What an amazing week.  A week ago it was a sad day when I had my tower taken down and sold.  The WIN System antenna was placed on my dad’s (W5QO) tower about 1/2 mile North of here.  The 443.3 repeater is back on the air at this new location with the antenna mounted on [...]

On February 6, 2010 the K5GLH tower came down.  This is the tower that hosted the 443.3 MHz repeater (WIN System).  This was a move that had nothing to do with the Del City Amateur Radio club but rather to help facilitate the sale of my home.  As I have posted before, we are planning [...]

This is a day that we all look forward to and it has finally arrived.  We are up bright and early this morning so we can go see some relatives on this Thanksgiving Day. I wish my oldest son could go with us but he has to work today.  I will take many pictures and [...]

This weekend Larry, KD5MAF and I worked on getting our two Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) nodes set up on our repeaters.  We already had them installed but we found a vulnerability.  These ham radio repeaters are set up to require a sub audible tone to be on the carrier or they will not respond [...]

Well it has been a busy week getting ready for school.  My kids started school last Tuesday and both of them are now in high school.  It is hard to believe that time has gone so fast.  I am so proud of them and they are really doing well.  Of course this new school year [...]

This weekend we had a very productive day getting our repeater running on 145.25.  We finally got the good repeater back from repair and it is working great.  The only problem is that our Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) node stopped working.  Every time the push to talk (PTT) wire would be hooked up, it [...]

Man what a busy weekend.  As I posted in the last post about what all we got done with our ham radio repeater.  After that, I got three school lessons done.  We already have next weekend scheduled because we are going to install the IRLP to the 145.25 repeater like we did this weekend.  My [...]

I had high hopes for this week.  I was off for July 4th and I took of the 5th and 6th using vacation time.  I had planned on working on my school work and getting ahead so I would not be behind like I was in the last unit.  Well that did not pan out [...]

Hello again, Today I had my followup doctor appointment and was directed to the emergency room because my oxygen level was too low.  Once I arrived at the hospital I was checked out by x-ray, and a blood test.  The hospital was a little more optimistic and said I was better off and they sent me [...]