{"id":1587,"date":"2010-02-04T05:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T18:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/pa1zz-gets-ticket-in-southern-california\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T05:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T18:02:00","slug":"pa1zz-gets-ticket-in-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/pa1zz-gets-ticket-in-southern-california\/","title":{"rendered":"PA1ZZ Gets Ticket in Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A while back we reported on the Californian travails of long-time listener Rogier, PA1ZZ. We are happy to report that OM Rogier has joined the ranks or U.S.-licensed radio amateurs and is preparing to wiggle the ether with the FB rig pictured above. <\/b><\/p>\n

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Hey Bill,<\/b><\/div>\n
Since the FCC<\/span> doesn\u2019t like it if you use the foreign license as a Permanent resident<\/span>. I took the plunge and passed the technician and general exams in one day.<\/b><\/div>\n
So here I am KJ6ETL QRV from San Mateo, CA.<\/b><\/div>\n
One day I will do the Extra class but that’s for later. First I have to study for my career, hobby comes 2nd\u2026<\/b><\/div>\n

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I still had my DSW-II build from a kit when I was living on Bonaire<\/span>. But never managed to get in the air due to the lack of a dummy load<\/span> to tune the final stage and a very strong HF signal from a local US religious broadcast station (50KW) aiming at South America<\/span> and the Radio Netherlands relay station. Both put so much HF in the air that my SWR meter needle was pushed in the corner without my transmitter hooked up\u2026<\/b><\/div>\n

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Now, years later, I polished the March R3A paddle and finally tuned the DSW-II. Next step will be to hang an invisible 20mtr band dipole on our balcony (hoa\u2019s\u2026.) and see what happens.<\/b><\/div>\n
Since my morse skills are very rusty and antenna and power are rather limited I might want to jump ahead and start with the digital modes…<\/b><\/div>\n


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A while back we reported on the Californian travails of long-time listener Rogier, PA1ZZ. We are happy to report that OM Rogier has joined the ranks or U.S.-licensed radio amateurs and is preparing to wiggle the ether with the FB rig pictured above. Hey Bill, Since the FCC doesn\u2019t like it if you use the … Continue reading “PA1ZZ Gets Ticket in Southern California”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netherlands-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}