Amateur (Ham) Radio BS and Callsign Thread!

Yeah buddy! Time to have some fun now.

 

Congrats!

 

Does anyone know of some good ham forums that would be good for discussing a lot of the basic stuff and just gaining overall knowledge about this stuff, kinda like tacomaworld, but for hams?

 

QRZ, but like most forums, there are a few assholes. When you come across them, just remember that those guys probably still live in their moms basements and their equipment is coated with cat hair and smells like piss..

 

What Cavmedic said! I read QRZ forum, but don't post because of the jerks that LOVE to DumpsterFire your thread.

 

Sorry, forgot .... DE N3QAM

 

I'd ask a lot of your questions on here. Probably the most friendly hams online and in general besides local ones.

 

Copy that. I will probably have some good questions once my radio gets here and get to installing it. So far made a few contacts with the

$50 uv-5r ham radio handheld long range (UV-5R 8watt) UHF/VHF radio with 2 rechargeable battery, portable radio for adults with earpiece, GV-771 antenna, BAOFENG programming cable (3rd gen)

uv-5r. But nothing to reliable yet.

 

G5RV made it up into the sky today. A little over 40' up there. Lightning protection installed and the coax is in the basement. Tomorrow, hopefully, it'll make it to the ham shack.

 

Best HF antenna I have ever owned is a Hex Beam.

 

Search, I dont often ask questions... eHam, QRZ forum, WorldwideDX radio forum

 

Anyone have any good Hamvention hauls?

I got a 60' fiberglass mast from spiderbeam. Planning to use it for either an 80m vertical or a portable repeater antenna mast. For the repeater antenna, I'll either try making a 9db collinear from 1/2 wave bits of coax, or possibly build a DBJ-2. It will be interesting to see if the mast can take the weight of the coax, I'm planning to use rg-223 feedline.

I got a UHF (r-split) Motorola HT750 for $10 with speaker / mic and also a few 50 ohm terminators with an N connector for tuning cavities. It was a great weekend!

I have all day to make a 2.5 hour drive home. I might try to find a detour where I can do a little wheeling with the Taco.

 

I'd suggest asking here.

 

No Hauls from the Kuwait Sandbox.... but ive had a 50' Pup from https://mgs4u.com love it used it many times for many things

 

Mine still hasn't showed up yet...

 

Doesn’t xylophone have an F in it?

 

I really expected it to take longer because the examiners said they mail the stuff in. Hang in there!

 

Mine took 2-3 weeks. Depends on who you tested with.

 

Gosh I hope it doesn't take three weeks.

 

Tested on a Thursday evening and received my call the following Wednesday. My testing station emailed the scores.