New Contacts

I’ve just started a Ham Radio Blog for the Central Coast area.  I want to use if for several reasons, including, but not limited to my own education about Ham Radio.  I also want to begin logging contacts I’ve made with people around the world.  Last week I made a couple of new contacts with some hams .  One was Thursday, 2/28/08, sometime in the evening when I spoke with Len Matson, KD7ZRC from Lakeside Montana through IRLP node 7430.  I believe we were listening to the Alaska reflector 9070 which might have also been connected to the Western Reflector.  I gave him our local Nipomo node number of 3139, and I will contact him again in the future, node to node with out all the reflector traffic.

The other contact I made this last week was Larry Mc Cartin, KH6ITY from Brownsville Texas.  He was connecting to the Nipomo node via Echolink and I heard him on the radio, and talked with him.  In fact both Ryan and I both spoke with him, and found out he has local roots here on the Central Coast.  He graduated from Mission College Preparatory High School back in 1965, and is now a teacher in Montana.  he also knows the Hemerick family here in Nipomo.  It was interesting to chat with Len.  He also knows someone Ryan knows from MCP, who apparently was a student back in the 1960’s when Larry attended.

I’ve made several other contacts since becoming a ham, but haven’t kept track of them.  One of the things I will do on this blog is to record and keep a record of my contacts so I can re-contact them again in the future.