N5NTG | 
08 28th, 2010| 
KE6LGE Al Fields Driving Taxi #32 in San Antonio
Al Fields, KE6LGE, member of the Hill Country REACT Team, has taken his people & radio skills to a new height!
Those of us who worked the Tour de Cure these past couple of years, have grown familiar to hearing his melodious voice on the air as net control on the ham radio. Now, you hardly see him at ham radio events or meetings, because he’s busy taking folks from point A to point B and then to point C, or back again.
He’s become an ambassador to San Antonio, picking up rides from the SA Airport, or bringing them in from outlying towns and cities. Al now drives for Yellow Cab, in a brand new Toyota Sienna mini-van, yellow of course.
Al, who is a former law enforcement officer from both here in San Antonio and Southern California, runs what is called a “micro-node” transmitter from his Taxi, connected to IRLP. He uses his Motorola 1250 HT to access the micro-node or local repeaters when not driving passengers around. Al is running on the simplex UHF frequency, 445.500, with no pl tone, but you need to be within 50′ of his taxi (moving target) or connect to another IRLP node to reach him.
Al still operates a fixed base IRLP node at his house, over near Marshall High School on Eckert Road, using the same simplex frequency 445.500, but with a PL tone of 100 required for access.
