HPR4673: First contact conversation

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Hello, this is your host, Archer72 for another episode of Hacker Public radio.

In this episode, I make my first contact off a local repeater in a small town in Kentucky.

What got me to try my hand at radio? It was when I started to capture ISS (International Space Station) Ham radio transmissions. From Kentucky, I have logged receiving from Texas and Oregon and as far as a brief transmission over Great Britain.

My next step was to have a first contact, which I botched at first when I said my call sign, and didn’t leave enough time for someone to respond.

I thought that a repeater was the best place to start, so found this one on RepeaterBook.com

The repeater was found in RepeaterBook at RepeaterBook : My local Cynthiana, Kentucky repeater

Youtube : Harrison County Amateur Radio Club

QRZ : Harrison County Amateur Radio Club

Facebook : Harrison County Amateur Radio Club

The callsign for this repeater is Kilo-Four-Kilo-Juliett-Quebec

It is currently On Air (and quite active near club time and the weekend)

The base frequency is 147.165 MHz with an offset of plus (+) 600 KHz and a tone to open the repeater, of 67.0 Hz

It is hosted by the Bluegrass Amateur Radio Society

The RepeaterBook entry was updated on 2025-10-27

K4KJQ
On-Air
Open
 147.16500 (+) MHz 67.0

Cynthiana • Harrison County • Kentucky

Updated 2025-10-27


Technical
Downlink    147.16500
Uplink  147.76500
Offset  +0.600
Uplink Tone 67.0
Downlink Tone   67.0
Antenna (AGL)   125 feet
Sponsor: Bluegrass Amateur Radio Society
Sponsor: BARS 
Local Time  04:30 (EDT UTC-04:00 DST)
America/New_York
Reviewed    2025-10-27

Bluegrass Amateur Radio Society

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So, with after all that being said I programmed a Baofeng BF-F8HP to this frequency manually. You can also use open source Chirp software, but I wanted to know my radio to program it on the fly.

This brings me to a recording with permission from Keith (KO4BWJ) who is located outside this little A notable feature of this the town of Cynthiana, Kentucky is the hometown of the artist Robert Kirkman for the Television series The Walking Dead, and home to the mural depicting the main characters of the show. This mural had some controversy over the rights to have it depicted, or so I thought. The actual story is story is that some groups did not want a Zombie theme representing their town.

Cynthiana, Kentucky: Walking Dead Mural

Without further delay, here is the promised recording.

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I hope you enjoyed and learned from this little piece of an experience Ham vs a new (to the airwaves) Ham.

This has been Archer72 (Kilo-Delta-Niner-Victor-Mike-Whiskey)

73

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