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Welcome to my home
on the Internet.
On
April 17, 2009 I participated in the American Cancer Society
Relay for Life in Viera, Florida. I operated 40
Meters SSB QRP with my Yaesu FT-817. I helped my XYL's company raise
funds for cancer research. I am a cancer survivor. My mother, sister
and brother-in-law all died from cancer. So this is very important
to me. If you care to donate, please go to the following link. You
also can send a donation to your local American Cancer Society:
c/o
Robin McDonald
DTx,
Inc.
1800
Penn Street
Melbourne, FL 32901.
On March
27, 28 and 29, 2009, Manatee District held its Spring Camporee
at Ais Park west of Palm Bay, Florida. Along with KI4KDT, I operated a station
from there, with some help from local hams from Platinum Coast
Amateur Radio Society www.pcars.org.
Skywarn®
Recognition Day was December 5, 2008. Locally, members of Platinum
Coast Amateur Radio Society (PCARS),
www.pcars.org participated at the Melbourne National Weather
Service office, www.srh.noaa.gov/mlb. As in previous years, this
year's Skywarn® was a tremendous success.
Skywarn®
and the Skywarn® logo are registered trademarks of the National
Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration, used with permission.
For more
information, visit:
http://www.srh.weather.gov/mlb/nwsse_ARCHIVE/nwsse2008.html
or
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2008/10/30/10417/
I was first licensed
on March 14, 2002, which was my parents' 58th anniversary. I am a
police officer for the Palm Bay, Florida Police Department, which
has a ham shack in its headquarters. During Hurricanes Frances and
Jeanne, I worked with the volunteers in providing communications
between the city's EOC and police headquarters, and among the
shelters in south Brevard County. In furtherance of this, I have HF,
2 meters and 70 cm installed in my patrol car.
In South Brevard
County, we have a group very active on 146.52 simplex. That's where
you're likely to find me.
I
have started an Amateur Radio club at
Palm
Bay Community Charter School, Patriot Campus. The school's call
sign is KI4ZUR. Please look at our listing on
qrz.com.
Please feel free to
contact me about any of these
topics.
Click graphic to go
to Palm Bay Weather
Solar Weather
Where am I now?
NOTE: Currently, the APRS software on my Samsung
Blackjack II phone is broken. I replaced my phone under warranty,
and it's using a newer version of Windoze CE. There is some reason
that Lynn
Deffenbaugh's, (KJ4ERJ). APRS-IS CE isn't working on the new
version. APRS-IS really is a neat app and is a nice supplement to
traditional APRS over ham radio. My call sign with my Blackjack is
AI4GK-12.
Also, since Lynn is using my Kenwood handheld with
the built-in APRS TNC, I am without APRS right now. Stay tuned for
my return to APRS.
Click
HERE
to look up on K6IB's APRS Site.
Click
HERE to look up on DB0ANF's APRS Site.
(Uses Google Map)
Spring Camporee for
Manatee District, Central Florida Council was held on the weekend of March
16, 17 and 18, 2007. This was Manatee District's first Radio Merit
Badge camporee, the
theme being Mission (im)Possible. Throughout the
camporee, Scouts experience, and participated in many forms of
communications. Most, but not all, were ham-radio related. We
expect to provide HF, VHF, UHF and, hopefully, microwave. We had Slow Scan TV (SSTV) and Amateur TV (ATV),
satellite communications and other modes. We also familiarized the Scouts with
semaphore. The Camporee was a total success!
We want to thank:
Members of
Platinum Coast Amateur Radio Society
Brevard Emergency Amateur
Radio Services (BEARS)
MFJ Enterprises
Icom America
ARRL; the American Radio Relay
League
and other individuals and
groups
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