Amateur (Ham) Radio BS and Callsign Thread!

Heck yea! Welcome back

 

I had a hytera UHF dmr radio and a tinyshark RF NOde set up at my house before I left. it worked well. clear coms. But for where I am at now analog should be the main coms in the greater seattle wa area.

 

@BillW Congrats to a new ham, he is waiting on his call.

Come to another TW thread that your wallet will hate.

 

Photo of my wallet

 

My wallet continues to hate me all the time.

Thinking about a portable hf rig now.

 

Portable rigs suck.

 

Where is the best place to operate ham radios? Looking to get more serious now that life has calmed down.

 

How portable?

I am loving my Yaesu 931A, it is light and designed to be portable, just not backpack portable.

 

Anywhere you can lol. What would you like to do?

 

That a 991a?

If so..




I'm thinking more of a FT-891 portable for camping and taking to work with me. Smaller than the 991A and about half the price.

 

The D710G begs to differ. Now if it just did hf it would be golden.

 

You're gonna love parks on the air.

 

The backpack portable gold standard would be the KX2. Really fun radio.

 

I rushed through typing that, looking 6the best method of really learning to effectively use the radio.

 

Sure thing. What kind of radio do you have?

 

$190 Yaesu ft-60r DualBand Handheld 5W VHF/UHF Amateur Radio Transceiver - Dual Band

Yaesu ft-60r with what i think is a diamond srh77ca antenna, I've got a few

$18 baofeng UV-5r VHF/UHF dual band radio 144-148mhz 420-450mhz transceiver

baofeng UV-5r classics on the way too.

 

Can always start on the local repeaters. Visit a local amateur radio club if there’s one in the area. That FT-60 is a lot better radio than any Baofeng. If you have digital in your area maybe a FT-70 (If C4FM or wires X interests you and you have a repeater for it in the area).

 

Ran across this antenna on r/amatuerradio and thought I would share.

https://compactenna.com

Here is what the offer... interesting
Ham Radio: Dual, Tri-Band and Multi-Band Antennas
2 Meters/220/440
2 Meters/440
6 Meters/2 Meters/440
10 Meters/2 Meters/440
20 Meters/2 Meters/440
The HamR-7 Series – Multiple HF Bands in Each Antenna

CB + Ham Radio
CB/2 Meters/440

The guy on reddit claims to have made 114 mile single hop APRS connection with it.

Not my truck/install

 

Interesting

 

I know a couple Colorado TW members with those antennas. Haven’t heard any major complaints out of them, but don’t get the impression they are particularly impressive antennas from them either.