4x4 ride with anak2 yatim - MARES+MARTS+ORS+BP

Went to the event organised by few parties led by 9W2AXE (Azhar) at Rumah Anak Yatim in Puchong. The ORS + BP teams brought the children on quite an easy ride to the normal place they've frequented, Jln Kebun .. and well, some of us from MARES tag along with the team. 9W2JAZ(Hilux) and finally 9W2BBS(Triton) broke their 'dara' ..

Some photos from the event.





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Off-roading 23/09/2007

Log book and another pole?

I just checked my log book today, hey.. hey, I have eight lines now with twelve contacts! What an achievement .. not! :)

I was on the road today, going out from my housing estate when I met another ham, driving a fully make up 4x4. 9W2AMR .. salam kontak perdana.. His QTH is not that far from mine, might go for an eyeball one of these days with other hams surrounding me. The other one that I know of is 9W2PRO which I have not meet either before.

Ah .. I just couldn't stand that I couldn't do a simplex with many hams in Klang Valley area.. had another look at the back .. and I guess, I need to push my antenna a little bit higher.. so .. here I am again with another aluminum pole .. need to connect the two together and make it a 30 odds feet antenna mast. Just need to find a time though ..

Radio .. am I crazy about amateur radio?? :D

I have no idea really .. it was a ham friend of mine who persuaded me to take up a radio amateur. I went for Radio Amateur Examination last June and I got my license (AA) last month. I was quite happy with a handy which I asked my friend to buy for me, a Yaesu FT-60R until one day, when I tried to start a conversation, it just died on me .. low battery and from that day .. I shy off from transmitting.

Last weekend, I went to Singapore with my family .. shopping for my first ever proper mobile rig. Spent around S$1000++ for a Yaesu FTM-10R, a power supply, SWR meter, vertical antenna (Diamond X200) and yagi antenna (Diamond A144S10).



Bought a 20' aluminum pole for my antenna mast and have my vertical antenna up. Had a short QSO with few ham friends. Still not get into the ham lingo, so sound a bit weird. Anyway .. here is my X200 up at the backyard.

First time on-air today..

Triton - hilang dara :)

Went to my first ever off-road-ing today, somewhere at Jalan Kebun, Klang. It was really fun and since the track was not that hard, it just perfect for newbie/first-timer like me. Went there with five other 4x4, led by Bro Norman Chin. I was guided by Bro Eric ... and thanks to my big bro .. Hatta. This was also the first time I engaged my Triton to 4H/4L .. Here are some photos that I took for the day ..

My W202 C200 Sport - As good as new!

Took my car from workshop today after three weeks it was in the workshop for body respray. Looks as good as new to me :)

The new Mitsubishi Triton

It has been almost a month now since I took a delivery of my new Mitsubishi Triton (technically it is my wife's since I bought on her name/loan). I have not done much on the Triton for now except adding a D-Plus Lock and window's visors.

Anyway, I'm going to post few photos on what people around the world have done to their Triton as a guideline for me for the next modification that I think I would be interested on :)