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Amateur Radio Station K4MBE (known in real life as Sterrett Carter).

GE Rangr mobile, GE Phoenix-SX mobile, Midland XTR mobile, Regency RH-606-B mobile, GE MPD portable, GE MPA select portable, Motorola MT-2000 (and MTS-2000) portable, Motorola HT-1000 portable and others as I figure them out.

Contents:

• Current Projects
• Personal Interests
• Hot Links List
• Club Memberships
• Contact Information
• Get FREE E-MAIL and Internet access!
• Comments and Suggestions
• What's at this web site (Last updated 05/06/2004)
• What radios are used at Amateur Radio station K4MBE?
• Information and/or hardware I am looking for... (Last updated 7/2/2000)

Current Projects:

• Conversions of Commercial radios to Amateur bands.
• Building a 70cm "Suitcase portable emergency repeater".
• Bicycle mobile operations.

Personal Interests:

• Conversions of Commercial radios to Ham Bands.®, /\/\otorola®, ®, Regency®.
• Packet Radio
• Directed Net participant and NCS (Net Control Station) effectiveness training.
• Emergency Communications A.R.E.S. (Va Amateur Radio Emergency Service link).        
• Emergency Preparedness F.E.M.A. (Federal Emergency Management Agency link).
• List of the 'nets' In the Northern Virginia area.
• My humble opinion of CB Radio.
• My Resumé

Hot Links List:

• Online Amateur practice tests! Courtesy of Pryme Radio (suppliers of Amateur Radios).
• K4MQF - GE Mastr II & other good links! (My good friend Mike)  Also features the K4MQF repeater which uses a GE Rangr 150 as the transmitter.
• TAPR - Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (Get a list of your local packet frequencies from here.)
• Baycom® BP2M serial Modem (Multimode TNC) Small, low cost, and effective. No external power required!
• ARRL - Amateur Radio Relay League, our only advocate in Washington D.C. (Lots of Amateur Radio information.)
• Motorola® transceiver modifications. (www.BatLabs.com)
• NHRC-2, the $60 Repeater Controller "kit".
• Arcade Electronics® - Great store in the Springfield, VA area for general electronic parts and Gel Cell Batteries.

Club Memberships:

• K4US - Mount Vernon Amateur Radio Club - "MVARC" - Alexandria/Fairfax, VA.

• The Capitol Hill Amateur Radio Society (Sadly CHARS - W3USS - closed it's doors April 30, 1999) - Washington D.C. 

Other NoVa area amateur radio clubs:
W4HFH - Alexandria Amateur Radio Club - Alexandria, VA.
        NVFMA - Northern Virginia FM Association - Fairfax, VA.

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Contact Information:

E- mail address:  [email protected] (For legitimate E-Mail, delete "NOSPAM." from the beginning of the address)

If you are in the Washington D.C. area you can contact me 'On -Air'!
            On 2 Meters - try the 146.655- (141.3 CTCSS) repeater, 146.52 or 146.415 simplex, OR 147.315+ (107.2 CTCSS) repeater.
            On 70 cm -  try the Pentagon ARC repeater, , 444.600- (107.2 CTCSS) repeater or 446.000 simplex.
            On GMRS - try 462.625 or 462.725 simplex.

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Comments and Suggestions:

Please send me mail telling me what you think about this site and/or suggestions on how I can improve it.

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Copyright © 1999-2004 Sterrett J. Carter
Last revised - 06 May 2004.

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