KD0GQX

Friday 27 February 2009 - Filed under Radio

I got my call sign!

On February 2nd I was doing some research in amateur rocket telemetry systems and one of the systems I looked at said that you needed to have an amateur radio (“ham”) license in order to buy it.

So I started looking into it and later that night I tweeted:

in case you didn’t think i was a big enough dork, i’m going to get my amateur radio (“ham”) license. For rocketry telemetry via packet radio

On February 17th, roughly 2 weeks later I tweeted:

I am a ham.

I had passed my Technicians test! On February 25th, I got my call sign:

Hi, pleased to meet you, MY NAME IS KD0GQX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s been a fun month! I now have a Comet GP-3 on my roof and a Yaesu FT-897 in my office. I’ve been playing around with APRS, packet radio and FM repeaters.

I’m also starting to work on the rocket telemetry stuff that I wanted to do in the first place!

2009-02-27  »  lolife