I knew I was taking my General, so I started stocking up on gear. I passed on Jan 12, 2019 and started setting things up that Sunday.

The HF setup:

• Icom IC-7300
• MFJ Intellituner (MFJ-993B)
• MyAntennas.com EFHW-8010-2K - in kind of an inverted L on a Rohn H50

The VHF/UHF setup:

• Icom IC-2730A (I won this from Icom's HamNation/HRCC giveaway) - this may eventually end up mobile
• Diamond X50A - temporarily mounted on my 8' fence until I rework my mast.

So far I've mostly been on FT8 with contacts as far as New Caledonia, Argentina, South Africa, Croatia, & Alaska. I've started Calling CQ on SSB though, so wish me luck! If you hear me out there, be nice.

I've also been playing with Winlink on & off. I finally got everything tweaked and working again recenctly. Of course since I'm a Mac guy I have to fire up a Windows VM to check it, but I've been trying to do it on a regular basis, so drop me a line if you want to test it out.

Club Memberships

Here are the various ARCs I'm a member of, in something like a growing geographical order.

• White Rock Lake Amateur Radio Club – WA5WRL
• Dallas Amateur Radio Club – W5FC
• Rainbow Amateur Radio Association
• PRIDE Radio Group
• Ham Radio Village – K0HRV

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