Ameteur Radio, Anyone?

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Olon

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I'm a little over a week out from my exam at a local club. Testing for the tech and general class licenses. I think the tech will be pretty easy as I can do a pretty good job of eliminating answer choices but the general seems like it will be a bit tougher... imagine that haha. Seems like it could be a cool hobby. I don't know much about radios but I'm generally curious and it could be fun to tinker with. Right now I just have the famous (or infamous) Baofeng UV-5R but would like a mobile setup once I know what I'm doing a bit more.

Just curious if anyone else on NTT is into that stuff.
 
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roscoe

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Ya. Tech license here. Working on my general. Slowly. Got a FT-818 and a big old wire over my house. Kinda getting into Morse and want to get one of those Altoids radios.
 
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Gridley

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I picked up a technician license in college and have renewed since, but I've only been on nets other people were running.
 
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Olon

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roscoe said:
Ya. Tech license here. Working on my general. Slowly. Got a FT-818 and a big old wire over my house. Kinda getting into Morse and want to get one of those Altoids radios.
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I'm also working on learning morse code. It takes a bit of patience
 
theotherwaldo

theotherwaldo

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Nope.
Closest that I ever got was communicating across the valleys of Northern California with my Dad using flashlight morse code.
 
wiscoaster

wiscoaster

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I was a Novice back in about 1963. Took over my mother's root cellar for my shack. Built my own CW xmtr from plans in AARL handbook. Had to let the hobby go when rock 'n roll captured me. But I still pine for my Hammarlund HQ110A rcvr. Wow, what a gorgeous piece of hardware. Transistors suck.
 
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roscoe

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wiscoaster said:
I was a Novice back in about 1963. Took over my mother's root cellar for my shack. Built my own CW xmtr from plans in AARL handbook. Had to let the hobby go when rock 'n roll captured me. But I still pine for my Hammarlund HQ110A rcvr. Wow, what a gorgeous piece of hardware. Transistors suck.
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You can get one for $400, no problem. But it won't do SSB. I want an FT-101. Completely analog but does SSB. Modern menu-driven radios are a pain to use. You have to memorize the sequence through the menus. Ugh. Give me hard switches.
 
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