Omaha Area EchoLink Repeaters

For anyone who hasn’t tried EchoLink, I highly recommend checking it out and you can use any radio to connect! Below are a couple area repeaters that you can tune to: WBOYLA’s 145.390(-) repeater in Thurman, IA (Node: 366048) KC0VEY’s 443.975(+) PL114.8 repeater in Omaha, NE (Node: 289653) WB0GXD’s 442.525(+) PL100.0 repeater in Council Bluffs, [...]

Kenwood TM-D710

I just picked up a Kenwood D710 and love it!

New Call Sign

So… on 08/19/2008 I applied for the call sign N0AKA. The call sign was assigned to me on 9/6/2008 (taking exactly 18 days – as expected). Previous call sign was KD0EVB. Why N0AKA? Not sure! After trying every possible combination of 1×3 “TOM” allowed by my license, I was pretty fed up and just decided [...]