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.