grid cell CM87xi
37.3662N 122.0195W
2m antenna indoors
Sunnyvale CA 94086 USA
eric@n2vi.com

Most of my gear is still in boxes from the move to California.
I participate when I can in the Sunnyvale ARES on
SARES, K6GL, 145.170- 94.8
SPECS, W6ASH, 145.270- 100.0
SVECS, AA6BT, 146.115+ 100.0
Crystal Peak, K6SNY, 443.275+ 107.2

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rig:
* Kenwood TS-2000 into Diamond X200A on the roof and a 20.1m center-fed doublet in trees at 50ft
* Yaesu FT-2600M (2m FM) into Arrow 146S (4 element Yagi, vertical)
* ICOM 2400A (2m/70cm FM) into Arrow J146/440 on 19ft pole for emergency base.
* ICOM 2410H (2m/70cm FM packet), BuxComm GLK, Thinkpad600E for digital modes; sometimes used as a cross-band repeater for FM voice
* Kenwood TH-G71 (2m/70cm FM) into duck+counterpoise or 1/4 mag-mount VU-1510 or twin-lead J-pole.
* backup HF rigs: ICOM-735 and Yaesu FT-901DM.
* Powered by deep-discharge storage batteries on trickle charge, with Powerpole connectors, or Alinco DM-330MV.
* Feedline is BuryFlex. Diamond MX72N diplexer.

history: One summer, my daughter Emily, now KC2KMK, decided she'd like to get a radio license. I'd wanted to for many years, so we started studying together and in October I made Technician as KC2KHM. The next month when Emily got Technician, I upgraded to General. At the following Field Day, I noticed how nice it was to have a short call, so I upgraded to Amateur Extra, switched to one of the short-CW calls listed at vanityhq.com, and am now and forevermore N2VI. Emily learned the code and upgraded to General, but is now at MIT, where Aero&Astro takes priority over radio.

Emily and I were helped in all this by Barry K2JV and other members of NPARC. We participate in the emergency communications group, which practices at local parades and fireworks in New Providence and Berkeley Heights, and in occasional larger events like TOPOFF3. Our Field Day 2005 class 1F station, WK2I located on the lawn of the Summit Red Cross chapter headquarters, placed second in the nation. My home QTH was
grid cell FN20sp
40°39.57N = 40.6595 = 40°39'34"N
74°27.05W = -74.45083 = 74°27'03"W
antennas 470' = 143m ASL
Berkeley Heights NJ 07922 USA
old links: NNJ |NJ |NPARC |TCRA, W2NJR, W2LV

My mother, Dennise KE4EZU, and father, Burck KC4UEV used to participate in Emergency Communications in Palm Beach County and were active in the radio club there.

145.750 NPARC
146.520 national FM call
146.700- 141.3 W2PQG Wanaque
146.895- 151.4 WS2Q Morristown
147.030+ no PL W2TW Whippany
147.255+ 141.3 W2LI Murray Hill
162.550 weather
446.000 national FM call
449.175- 141.3 Chatham
449.975- 141.3 W2LI, NJ link The bandplan includes repeater offsets of 600kHz for 2m, 5MHz for 70cm.
See my satellite page for ISS and other info. nets and meetings
Sun 21:00 147.030 NPARC
Mon 19:15 146.895 Red Cross N2ARC
1st Mon 19:30 Westfield Y, Scotch Plains
2nd Mon 19:30 Salt Brook School
3rd Mon 19:30 Will Grove Presby, Martine+Raritan
4th Mon 19:30 Salt Brook School
all 19:30 146.895 NJ VN Early
all 22:00 449.975 UCTN
all 22:30 146.700 NJ VN Late

useful links:
AES
BuxComm The Rascal GLK kit worked fine for me. But read the reviews at eHam.net.
Davis RF
Gigaparts
ICOM
Kenwood
SSB
Yaesu

RF exposure calulator
local hamfests
KC2RLM weather station
Sussex County ARC packet and repeaters
hams over GoggleMaps
Greene County ARES jumpkit
Ohio ARES
Ham Radio Deluxe
twin-lead J-pole
antennas, duplexers, etc.
M0SBF attic antenna experience
Linux radio software
Linux radio hardware
RF interference sound files
ham at Columbia search site
famous hams
KB7YOU ops
CQ WE
DXcluster (tutorial) NJDXA
ARISS contact in Japan 8N3M on 7jan05