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K7AGE

Posted: 17 Mar 2017 06:59 AM PDT
http://www.qsotoday.com/podcasts/k7age

Randy Hall, K7AGE, has been a ham for almost 50 years and is well known
for his You-Tube channel with his hundreds of ham radio videos. Randy is
also a regular contributor to Ham Nation on the TWIT network where he
curates viewer submitted videos in his own special segment. He works just
about all bands and modes. Randy is a hams ham and elmer, and a popular
guest on a number of the ham radio podcasts. K7AGE is my QSO Today.
Show Notes
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7AGE Resources:You-Tube VideosReceiving PSK31
without a sound card interfaceBuild 2 meter quarter wave using SO239Digipan
on laptop
Most Popular Video: Tour of WLW 500K Transmitter

Current Home: Gold Beach, Oregon

First Elmer: James Hall W2ELX, Randys father was a ham,

Hometown: Rochester NY

First License: Age 16, Novice, WN2BXU

Elmer: Lincoln Cundle, W2QY founder of Antique
Wireless Association

W1AW code practice

Heathkit Color TV Kit

Went to school at: Rochester Institute of Technology, Electronics

73 Magazine - archive of the popular ham radio magazine

First mobile radio: RCA Carphone Mobile Transceiver

Crystal Oven, mobile transceiver - used in tube type mobile radios to keep
the frequency from drifting.

Vibrator power supply - used to create high voltage power supplys for tube
type mobile radios running on 6 and 12VDC.

TTL 7400 Chip - NAND gate

555 timer chip - popular multistable vibrator or one-shot chip. Hams used
in repeater controllers for carrier delay timers and time-out timers.

GLB synthesizer - popular in the late 70s to turn crystal controlled
two-meter radios into synthesized radios.

Phase Lock Loop - used in early synthesizers like the GLB.

First Rig: Hallicrafters SX101A receiverEF Johnson Invader 2000Ameco AC1
TransmitterHeathkit DX20 Transmitter
Current Rig:Elecraft K3 with P3 panadapterKenwood TS2000 Mobile: Icom
ID-5100AKenwood TMD710A
Favorite operating modeigital modes PSK-31,Two Meter Packet Grass Valley
Group

Grass Valley Model 300 switcher

ABC 1980 Winter Olympics

Kenwood Trio TS830 Transceiver

Dr. Robert Suding, W0MLD

Amateur Logic, with George Thomas

Firewire port

Movie Maker Software

Randys video go kit: Sony HD cameraSennheiser wireless microphone with XLR
connector Logitech 920 webcamSony Vegas Editor Software
Tektronix Profile Video server

Favorite Ham Radio Event: Pacificon - forum driven event. Also likes SEAPAC
in Oregon

Most excited by:Technology that combines computers with radiosArduino with
LCD and SDSOLED Displays
Advice to new or returning hams: Get radio active get on the air

EF Johnson Invader 2000
Transmitter Hallicrafters SX-101A Ameco AC1 Transmitter
KIt Kenwood TS-2000 Transceiver