Make sure you are searching on his full legal name. Then try variations.
How long ago was he active?
Make sure you are searching on his full legal name. Then try variations.
How long ago was he active?
Try
www.arrl.org/news/nationa...
Or
www.qrz.com
(Upper left, under the QRZ logo. Change search parameters as needed.)
arrl.org is a good resource, esp in the US. They also have a list of US clubs which can be really helpful for new hams.
W4EEY on YouTube has great study courses using the ARRL study manuals (make sure you are watching the latest v., intro vid will tell you). Many other options as well
Good luck!
Congratulations!
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Just getting started.
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Welcome!
Correct. You need a license to transmit on the amateur radio frequencies. Have fun!
Good luck!
I donβt care how you season it, ham radios definitely taste more like radio than they do ham
Avoid the smoked radio though. Nasty.
I think I'd like to get into shortwave radio, ham radio or whatever but it seems so expensive to get the equipment and basically impossible to set up in an apartment setting, maaaaybe there's a flexible antenna that I could run atop the crown molding? but it just seems so expensive
Expensive is relative, but there are now more budget friendly gear out there. YouTube has many hits on βham radio on a budgetβ.
If you want to listen search for KiwiSDR or webSDR.
arrl.org is a good resource, esp in the US. They have a list of US clubs which can be really helpful for new hams.
Similar struggle here. At the moment, me and the letter βGβ are having a tussle. I consistently hear βPβ.
I set the LICW software between 25 and 35 as otherwise I start counting dits and dahs. This is single characters.
Words and numbersβ¦thatβs a different kettle of fish.
Learn #CW at 25 wpm (at least), not 5.
Working on a simple app for seeing #SOTA spots map at a glance while activating...
Now thinking in the best way to show them filtered at weekends, by now only mode filters.
More info when "polished"
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Congrats!
This might help:
go.bsky.app/K3cwqKJ
Congrats!
Thatβs the βrun with itβ part.
Just think of it as bling and run with it.
18 gauge speaker wire should not be a problem. If I routinely need a lot of heat over a large area, then I might worry. Donβt know about the Ryobi.
FWIW, I dithered long and hard over the Pine64 vs a soldering station. It was the portability and reviews that finally won me over.
Good luck!
Electronics folks: Is a usb-C soldering iron (pine64) workable? I canβt decide between that and a Harbor Freight starter kit to start building amateur radio antennas (so not super detail work).
Love my Pine64. The tip it comes with is not so great, so I got the fine point kit. Iβve used it to build a few kits and my coax cables. Only antennas Iβve built have been light wire, so YMMV depending on the tasks you are putting it through.
<deep breath>
Restarting Long Island #CW Club tonight.
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