Hello from Colorado

[K0HY]

Hi all, name here is Jim. Been camping for over 40 yrs using tents, truck campers, class C, and sometimes just out in the open. I do most of my camping while hunting or fishing or playing with my ham radios. I enjoy dry camping where I can put up antennas for my radios. Many hams around the world are amazed when I tell them I have a 12,000 or 13,000 foot tall antenna, comes from camping high in the Colorado Rockies.

Living in townhouse now and not having the room to build anything I am going to hafta be very creative in building hopefully a cargo conversion. Any help from all the vast resources out here in ones and zero land would be appreciated.

I gave up work as a very bad habit so I have lots of time to do builds and not much $$. Illness severely ate into my not working $$.

This seems a very great place to swap information, and a few lies.

See yall around the funny paper.
Jim

[Steve_Cox]

Hi Jim.

Glad you made it over to this part of the forum. The welcome wagon should be along any time now..

Condo and Townhouse living can make you be a little more discrete in your building projects, but there are still a lot of possibilities to explore.

I never did the Ham operator thing, but was an avid SWL into my teen years. The thought of a 12000' antenna sounds fun.

[Weirdnerd]

Welcome!, I tried the HAM radio thing in Peru, in the 80's, a heavily modified walkie talkie, with a 10 watt "shoe" and a homemade " dial - a frequency" made with a heathkit airport radio from the 30's....never went beyond the usual " listen, but can't transmit" thing, I gave up for lack of funds then, now I live in Colorado, so far I have seen 4 teardroppers here, so you would be the fifth...hehehe, don't forget to post pics!

[K0HY]

Thanks for the good words. I am not very good at this internet stuff.

Hope by spring I can find some kind of trailer, probably a cargo, to start building. With no place to work but a parking lot this will be interesting.

Ham radio can be fun and interesting. I have talked to over 200 countries, famous people and people in space.

See yall in the funny paper
Jim

[SSchumacherCO]

Welcome Jim. This forum has an incredible wealth of information. Plus more than a few are hams. Good luck with your build.

Steve
KC0KYK