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HEY!  Welcome to VE7LFN

    Name here is Larry. QTH is Castlegar, British Columbia, Canada.    

I'm located in Castlegar BC , about 45 min. north of the border and about 7 hours east of Vancouver. I moved here in May 2005 to take on the job Protection Officer with the BC Government.

I have been a Ham since 1992 and have my Canadian Advanced license.

I previously lived in Pemberton, Dease lake and Vanderhoof BC

My set up consists of ...

Radios:

My Yaesu 817, atop my Z11 Autotuner, atop my Kenwood 450SAT

My Yaesu 817, atop my Z11 Autotuner, atop my Kenwood 450SAT

 Yahoo! Groups : TS-850_450_690

Radio Shack HTX100 (10M) 

 ICOM IC2100H (2m)

     

 Heathkit HW100

Yaesu FT208R & NC7 stand

FT208 group

 

  Antennas:

  • 80M Delta loop which works very well as an all band using the antenna tuner in the 450.

  • 102" whip for 10m mobile

  • 75M Hustler

  • 17M half square &  1/4 wave vertical

  • Cushcraft A505S 6M Yagi

  • Cushcraft A627013S 6/2/.7M Yagi

  • Explorer 14 with 40M add on (not up yet)

Misc
PK232, Ten Tek 6M Transverter, Kenwood IF-232C interface, 500 & 200mhz Pentiums, B&W model 600 dip meter, various hamfest 'treasures'.

Signal reports

I like to try and give accurate reports and so have the following printed out and posted by the radio for quick reference. Yeah its subjective, but signal reports are in the ear of the listener...

Readability  

Signal Strength

1

Unreadable

   1

Faint signal, almost impossible to read
2

Barely readable, occasional words only

   2

Very weak signal
3

Readable with much difficulty

   3

Weak signal
4

Readable with little difficulty

   4

Fair signal
5

Perfectly readable

  

5

Fairly good signal
     

6

Good signal
      7

Moderately strong signal
      8

Strong signal
      9

Very strong signal
 


 Nets I have been known to pop in on...
Net Frequency Day Time PST
BC Public Service Net 3.729 Every day 18.30
Ragchew 3.744 evenings ~ 22.00

BC Northern
Net

3.775

Sun & Wed

19.00
       

 

A FEW links...

  Harry's homebrew -

  •  a great site for ideas and projects
  K1DWU -

  •   A good place to start for everything Ham related
  www.mods.dk 

  •  lots of rig pictures and service notes.
New Jersey QRP Club 

  • these folks have some great kits
Send any emails to The live wire group 

  •  Great group of friendly Hams who like to tinker with antennas

8888[email protected] (remove the 8888)
 

  • These folks like to strap a radio on and do a walkabout.
  The Electronic QSL Card Centre
  •   check it out. you may have some waiting

 

 

 

 

 

My view of the CW debate :)

see ya!

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