No no no, not radio pirates making illegal transmissions - I'm talking about peg-leg, eye-patch, hook-hand, swashbuckling pirates!
Now that I have finally finished up my Information System degree, my evenings and weekends are (hopefully) just slightly less busy, so I'm actually going to be able to participate in Field Day this year. The club I am a member of (well, usually a member, I think I still need to send in my dues for this year!) is the Red Rose Repeater Association in my home-town of Lancaster PA. This year, Doug, W3COB, volunteered to coordinate things for us (thanks Doug!) After the emails bounced around about who had what equipment, and what types of stations we wanted to set up, we landed on that I would be using some of my equipment to set up a station to do 6m SSB. The core of the station will be my Yeasu 857d, and my Buddie-Pole (configured as a 6m beam.)
Am I planning on dressing like a pirate? Certainly not (probably not? maybe not? I might....) but I have found that with our club's callsign - W3RRR - I do end up sounding rather pirate-ish when trying to work fast. Saying W-3-R-R-R during a contact often ends up sounding W-3-arrrrrrr in a contest-like environment:-)
I know of at least one other pirate station out there(K3RRR). Are there more? Maybe we should start an HF net on Talk Like a Pirate Day...
Arrgh! See Ya Chum!
Arrgh! See Ya Chum!
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