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January 28-29, 2023

This weekend is Winter Field Day, so I thought I would visit some nearby club events on Saturday since my club wasn't participating this year.  I first tried Navasota and the Grimes County club, but their event was cancelled due to the rainy weather.  So I headed on over to Brenham to the Washington County Amateur Radio Group.  I met some really nice folks there.  I got to see a demonstration of the ICOM 7300 and also viewed an ICOM 705 QRP radio.  I also learned about AllStar Net and the RepeaterPhone app.  The Washington County group has a Sunday night net and their repeater is connected to an AllStar node.  So I signed up with an Allstar account and joined their net on Sunday night.  Always enjoyable to meet other folks and learn new things.

While on my travels Saturday, I tuned to some local repeaters and it sure sounded like the Tomball group had a really nice Field Day.  I could hear them talking on the College Station repeater.  I wasn't able to talk at the time or I would have.  Sounded like someone had built a homemade antenna launcher.  I'd like to learn more about that.

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January 21, 2023

Our local amateur radio club had a couple of Simplex Saturday events today and last Saturday where we tried making contacts from home to each other.  Had a lot of fun even though I only had the Yaesu FT 70 HT for the exercise.  I did have a couple of QSOs though.