Summer Fun

We are in mid summer, we are lacking in rain and everything here is unusually dry. But there is still some fun to be had, Only about a month and a half and the contests begin. The Washington Salmon Run is in September, looking forward to my first serious contest.

I joined the fine folks of the Williamsburg Area Amatuer Radio Club at their monthly breakfast yesterday and had just a wondeful time! Met Hershel's wife Allison and their adorable little girl, Emmma! Hershel is working hard to get me invited to join the Potomac River Valley contesting club, how cool is that?! We also met Dave and his son Isaac. They are super nice folks and made us feel really welcome.

I've been a little slow in getting this posted but I wanted to put up my QSL card.

Hope everyone is having a fun summer and getting some HAM time in.

Happy Hamming!
73s

Here's to good friends......

Anyone else remember that commericial? No? Okay it is just me then.
The blog has the power to reunite!

We have gotten back in touch with some of my hubby's friends we haven't seen in a while. Hubby is KA3MYK. Two of his friends who recently found him again through and internet search and led to this blog are, Richard KA3KYW and Bruce WB3JPB. They are members of the Green Mountian Repeater Club in Maryland. Check them out! I'd call them the Green Mountain Boys but I think that name as been taken. LOL.
www.gmramd.org


We are hoping to have a reunion later this month! What fun!

Just in case Rich or Bruce happen to check out this blog again.....HF guys, HF.LOL

73s,
Milly

A Good Day

I stayed home from work today, not feeling my best and thought well I'll turn on the HF rig see what I can hear. What a great day!
I met Ken KC2RJR and we had a great QSO for a while. Ken is my second contact from NY state and they are certainly some friendly people up there.
My first contact was Jose in NY, NY N2LRB, if you get a chance check out Jose's website he has some great photos of his antenna set up! www.n2lrb.com
Jose, the QSL card is on the way :-)

Surprisely 10 meters was open some today, I didn't think it would be, but there were a few people out there.

It is clear and about 85F here today. There is a bit of a breeze out there which is nice.


Lets not forget Field Day coming up! woot!

Happy Hamming!
73s

More DXing and other fun stuff

I haven't been on the radio as much as I would like because I am trying to sell my house, but I got on tonight and man was 20m open! I got Ireland right away and I can never seem to get Ireland. The Czech Republic had a special station going to celebrate 100 years of scouting, that was fun!
And there was the Alabama QSO party this weekend, so lots of folks out there to talk to.
And wouldn't you know some hobbies seemingly unrelated to lead to interesting contacts.
I met Margaret Biggs through my knitting blog or rather her knitting blog. She lives in Virginia also and we were talking about our love of knitting. She had some pictures of her hubby climbing a tower, so I asked her if it by chance was a HAM tower and it was! Margaret herself is not a HAM, but her husband and all of his brothers are and they are big into contesting. You should see this tower he is putting up! It is really impressive. I will post the link below to her pictures.
Maybe some of you know them, K1ZM, K3ZM, and K2DM.
Here is the link:lotsofyarn.blogspot.com

Hope everyone is enjoying the bands!
73's

First QSL Card!

I got my very first QSL card in the mail yesterday, it was for the special event station for the 3rd anniversary of the 7.272 rag chew, K1R!
Very nice card!I'll try to post a picture this weekend!

Hope everyone is having lots of HAM fun!

The Weekend is Gone!

Well, I was kinda disappointed with the whole thing really. The weather on Sunday wasn't the best. I didn't do so great in the Mid-Atlantic QSO contest, I don't know if it was my timing or what but I only got like five contacts and couldn't find another soul out there. I know there had to be because the contacts I mean had already gotten 50+ contacts but maybe they sat for the full 12 hours. Sadly, I couldn't.
Hope everyone else had a good weekend though and if you participated in the QSO party I hope you did really well.

Happy Hamming.

The Weekend is Nearly Here!

Okay folks,
It is almost the weekend, I am lucky enough to have tomorrow off. (our office is closed for the Jamestown 400 Celebration) And the Mid-Atlantic QSO party is this weekend! I am going to give it a shot. It is my first time, I have some pretty realistic expectations for my performance, but you have to start somewhere! Why not just go ahead and jump in feet first!
I am trying out some different logging software to see which is the best for me. I have had some great advice and tips on which ones to try, thanks to Bill NR4C, Joe, KI4XLT and George K4GAM. I need to work on it tonight and tomorrow and hopefully have one in place for this weekend. Perhaps this weekend will be a testing ground for the software as well.
I have ordered some more supplies and an LDG 250Pro automatic tuner that should arrive today. Plus some jumpers and a couple of books on contesting. Pretty exciting stuff this weekend.

For all participating in the QSO party this weekend, good luck! Don't forget that the special event station W4J will be operating from Jamestown this weekend!
Happy Hamming!