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Got back home from the Day­ton Hamven­tion around 8 PM last night. I went there plan­ning on buy­ing an entry-level HT, but I ended up get­ting attracted to shiny things and bought a Yaesu VX-7R rather than my intended tar­get of some­thing in the FT-60R range. Made a few con­tacts on the trip back, unfor­tu­nately I don’t remem­ber many calls or names, the only ones I can recall are Ron (W8RON) and I think another guy both Ron and I talked with was named Kyle, I can’t remem­ber his call.

So I’m finally on the air the “proper” way rather than just being tied to Echolink. Woo!

–KD8JQS

I passed the test last week­end, but as of yes­ter­day I have a call­sign so I am offi­cially a licensed ama­teur radio oper­a­tor in the United States and any­where else where ama­teurs are gov­erned by the FCC or where the US has rec­i­p­ro­cal licens­ing agreements.

I don’t have any hard­ware yet, but I’m now look­ing for some starter gear and get­ting myself on Echolink.

Call­sign is KD8JQS