I think the difference between amateur and pro is the ability to charge money… maybe he is a skydiver for hire.
From: BVARC <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rick Hiller via BVARC Sent: Wednesday, October 2, 2024 12:21 PM To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <[email protected]> Cc: Rick Hiller <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [BVARC] Skydiving Ham Interesting from a jumpers standpoint. Once under canopy, you gotta do something to kill time, especially from 10 grand on down under a square is a long time. Question….how do you become a “professional” skydiver? Ex-sport hobby parachutists wud like to know….. tnx. 73…W5RH Rick Hiller W5RH e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Cell/VM/Text: 832-474-3713 Physical: 9031 Troulon Drive Houston, TX 77036 On Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 7:58 AM Chris Medlin via BVARC <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I discovered this guy last night. He is a professional sky diver and is passionate about Ham Radio… so… what does that mean? He jumps out of perfectly good airplanes at 14,000 ft and as he floats down to the ground, he is either making dozens of “parachute mobile” contacts on 52 direct… or… he is working HF sideband on an Icom 705 (or 7300) and an endfed antenna. If you get some time today, check out his channel. His main channel link is below.. and then ive added a couple others as well for the busy ham who doesn’t need to be bothered with searching the site: Main YouTube page: Introduction to Life At Terminal Velocity (youtube.com)<https://www.youtube.com/@LifeAtTerminalVelocity> 52 simplex over Napolean Michigan: https://youtu.be/VN_PZAfJHVI?si=2of03SqQeVcfDDCi 20M SSB on a IC-7300 over Rochelle Illinois. At around the 5 min mark, he works WB5CIT in Boerne TX from about 9,000 ft. https://youtu.be/srzKnZ1cNaE?si=TVyhAD55jHGnvZcY Plenty more videos to check out. 73 and have fun Chris/ac5cm ________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org Publicly available archives are available here: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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