My not so new rig and new antenna setup.

Salam to all readers...

Last week got my self another 1 2nd hand (condition like new) mobile rig for my base setup. At first it was intended to replace my current running rig. I thought my rig kaput already bcoz it cannot transmit on low n midlow power output. If i do so it will "Hang" like a pc which u can do anything on it. After turn it off n turn it on back then it can be use. All this while i thought i was my rig is faulty. Previously i did ask few elmers bout this. They said this is the first time they heard bout it. Then i thought it was my own modded pc power supply that causing it. Then i get myself a modded by a fren PC power supply. The problem occuring. It give me a headache. Later i bought a power supply from HS Land by the Brand Hammax and change the coax. Still got problem.

So i thought my rig is faulty n got a 2nd mobile rig. After change the rig... The problem still persist. Then i make up my mind, there is somthing wrong with the antenna. then i saw an old broom stick made from soft steel pipe. tried to bend it to make it 90° at both end. At 1 end going upward and on the other end going downward. (pic will come later). This boom will be a temporary boom. I'm getting a proper steel pipe (exhaust pipe) to make the permanent boom. Later i will joint it with a satellite dish stand to make it swingable. As for the temporary setup, now i can transmit at low power n midlow power output. now can even monitor station qso from Sungai Petani which is previously can even hear anything. I haven't fully tested the new setup. I just worked a few station on simplex with Low Power. 1 from bayan baru (5 2), 1 from permatang Binjai (5 9) n 1 Mobile station at Permatang Pauh (5 9).

That's all for now. Will add pic later. havent got time to take pic...

thanks for reading...
73's...

Today Is My Birthday...

Today is my birthday. Today i turn 30 already. Just like any other birthday... it just a normal day. Life must go on. A lots of thing has happen to me all this 30 years. Lots of thing that i need to do to fulfill my dreams. Today I'm happy with my life. i got a wife, a son n a soon to be son / daughter. my beloved wife now pregnant almost 3 month. Hopefully she will deliver a baby girl. However a boy or a girl.. it does not matter.. I'm thanksfull for another child. My son already 2yr++ n by this October he will be 3 yr.

This year i'm celebrating my birthday wif new hobby. Well actually i've been intersted wif this radio quite somtime already... but only this year i started to get myself into Amatuer Radio seriusly. However still alot that i need to learn about Amatuer Radio eventhough i've got my ticket to "Fly on the Frequencies"...

Next.. i want complete my radio shack with all that is needed as a HAM. now i only got a mobile VHF transciever, 2 handy talkie. Which is 1 use in my jelopy. while my mobile rig use at home base. Looking forward to get a HF set to further explore the band that is permitted on my B class licence n to listen to all other HF band available.

1 day i will upgrade my 9W to 9M... however it is along way to go and soon it will be...

thanks for visiting n reading... well Happy Birthday to Me n to all those celebrating their birthday today...

73.. de 9W2ACY

Ham Radio Obsolete?

I cross over this article bout Ham Radio originally From the SARA* Newsletter, March 1995: President's Corner: Ham Radio Obsolete? I just put half of the article. The rest pls proceed to the link below.


`Recently, on an Internet news group, someone posted an article contending that the Internet and online computer services such as Compuserve and Ameria On Line will soon kill off amateur radio. This came within a month of a newspaper wire-service story recounting the use of electronic mail in getting messages into the earthquake-ravaged city of Kobe, Japan. This newspaper story quoted someone who said, essentially, that e-mail was the modern means of disaster communications, replacing ham radio "of the old days."

No one making these claims is a ham. Anyone who contends that using a commercial online computer service rivals the excitement of amateur radio communications obviously has no experience with our hobby. Still, others similarly unfamiliar with the amateur radio service might give some credence to such claims. That makes it worthwhile to point out some of the reasons why they're wrong.

The Internet article said that the world-wide communications capability of the online services and their ability to retrieve vast amounts of information render amateur radio obsolete. This contention overlooks the principal difference between such services and amateur radio. When using an online service or the Internet, you are a consumer; when using amateur radio, you are a participant.

A couple of weeks ago, I worked stations in Europe, South America, Africa and Asia. I was using a 5-watt transmitter and a wire antenna. That was enjoyable, rewarding and satisfying. Now, I could have sent e-mail to most of those countries, looked at World Wide Web pages from many of them, or picked up the telephone and talked to someone in each of them. As any ham knows, that just wouldn't be the same thing. As long as people find it exciting to do such things with equipment in their own homes, without the benefit of untold thousands of technicians maintaining their network links, amateur radio will have a place as a rewarding pastime.

Any non-amateur who cannot understand the difference between amateur radio and use of commerical communication services should find a local ham and ask to sit in while the ham makes some contacts, perhaps on HF, VHF weak-signal, or via amateur satellites. I'm sure that few people will go away from such an experience without knowing the difference. If you know any non-amateurs who think ham radio is obsolete, offer to give them a demonstration....

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All credit goes to the writer...

-- Dave Finley, N1IRZ
* Socorro (NM) Amateur Radio Association