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hollykingLast night I made my first contact using the new station setup. Well, I was unable to contact one net that was being held but I was able to contact other stations on other repeaters. I'm not sure if I had the settings right for the repeater used by the Nine O'Clock Net. Another possibility is that 5W isn't enough power to reach the repeater from my QTH. Tonight I'll verify the settings and see if I can join the net again.
One of my favorite radio activities has been traffic handling. There is a lot more traffic activity in Portland than I've found here. So far I've only found one net for passing traffic but it's at 17:30 and I'm rarely around my station at that time. I wonder if I can connect with the K7LED repeater using the VX-5R. I'll have to try that tonight.
Ok, enough rambling about radio stuff. For now...
73 de KD7LAH
