After not a whole lot of talking on the mobile (and my only currently functional) rig in the last month, I’ve had a couple of good chews in the last 24 hours.

First I hooked up with my pops (KD0INW) last night on 2 meter. He was in Lincoln and I in Bellevue. We used K0ASH to bridge the distance. I had to mobile my rig across the street and up the hill a bit to get a quality connection while his trip up 70th Street in Lincoln was pretty S9 the whole way. We ran in to some issues when he passed through the industrial park so signed off. Still, it was pretty awesome. Hope to find him again.

Second was this morning on the way into work. After hitting K0ASH a few times I started scanning the programmed stations. I came across a CQ call on the KA0JTI 440 repeater and had an Internet-mediated conversation with N4LOS in Florida. Pretty great and sadly ran out of time (pulled in to the parking lot at work) before we could chat a bit more. Chatted about growing up in Lincoln and compared the weather between NE and FL. Pretty much the same this week.

So, that was fun. I’m feeling a bit more confident on the mic and carrying on open-ended conversations with folks I don’t know. Hopefully this is a continuing trend and not a blip on what has been a pretty silent hobby to this point.

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