Recently, Martin, M1MRB, was able to pull a few strings and get a Brandmeister talk group—TG9480—assigned to the ICQPodcast. It’s been up and running for a couple of months now, and Martin has been encouraging all of the presenters to get on regularly to chat with our listeners.
I admit that I’ve been a slacker when it came to getting on this talk group. If you’re like me, you don’t reprogram your radio very often (it had been more than a year since I’d made any modifications to mine) and you hate fooling around with the code plug if you don’t have to. But, after Martin prodded me a little the last time I appeared on the podcast, I decided I should bite the bullet and get on TG9480.
Since I hadn’t touched the code plug for more than a year, I had to re-learn how to do it, but that didn’t prove to be too difficult. I just futzed around with it until I got it working.
When I finally did get it all programmed, there was something else going on on time slot 2 of our DMR repeater, so I wasn’t able to get on just then. The next day, however, I fired it up, gave out a call, and got an immediate reply from W5WTH in Austin. I thought that was pretty cool. Not only did I get the programming right, I even talked to someone on the first call.
On my second call, I found Martin, and we had a nice chat. I made my third call this morning, and immediately got a call from Phil, VK6ADF. So, I’m 3-for-3!
The ICQPodcast crew are interesting people to talk to, and our listeners are pretty interesting folks, too. So, if you’re looking for a new talk group to try out, add TG9480 to your code plug.
Spoo-kay
On Wednesday, March 17, 2021, I worked Tom, NG4S, at 2244Z on 10.111 MHz. Our previous contact was on March 17, 2020 at 2228Z on 10.111 MHz.
A satisfied customer
Yesterday, while working the Virginia QSO Party, I was on 40m phone working a few stations. I called one guy, who came back sounding a bit befuddled. “KB6NU?” he asked.
“Roger,” I replied.
“Hey, cool,” he answered, still sounding a bit flummoxed. “I’m looking at one of your books right now!” I replied that I was happy that he found them useful and wished him good luck in the contest. It’s nice to be appreciated. <grin>
If you ever hear me on the air, I hope that you’ll give me a call. I love talking to readers.
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