http://www.pineapplejuice.net/ham-pine A journey through the world of amateur radio. Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:02:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Emergency Amateur Radio Club net has become one of my favorite on-air hangouts, ever since a couple of days since I got my call sign. For a while, I've wondered what it would be like to actually do the net as net control. When the student is ready, the teacher appears. ... http://www.pineapplejuice.net/ham-pine/?p=10 Wow, lots of things have happened in my ham radio life in the past few weeks. Here are just a few: 1.  Finally got to do my first public service event as a ham, doing the communications at the Nuuanu aid station for the Hawaiian Ultra Running Team's HURT 100 Mile ... http://www.pineapplejuice.net/ham-pine/?p=9 I can't believe that it's been six months already since I've been a ham.  (And over two months since I've updated here). Part of that was preparing for my pursuit of Honolulu Marathon #8 on December 9. (I finished it, in 5 hrs. 5 minutes and 18 seconds.) Hams help out with the ... http://www.pineapplejuice.net/ham-pine/?p=7 Funny how this hobby works. One day I was struggling to get signal out while commuting. The next day I find myself with not just one, but two mobile antennas. Last week I ordered an MFJ 1724B dual band quarter wave mobile antenna with mag mount, and a UHF to SMA ... http://www.pineapplejuice.net/ham-pine/?p=6 Hams have a reputation to uphold. We are, after all, the communication service that works when all else fails. The ARRL fawns all over stories giving the amateur radio service rave reviews. Then you get a story like this. Via Long Delayed Echoes comes this story from Everett, Washington. A neighborhood in ... http://www.pineapplejuice.net/ham-pine/?p=5 I don't think I was much older than about ten or eleven.  There I sat, messing with an old Sony AM radio, one with a knob with "MW," "SW1", and "SW2".  Not that I really knew what those abbreviations meant back then.  Just out of curiosity, I turned the knob ... http://www.pineapplejuice.net/ham-pine/?p=4