Amateur (Ham) Radio BS and Callsign Thread!

Steal Phil's mag mount haha


I actually get great range with my hd1 on mine

 

I’ve got a dual band mag mount I just don’t use it. Analog side of repeater is linked to DMR side so really no need locally for it. I just use analog when I’m in the truck on the 710.

 

for the VHF, and depending on terrain. I'll run either a Larsen (NMOQC) 1/4 wave 19" antenna, or a Larsen (NMO-150BHW) 1/2 wave antenna that's 55" or something like that. Running a Tram Dual band for the VHF/UHF.

https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-006046

https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-000623

$25 TRAM 140MHz-170MHz + 430MHz-470MHz Dual Band NMO Antenna (1181)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IDTJ2KE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

I run the Larsen 19", so far made contact at random about 60 miles away. I went with Larsen, cuz supposedly, that's what law enforcement and emergency vehicles use, as well as our work trucks run a few of them

 

I personally use semaphore for my spotter guidance.

Turn passenger ->

Give it the gas!

 

I never leave home without my Benchmark maps book for the state(s) I'm going to. For a paper map, they actually have a very fine level of detail for the places I go.

Only thing they don't have was a warning that going up a certain road in the west desert of Utah puts you on the Dugway Proving Ground / Bomb range and you don't know that until you hit the gate for the mainside base. At which point you have to do about a 50 mile loop to get 5 linear miles for the road home.

 

Anddddd that's why we carry extra fuel haha

 

Oh, I'm covered on consumables. It's just the extra hour and a half to get home.

 

GAH! I must have been very drunk. I'm usually a stickler for "your" versus "you're". I can feel the nuns beating on me from the grave.

 

Just passed my Technician, KE0VVZ assigned to me.

 

Congratulations @KTM753

 

Congrats man!

 

It's obvious to follow the rules, but you gotta smirk a bit while reading this. And an extra to boot.

http://www.arrl.org/news/radio-amateur-to-lose-license-as-part-of-enforcement-case-settlement

 

what the heck was the guy doing? Farting in the MIC?

 

OK, I've missed a few days! If you're interested in HAM radio and anywhere near the Huntsville, TX area my group is putting on a demonstration for our Field Day event. June 22nd, Saturday. We will be offering hotdogs and water for free for those that care to attend.

 

Don't have time to wait for RAM mounts to show up in the mail? Print your own!
The knuckle joint below ended up being a bit too big and awkward

 

VERY close. He was playing a "sad trombone" sound effect. What a complete moron.

 

Any field day participants out there today? I plan on this evening or tomorrow morning.

 

Getting loaded up now.

 

We just got in from field day.

Little man was interested in the CW station. They gave him a practice key and he popped his name out like he’d been doing it for months.