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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
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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)
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