Welcome to
the
web site
of
vu2mir
hosted free on the QSL.NET
About
my Hamming & me
First call sign was vu2azy (grade II), from 1st
Sept. 1986 to 31st May 1988 and during this period, I lived (in Banagalore and) on the 40
meter band. with HB 807 cw Tx , (which very
nearly electrocuted
me twice
after which I took to precautions and I advise you to follow the safety
procedures mentioned in the ARRL and other books….. others may not be as lucky
as I to have survived) and putting out about 30 Watts of RF power into an inverted
V antenna and Eddystone
556 BC Rx with a HB BFO. But with the Rx band width as
broad as the ‘India Gate’, the ‘God
given’ narrow filter (ears and brain) came into operation when two or more cw stations were inside the pass band and I worked this way till I got a Kenwood –
TS 530 SP in May 1988.
After the first few days of operating CW (as vu2azy), I fell
deeply in love with it and the affair goes as strong ever since. .
Upgraded to vu2mir (grade I)
on 1st June 1988 and
was QRV 20 and 40 Mtr bands on cw and
ssb (only when required). More than 90% of my logging was on cw and I loved to
rag chew on ‘dits’ and ‘dahs’. After a few weeks of getting the Kenwood, I put
up inv v antennas for all the HF bands, except for the 160 and 80 Mtr bands
(not enough space), I worked a station on each of these bands, just for the
sake of doing so.
Then I got interested in using Ham Radio for emergencies and
controlled nets and relayed emergency traffic. I was offered to start off the
GEM (General, Emergency & Medical) Net as the Net Controller by vu2gjr, Dr.
Gaja and vu2ab, OM ram, both from Chennai and I did so for about a year
(vu3rsb, OM Sarath thinks differently…..I suggest he confirm the facts before
giving out (wrong) info on the bands and on the internet). Operating on 7.070
MHz at 2200 IST daily, within a month or so I was logging nearly 50 check-ins
and handled a whale of a lot of traffic. The GEM Net was then the most popular of the local nets.
There were several net controllers after me and then the net was
no more, for reasons not known to me as I was neither on the air nor in contact
with any Ham. Very sad that a net from which so much help / aid was arranged
for the needy is NO MORE….. I wish it could be revived (or has it? I am not on
40 these days).
I parted with my Kenwood rig (a blunder) in 1994 and went off the
band. Came back after a year and have been on 40 & 20 Mtr HB since, mostly
QRP with inv V ants in an ideally high location. With two RM96 boards wired for
40 Mtrs.(30 W) and 20 Mtrs QRP(3 W approx.), have worked DX on 20 Mtrs., the
best of which was KH6HH with a report of 5-7 consecutively for a bout 2
weeks……feather in my cap? Credit goes to the propagation any way. Since I
shifted my shack in early 2002, am QRV on 20 Mtr band only, as there isn’t
enough place for longer antennas. Now starting to HB QRP CW Tx and Rx converter
for the 18MHz & 24MHz bands. Will be QRV on these bands after many
years…….very interesting.
Will scan some qsl cards and upload along with lots of other
stuff.
Thanks to my XYL vu2gwz, Ayesha, (not a very active) Ham for
putting up with my Ham Radio activity. Initially there was qrm from her so my
Ham friends got her to be a Ham too.
As vu2azy, I lived with my xyl, yl harmonic of 4 years and a
boxer (the doggy). Now, after 14 years, the boxer is no more (I have also had, Caravan hound, Saluki, G. Shepherd,
Whippet, etc.)and second yl harmonic
joined us 13 years ago, who wants to be a ham too.
That’s all for now, if I have bored you, pls email me some
bricks.
73 & GL. CU on 20. I check-in to the Air Net very often,
which is conducted on 14.150 MHz daily at 1400 Z.
This site is to be redesigned. Do please come back for more and
better laid out content ……..there’s lots more to tell.. about my experiences,
etc. Thank you!
HELP: Need to
purchase powdered iron core and ferrite toroids of 1” & 0.5” dia (+ specs),
BF967, 966…961, 960 dual gate MOSFETS…..available?
Qsl info =
7-1-65/8, SBI Colony, Off DK Road, Ameerpet, Hyderabad – 500 016.
QSL = direct.
email = [email protected] (email content related to Ham Radio only
to this mail box.)
email = [email protected]
L(and) L(ine)
= +91 040 55824227
Also please
check vu2mir on
www.qrz.com and also on www.buck.com/call
Hyderabad
Repeater on 145.050 [+600] MHz. (has very little to repeat)