Re: what do you do with a ham radio?


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Posted by Todd Wilson [71.158.216.89] on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 01:36:53 :

In Reply to: what do you do with a ham radio? posted by mannyc [68.165.89.2] on Monday, March 15, 2010 at 15:18:50 :

You can chat local or within 50 miles pretty easy. You can talk world wide depending in times of day or night and atmosphere conditions. Amatuer radio is not the same all the time. Somedays you cant hear a thing and other days its amazing to hear and make contacts on the other side of the world.


Lots of people rag chew. Groups get together and chat. They have nets where many many people check in and basically chat about their day. There are other nets for emergency communications. Groups practice so they can help in a disaster. They can help with storm spotting. Some guys do morse code only. Others use digital forms of communications, Some do TV stuff like Paul talked about. Some see how far they can get on the least amount of power. Some build antenna's. Try different things. Others try to run legal limit on power. Some guys string a wire thru trees while other guys will build a station on a mountain top. They have contests at certain times of the year and you try and see how many contacts you can get. Some guys try and get contacts from all countries,states and counties in the USA. Most satelites have a repeater on them so people try and make a long distance contact via the satelite. You have minutes to do it before it goes zipping by and out of range. Some guys want legal limit amplifiers and the most brand new radios you can get while others like to use the oldest rigs possible. Solid state or all vacuum tube. They like to launch weather balloons with SSTV and repeaters on them. Then theres a chase team that tracks the balloon so when it pops and falls back to earth they can retreive ther equipment. Some people have doppler radar on their vehicles. They have HF and UHF/VHF radios in their cars. I heard a guy the other day on 17 meters driving a car in Texas talk to a guy in italy.


The list goes on and on. Seems to be no end to what you can do with amatuer radio.

And yes in a time of emergency or disaster the hams will be the only ones talking. You can bank on that!

Todd




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