Rolled out this morning with the Egg’s new dual-band Yaesu in full operations mode. Once I made it to what passes for an arterial in our neighborhood I fired up the mic on the 2 meter call channel. To my surprise I was answered with a 5×5 from someone also in the south of Bellevue.

It’s not going to set any DX records, but it is my first QSO on 2 meters. If I hadn’t been so excited I would have had the operator repeat his sign because he clipped it each time he identified. Then I could thank him publicly.

Now I’m faced with the daunting task of programming all of the area repeaters into memory with a clunky interface. Should of sprung for the spendy computer cable.