Dale, Yep...we plant enough seeds and every so often one sprouts. My friend and associate in crime Greg, N9CHA is a member there and if you scroll through their archived pages you will see that the club was having a "build a tape measure yagi" get together and this young man and his dad happened to see about it and stopped by, I don't think either of them were hams at that time ( just a couple of months ago) the session was to build up antennas for a fox hunt. The club members welcomed them and dug up anough parts for them. The young man got his ticket and took that fox hunting yagi and pointed it to the sky! There is an ARISS contact coming in St. Paul in May and N9XH will be assisting with that. I've met some of the hams up there and they are a super group.
73, John- AG9D
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Dale Hershberger daleh@alaska.net wrote:
On 1/6/2012 9:07 AM, John Spasojevich wrote:
If you go to www.n9xh.org you will find some shots of a young man, new to the hobby, with his freshly delivered by Santa HT and a home brew antenna catching the last few SSTV images from ARISSat. I think he's been a ham for just a couple of months. Great to see.
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John,
I think this is excellent. A good way to show the dedication of a new ham. It is a very fitting tribute to demise of ARISSAT-1.
Dale KL7XJ
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