Ham Radio Operators

[ubergeek]

Any one else in here a licensed operator ?

[tye_the_pony]

i am 

[ubergeek]

Have you done any projects with your nas freenas/hex with software ? I am currently running NodeRed and Openwebrx 

[tye_the_pony]

not yet im limited what i can do with living in a apt 

[ubergeek]

ahh depends , I was still running a full setup while i lived in one, just have to get creative on how you build antennas, I was lazy and ran Ham Sticks and wire ground plane 

[Erik Andersen]

On 12/12/2024 at 7:48 AM, ubergeek said:

Any one else in here a licensed operator ?

Licensed HAM here. 

[ubergeek]

I would ask for Calls but im not trying to get DOxxed lol 5 call here 

[Makani Kai]

I am, but I don’t do much with it. Mostly I just take a Baofeng camping in case I need emergency communication. But that’s slowly becoming not an issue anymore. My iPhone does SMS texting over satellite, for example. I would talk to people but there’s like nobody my age on the air. I feel like I missed a fun era

[ubergeek]

8 hours ago, Makani Kai said:

I am, but I don’t do much with it. Mostly I just take a Baofeng camping in case I need emergency communication. But that’s slowly becoming not an issue anymore. My iPhone does SMS texting over satellite, for example. I would talk to people but there’s like nobody my age on the air. I feel like I missed a fun era

 Uhf/Vhf can be dead in some areas. I am mostly on HF you can find a topic of conversation on the lower bands. But I do recommend that if the area is dead reach out to the repeater owners and suggest running a NEt to bring it back to life. you  can easily find a list of hams in your area and make a mailing list to say that a net is coming back to the area and it would be nice if they could join

[Dylan]

I've always thought this might be fun and every top tier engineer I've worked with was a HAM radio enthusiast.

[ubergeek]

15 hours ago, Dylan said:

I've always thought this might be fun and every top tier engineer I've worked with was a HAM radio enthusiast.

If you like to tinker and build things it is a fun past time, I have rather enjoyed my self in all the little projects that can be found  

[jpadgett]

On 12/19/2024 at 10:43 AM, ubergeek said:

If you like to tinker and build things it is a fun past time, I have rather enjoyed my self in all the little projects that can be found  

Yea I was one of those really bad CB boys. I. had a 100ft crackup Tower dual Y quad on top. Collins 30  or 32 i think transmitter and receiver on 11mhz range, The I go one of the Heath Kit rigs transmitter and Rec sets. That was back in the late mid 70's thru maybe 84 and I moved and never lived anywhere that i could put one up..

 

 

Edited December 21, 2024 by jpadgett

[ubergeek]

1 hour ago, jpadgett said:

Yea I was one of those really bad CB boys. I. had a 100ft crackup Tower dual Y quad on top. Collins 30  or 32 i think transmitter and receiver on 11mhz range, The I go one of the Heath Kit rigs transmitter and Rec sets. That was back in the late mid 70's thru maybe 84 and I moved and never lived anywhere that i could put one up..

 

 

Once upon a life I had a 8 driving 32 in the mobile so I understand lol

[jpadgett]

20 hours ago, ubergeek said:

Once upon a life I had a 8 driving 32 in the mobile so I understand lol

I use to do a lot of mods with my Uncle on CB's. There was this company can't remember the name but they released magazines that told you how to mod a CB  40 above 40 below and if SSB to slide a whole channel, me and my uncle we lived about 70 miles apart and talked all the time back then. Really miss those days. Tech is great but some of the people I talk to at night and on the weekend were actually better friends that I have to this day.

[donni]

Lmao the crossover here is hilarious.

Just got a xiegu x6200 can't wait to play with it in the coming days.