Tuesday, July 8, 2008

My First Contact KG6VMX

Tonight I attended my first ever local ham club meeting (LPARC). It wasn't where they said it would be! I got off the highway behind a car with a vanity plate that looked like a call sign and had extra antennas on the top so I figured I was going in the right direction. However this car pulled over in to the school and not the fire station where the meeting was. So I drove another few miles to the fire station, only to find a nice note telling me the meeting was at the school! Oh well, it was a nice meeting and I got to show my radio to folks and ask why I couldn't hit the repeater. Seems I had everything set up, the positive offset and the tone frequency, what I had neglected to do was actually turn on the repeater tone!

With this new found knowledge and my repeater tone turned on I got home and called CQ and someone answered! My first ever ham radio contact was with Bill (KG6VMX) who it just so happened had been at the meeting that evening.

I added it to my QSO Map.