KF5RCA

I took the Tech exam at the Ham Assn. of Mesquite's VE testing location in July 2012 and was issued KF5RCA about 2 weeks later.

My grid square is EM12pw in southeast Richardson. I work deep nights in EM12pt so you may hear me check in from an HT late at night on my "lunch" break.

Interests

I am interested in PSK31, packet, and whatever BBS/store+forward action is left out there.

It may be heretical to say, but I don't have interest in (or room/money for) HF work. Every thing I'm interested in fits within the Tech license rubric. I might continue on to take the other exam[s], but it would be for personal development and not for the additional privileges.

gear

Mobile/base:
- Kenwood TM-281A from HamCity
- Rigblaster Nomic from HamCity
- N9TAX slim jim 2m antenna from his eBay sales
- power comes from a deep cycle 12v battery in a box outside my window, charged by 45w of solar panels. Currently using the charge controller that came with the Harbor Freight panels, but I have a better (still PWM) 10A controller I could slip in there, but I'm currently using the HFreight controller's front panel power jacks to charge phones and other doodads. The PWM controller keeps up with radio gear fine; if it starts to lag from use I might drop in an MPPT controller like the one on my truck's camper shell.
- I might pick up a 10m rig at some point for SSB
HT: Baofeng UV-5R, $50-odd bucks shipped from eBay seller in China, programming cable included.

On the non-ham side, I have various bits of FRS/GMRS gear, a Uniden Grant XL ssb 11m rigI'm setting up in the house and an old Sears Roadtalker ssb 11m rig I'll put in the truck. It's old/ugly enough I don't think even crackheads would try to steal it.

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