Cruise the Legend

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Classic cars the group that does this calls it Cruise the Legend here in Cheyenne, WY. This was just a fun thing to try getting cars clear and background blurry.

Hello from Wyoming.

Introductions I am not the best at, but here goes.
My name is Mary from Cheyenne Wyoming.
I got my Ham license in Aug 2022, General. I enjoy DMR, but I do have an icom 718. My husband Don got his License in July 2022.
We enjoy foam electric RC planes, photography, target shooting and Ham is our new hobby. We do have a camper, that sits in storage currently. Maybe this year we can take it out to some favorite spots here in Wyoming and share pictures and adventures.
I look forward to talking with the rest of the group.

73
Mary KK7IAA

VT Winter Campfire

got out with my kid to go have a small campfire & some food to pass the time away

Intro

Hello everyone,

I’m just found this group and I thought it might be a nice fit for me. A little about myself, my wife and I do a lot of camping in our small teardrop type trailer that is pulled with a Jeep Wrangler JKU. I’ve been a ham operator for several years but haven’t done a whole lot with it except for monitoring the trails frequencies. We live in Glendale, AZ next to Phoenix.

I look forward to hearing from you and take care,

Dave Kayser, K7WTW

Ham Radio Venture Overland Access Links

I have tried to consolidate these inks all in one post

XLX

WiresX

P25, Allstar & DMR Bridges

Sept 23rd, 2022 St Helen’s Camping

Took a trip up into the Gifford Pinchot Forest of Washington State over the weekend. Feel like I’m running out of time before the snow flies even though it’s nearly October and still hot and dry. Feel like a switch is going to flip and it’ll be winter. Mostly drove forest roads to get a good view of the mountain. Found a couple of great spots and camped for the weekend. This is the first overnighter in my smaller rig and, as usual, I forgot a few items and took others I decided could be paired down.

Mt. St. Helens Lahar

This is a view of the Lahar. The mountain mostly blew out to the northeast. This is looking from the southeast. I really wanted to camp out here and watch the sun come up but this road was pretty well traveled with people wanting to get a look and since it’s a protected area, you couldn’t go more than 100 feet from the road on already established pull outs.


This would have been a great place to watch the sun rise had it not been so busy.

Found this cool spot a ways back on forest road 81 and decided to hang out here for the night. It was set up as multiple little sites but I never had anyone come down the road to check it out. Had a little stream that ran behind me that was running fast enough that I could hear it. Nice to be in solitude and listen to the creek. I couldn’t hit the WA7BF repeater from here and I had no bars so I had to get my radio signals the old fashioned way. I listened to 40 and 80m SSB for a on my shortwave receiver then scanned the SW bands eventually settling on 5085 WTWW for some music.

I entertained myself by listening to shortwave radio and reading mainly. I kept the meals simple with just one pot. Did a steak, onion and potato dinner. Breakfast was sausage, cheese, and eggs in the pot.

And, of course, coffee. All in all a fun trip with some much needed time in the woods.

VT Autumn HRVO Eyeball

we all met at 11am at was once Ms Murphy Donuts in Manchester Center VT

we all engaged in a relaxing conversation focused around overland rigs, our pets etc once the introductions were out of the way

I am not sure if its the ham radio or overland aspect but to be able to meet someone and talk like we all were life long friends I feel is most impressive

afterwards we all went to the local AT trail head & got these group photos

L to R Leo (on hood) Mike AA1PR, Pete W2IRT & wife, Steve K1GMM & Pup Angus
same crew again shot #2

after I got some nice shots of Petes rig for him with different angles

myself & Pete chatted for a little while on our way out & home on 52 simplex for a spell

hopefully next time we can do a group camping or VHF contest together etc

I hope you enjoyed

73

Mike AA1PR

Newest addition

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Addition, or addiction.
Bought myself an early 50th birthday present. A new edc ht, Vx-6r, very nice little ht. Actually surprised me how easy it was to program from the radio. I’ve spent so much time programming digital. I’ve forgotten how simple analog radios are. 😆
Actually did most of the programming at work during the down times.

Really digging the EAI feature. Every ht should have something like that, imho. And being submersible makes it perfect for taking fishing, kayaking. Mars modded so its now effectively a quadband. 6m, 2m, 1.25m and 70cm.
I accidentally kerchunked a few repeaters about 2 miles away while programming it yesterday, from inside a box truck, in the center of the city. Actually very impressed so far. Now to find antennas for it.

XLX Setup On PiStar Duplex HotSpot & AnyTone ATD878UV

now that we have an XLX link into the system I thought I would share how easy it is to access via XLX
I hope this helps, please enjoy
XLX Setup On PiStar Duplex HotSpot & AnyTone ATD878UV

XLX Reflector now connected to HRVO!

And another way to get in! We now have an XLX Reflector module hosted by xlx.superfreqdigital.com. We are Module D-(Delta)

You can access it by connecting your hotspot to YSF13211 XLX042 and select Module D by transmitting DGID-13 on your Yaesu System Fusion Radio. 420 Superfreq’s main Module is B-(Bravo) and can be accessed with DG:ID-11.

Check out: xlx.superfreqdigital.com to see the dashboard and descriptions of the Modules available on their server.

73, Todd KB7RQQ