Frank Loesser’s 1944 song, Baby, It’s Cold Outside, was number one on the Hit Parade in Mayersville, MS during last Saturday’s Mississippi QSO Party. We were guests of Mayor Shorter and permitted to use Russell Park there for our planned morning outing to activate the rare Issaquena County. I had organized the first outing for […]
Category: Yaesu
Huntsville HamFest: It’s Got a Chance!
For the second year in a row, I attended the hamfest in Huntsville, Alabama held at the Von Braun Center. I’m sure there are a lot of ‘fests across the country and the world, for that matter, that are very good. The Huntsville ‘Fest has a great atmosphere: excitement seems to be everywhere. It isn’t […]
Is that a Comet I see up there?
I’ve wanted to get a decent VHF and UHF antenna up so I can check out area repeaters around Starkville. My base rig is a Yaesu 8900R, a quad-band rig that is described by Yaesu as: YAESU FT-8900R29/50/144/430 MHz FM Transceiver “The FT-8900R is a ruggedly-built, high quality Quad Band FM transceiver providing 50 Watts […]