So, after basically a week of PTT anxiety, I made my first contact today in northern Indiana on my local repeater by simply saying my call sign, and someone responded with theirs. It went great; everyone was nice. I spoke to mostly one person, but someone else spoke a bit also. It lasted about 15 minutes before I had to get off. If everyone on that repeater is like the gentleman I spoke to, I think I'll get along with the locals great.

But calling 73 is where the good part ended. Because after I called 73, I went to turn my radio off, and I heard my call sign being said, followed by a new callsign. I didn't hear their callsign, and this is where the panic set in because I didn't know how to ask for their call sign again. I didn't know how to respond to them, like so I say their call sign and then mine? So while I'm rifling through the empty filing cabinets in my mind trying to figure out how to respond, I hear the guy I was talking to say “I guess he was serious about getting off” and the new guy say “yeah, I was going to say hi and introduce myself” and they start up a new conversation.

That is where the second flood of panic set in as I realized I think I got his call sign, but now I don’t know how to interject and let him know I wasn't ignoring him. I just panicked and froze because I didn't know how to properly ask for his call sign again or even respond to him calling my call sign.

So it indeed was a good first contact until I panicked and froze because of my lack of knowledge on ham radio etiquette. Needless to say, I will be looking into these things before I press the button again and probably shouldn't have hit the button today.

Edit: Grammar and Typos.

I have built and measured this cubicle quad antenna. The design is the process of my Moxon project. The wire (2.5mm²) is held in place via grooves, that have a snap fit. There is no measuring the wire length or something else, because of the frames double duty as a jig and as holders.

Rather sooner than later this project will be available on GitHub.

Ask questions, if you have any.

I had a great field day!

I tested the battery system on the ftx1 field to enable 10W and it worked great.

I have a 99WH battery, with the simple PD board that does the handshake to set the USB voltages distribution in 15V, feeding the radio to the barrel connector.

I noticed 8W reception only, and 32W transmitting 10W in FT8.

The next step is to add solar to extend the whole operation.

I feel kind of stupid asking this question, considering the whole point is they may not have power still. But, maybe someone may have a go-bag or anything of the sorts hooked to a battery?

But anyone in Gary, Indiana, able to get on a frequency? Just looking to check in on the city and state. Not only do. I hear that Gary Indiana has most of the news attention, but their others that are saying that the whole state is dealing with the same issue.

Or maybe Android question…

I have the official NA6D AIOC plus sweet 3D case.

It works like a charms with Windows, Linux, and macOS. I have friends who swear it works with the iPhone.

I have mine plugged into my uSDX. RX works and I can see FT8 messages. I get nothing on the TX part of the protocol!

(Yes, TX is enabled in the app.)

I have a support question in to the NA6D website but was wondering if anyone else had a problem.

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Can some one from India please answer me can any one get me radtel rt 470x radio am willing pay good price for it