Thanks for the acceptance to the group.
I've been interested in radio since I was a kid when my dad bought me the radio shack builders kit. We always had a CB in our cars and trucks. Even today I have a handheld and one mounted in my Jeep. I didn't start to get interested in HAM until around 2010 when our off road 4X4 group began switching from CBs.
In 2024 my neighbor KQ4PYS (Grelon), provided the extra push I needed to pass the Technician exam, and then he drug me into the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) class; which led to joining DART. Dorchester Amateur Radio Team ((DART) ARES) is the first radio "club" I've been a member of, and now I'm here.
I'm looking forward to meeting all of you and learning new things along the way.
My current equipment list:
Baofeng UV-5R
Baofeng 5RM
TidRadio H8
B-Tech UV-Pro
Baofeng DM-1701
iCom 5100
SDRplay RSPduo
RTL-SDR dongles X 4
6 Raspberry Pis all performing different functions
Seeed Meshtastic Solar Node - "solr" "SeeedSolarNodeKQ4PYT"
Seeed Meshtastic Tracker T-1000E - "DART" "KQ4PYT T1000-E"
I have a GMRS license - call sign WSBY423 - but I don't own any GMRS radios.
My current projects are DART ARES related:
dorchesterradio.org is a self hosted Raspberry pi 4 running Apache web server and Wordpress - I want to utilize AREDN, ARDC, FOSS, Nextcloud and much more - to try and build a team web presence that is useful, functional, and resilient.
~73,
Shawn KQ4PYT USAF MSgt(Ret.)
