web developer.
> I am a member of the Suffolk County Radio Club and run the website for
> that group (and twitter).
> I have an allocation (thanks Charles!), but to date haven't gotten back to
> actually using my IPs.
> That is another thing I hope (with your help) to remedy someday.
>
> --
> *Nate*
> K3LTC
> https://www.k3ltc.com
>


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