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Me and Mom in dad's radio room 1974

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 K7MMI
Welcome to PSMRG. We have been serving the greater Puget Sound area for over a decade by utilizing some of the areas best radio sites in Western Washington. Supported by the community, individuals and corporate institutions, our repeater system includes state of the art equipment with emergency appeal. Our hardware is installed using local, state and federal guidelines as the baseline. With these rules and regulations, comes much expense in providing the best operations for our users and communities. Each site and its equipment utilize battery, generator or a combination of the two in order to provide uninterrupted communicates in times of emergencies as well as overlapping transmitter sites for better system coverage. We also provide automatic emergency weather alerts from The National Weather Service and participate in the Skywarn/Spotter program. 


AREA AND FREQUENCY
  Baldi Mt.             146.980  -  131.8 tone encode/decode     (Everett to Oly)                         Link=no          Note: 

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​​History of K7MMI

Silent Key: Donald G Kruml K7MMI  1927 - 1995
As a young boy in the 30's, our Dad was very interested in electronics, radios and trains along with a passion for fishing. Building small radios out of tubes, plywood, and dry cell batteries, some of which he would mount to his Whizzer bike so he and friends could stay in contact when traveling down to the train yards in and around Portland Oregon and yes, even jumping a freight train with his camera to some unknown location. He got his schooling from Benson Polytech High School class of 1945 in Portland with studies in Technical Electric, he would join the Army. He completed Eastern Signal Corps Schools in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. In 1946 he got his ham license W2SQS and later would get his first class radio license in 1950 and work for Philco Corporation in the Government and Industrial Division in field engineering. In 1956 he became a Motorola certified technician working for Smeed Sound Service, and once employed with Salt Lake Pipeline, would start maintaining mountain and mobile two-way radio systems gear and would upgrade his amateur license to K7MMI. After employment began in 1957 with Fish Engineering and the construction of the interstate natural gas pipeline.

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In 1985 he would retire from Northwest Pipeline Corporation as a Senior Technical Specialist stationed at Sumner Compressor Station No.15 Redmond District, a spin-off of the original Fish Engineering construction,  Pacific Northwest Pipeline and El Pasco Natural Gas.

For my brothers and I, he was very influential in our understanding of radio, electronics, and yes, trains. We would spend countless hours listening to the old SX-42 in the dinning room, tuning back and forth around the bands looking for any small bits of information. It was normal to hear the teletypes pounding away out the in radio room under the squeal noise of tuning around in the HF band.
So you see, K7MMI is not just another call sign, but it's a life long memory of our dad and all he taught me and my brothers. He passed away in 1995, one year before I started the Cougar Mountain repeaters and once dad’s call sign expired, I applied to the FCC for a club call under K7MMI. I'm sure that today he is looking down on us with a quiet smile on his face. Still I have days working at my sites, when I feel his hand on my shoulder.

Thanks Dad for looking out for me and opening up so many opportunities.

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