THE DIGITAL AMATEUR RADIO STATION / JT65/FT8/DSTAR/E-LINK

WF3I

Penn, USA

Licensed at 20/OCT/2015 by FCC

ARRL Volunteer Exminer

ex W3ANA/KB3WQY

Large Visitor Globe

Now, I have current 3 station licenses and callsigns;

JH8XGS 1.9MHz - 1.2GHz 50 watts (Except 1.2GHz-1w limited) portable station.

JJ1RYD 1.9MHz - 1.2GHz: HF+6m - 200 watts, 2m and 70cm -50 watts, 1.2GHz - 10 watts fixed station.

WF3I the U.S. FCC amateur radio license.

My orginal station licensed in January 30th 1977, callsign wasJJ1RYD,located in Nerima-ku, Tokyo.After that I moved to Obama-city, Fukui-ken and chenged call sgin was JA9UJF.In 80's moved again to Omu-town, Mombetsu-gun, Hokkaido re-chenged callsignJH8XGSwas grant. I was back to Tokyo but I didn't change callsign, and still use it.JH8XGS NERIMA-CITY, TOKYO

Reasinged same callsign JJ1RYD at 15th May 2012, HF, VHF, UHF 200 watts fixed station at Nerima-city, Tokyo.

Now, I've very interested in D-STAR system. Our neighbourhood D-STAR repeater is JP1YIW. Try to call "/JP1YIWB".I use DV-dongle, direct connect to repeaters and refrectors out side of Japan. REF004B is my favorit.

I joined to historical local amature radio community in May 2012, JA1YSW-Musashino ARC, club funded in 1954.

JT65A mode on 20m, 15m and 10m bands.

Spesial event station operates;

• Jun 1980: 8J1ITU International Telecomunications Union
• Mar - May 2012: 8J1IZ Inokasira Zoo 70th Aniversary.
• Jul 2012: 8J3A Kansai HAM Frstival
• Aug 2012: 8J1A Tokyo Amateur Radio Festival.
• Sep - Oct 2012: 8J1S8X Suginami-city 80th Anversary.
• Apr - Sep 2013:8N1A 40th year of ASEAN - Japan Friendship and cooperation.
• 22 Sep 2013:8J8RALLY
• Mostly oparate D-star by DV-dongle and JT65A HF high bands;

• IC9100 HF VHF UHF ALL BAND ALL MODE INCLUDE DV/JT65A MODE
• ID1 1.2GHz BAND FM/DV/DD MODE
• IC2720 VHF FM MODE AND MONITORING AIR BANDS
• FT450 HF + 6m SUB TRCV AND PORTABLE USE
• ID31 70cm DV/FM HANDY TRCV
• ID51 2m/70cm DV/FM/Airband TRCV
• VX-8G VHF/UHF FM/APRS AIRBANDS HANDY TRCV
• TS520 HF OLDTIMER
• C160 BY STANDERD OLD HANDY TRCV 2m AND Air band TRCV
• ID800 UHF DV/FM MOBILE TRCV (Gone to JG1 Friend)
• TH-F7 VHF UHF Air Band HANDY TRCV(Gone to JH1 friend)
• DV-Dongle + Laptop PC + High Speed Internet (FTTH)

QSL CARD INFO:

• Please send your QSL card via buro JH8XGS.
• e-QSL & LoTW welcome!
• Please do not send QSL to my US address by postal mail.
• If you a member of ARRL, you can see my currentmailing address at ARRL web site.

Dear outside of Japan D-STAR users;

Currentry, Japanese D-STAR management system server is still old 1st generation under the JARL. Please understand,AllJA's D-STAR users (expect DV-dongle and DVAP users) are can't nomal connect to REFLECTORS and G2+DPLUS system use repeaters.

If you call JA station, please check and change your tranciver's setting below;

"UrCALL" setting for JA's repeater callsign. ex. "/JP1YIWA" on clumn. "/" mean same as CQCQCQ.

"RPT1" your local repeater callsin ex."W0ANA B", callsign plus "A", "B" or "C" for difirrent each band located at7thcharacter position of REP1 column. Almost repeater use "A" = 23cm band, "B" = 70cm band and "C" = 2m band.

"RPT2" your local repeater gateway ex."W0ANA G", maybe "G" (mean gateway ID)located at7thcharacter posision of REP2 column.

Notover the gatway when RPT2 column "NOTUSE".

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