Ham Looks For New Hobbies

By WBØRUR, on the scene

PORT ARTHUR, OKLA. — Checotah County ham radio operator Bobby Willis says he’s working exclusively “digital” modes from this day forward.

“I really like the way that you can set up the macros, allow the software to automatically log QSOs, and the ability to work stations with low signal to noise ratios,” says Willis.

Willis says he’s been a ham for at least a dozen years, but it was only after four years of “fiddling around” that he actually got his digital mode configurations set the correct way for making contacts.

After you get those digital mode settings correct, don’t touch that dial!

“Yeah, it took awhile,” says the retired electrician. “I just didn’t seem to be able to get all the software, knobs, switches, co-ax connections and options set the correct way at the right time.”

Now, he says, he’s afraid to change to another mode – or it might take another 4 years to get it all put back for digital again.

By the way, Willis says he’s considering taking up additional hobbies to fill the time while his PSK31 macros transmit: hobbies like “long-exposure photography” and “tracking the constellations across the sky.”

You can work Willis on the PSK31 digital mode, Monday – Friday on 14.070MHz on the “Don’t Touch This Net.”

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