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amateur operator wrote:Any chance you might have some hf gear aboard. Like to work your ship from here.

Ron, VE3GO, Marine Columnist Monitoring Times.

Hi Ron, The ship does have HF radios. I am not allowed to use them while the ship in under way. However I may be able to use them when we dock. If not I do have a semiportable HF station I am going to set up on the ship in the fall I which then we could work from there. If you send me your email address to kj4uev@hotmail.com and send some frequencies you'd like me to try I'll give it a shot. I'm hoping by the end of the year to have the ship with it's own club license.

Any chance you might have some hf gear aboard. Like to work your ship from here.

Ron, VE3GO, Marine Columnist Monitoring Times.

Guest wrote:You're back at the Academy?

Yes I am. I have one sea project left to do then I'm able to graduate.

You're back at the Academy?

I will be sailing as a cadet on the T/V State of Michigan this summer till around the first of July.

I have brought both a VHF-FM and a duel band VHF/UHF-FM Amateur Radios out on the sea project with me to try and make as many contacts as I can for the summer. Anyone interested can listen on the local 2 meter repeaters for my call sign;
Marine Mobile KJ4UEV. (I will try and get the local 440 repeaters as well but UHF doesn't get the range that VHF does so I tend to favor 2 Meters)

Some of the places we will be stopping this summer is
Detroit, Cleveland, Duluth, Port Huron. I also have a 3db gain antenna which should give me a good reach when we are off shore mid-lake.

I wish everyone a good summer and hope to hear you on the air

73
Steve
KJ4UEV

PS When I get off the T/V State of Michigan I will make up some special QSL cards and mail them out to all my contacts