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08-09-2017, 05:53 PM | Topic Starter |
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HAM Radio operators
Anyone here? In light of recent events I'm seriously considering getting my license and a nice home base station. Any suggestions from current radio operators?
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08-09-2017, 06:30 PM | #2 |
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What recent events?
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08-09-2017, 06:32 PM | #3 |
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I like HAM sandwiches - that's about all I have to offer in this thread.
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08-09-2017, 07:42 PM | #4 |
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My father was an avid ham radio operator. He was on his gear every single day/evening. I still remember his call sign/letters: w0pgk. He would talk to people all over the world.
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08-10-2017, 10:16 AM | #5 |
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Mine too. WBØSRO
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08-09-2017, 07:46 PM | #6 |
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I'm licensed, but haven't done much with it in years. Now that I live in an apartment, that puts an end to anything but local stuff on 2 meters.
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08-09-2017, 07:49 PM | #7 |
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Grandpa was one. He had a lot of good friendships over the HAM.
I don't know what the equipment is like these days, but his had a giant apparatus on his roof. I always had to climb up there and monkey with it if there was monkeying to do. |
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08-09-2017, 08:10 PM | #8 |
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The radios themselves have changed. All digital, smaller, but still expensive. Antennas are still big, unless you just use a long wire like I always did (antennas can't' help it, they are limited by the laws of physics concerning radio waves and radio wave propagation).
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08-09-2017, 08:16 PM | #9 |
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Played around on it a lot when I was in Boy Scouts and knew nothing whatsoever about how they worked.
Now I know how they work and haven't seen one in person in decades.
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08-09-2017, 08:36 PM | #10 |
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Ham radio? Is this a real topic?
Nerds gonna Nerd.
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08-09-2017, 08:53 PM | #11 |
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DC can't respond right now, he's out back digging a ditch to bury the school bus full of canned goods he bought on Craigslist.
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08-09-2017, 09:57 PM | #12 |
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08-09-2017, 08:39 PM | #13 |
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No. I live in 2017. Not 1987
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08-09-2017, 09:04 PM | #14 | |
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I have my license and play around a bit with it. Getting the license is really easy to do. Search a study guide online and practice a few times and you'll get the hang of it pretty quick. If I remember right it was 14 bucks to take the test. I recommend looking at a baofeng handheld unit on Amazon cor your first radio. Very cheap compared to other models and works great.
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