Ham radio! It's relaxing. My favorite activity is to take my portable gear to parks and operate Parks on the Air.
My brother used to be really big into his ham radio. It got smashed in his move and he never bought another one =\
I am waiting for my exam. After that I will have my own call sign. Ham radio is cool
How do you decide on a call sign?
It is assigned to me I cannot choose call sign unfortunately
What do you think about the baofeng radios with ham? Pretty good to start out with?
They are fine for starting out with, but you'll probably want to upgrade soon. There are better radios for around $75 if you can afford it.
What would you recommend? Is there a good mega thread here?
Most activity, I've seen here: !amateurradio@lemmy.ko4abp.com but there's a lemmy bug that's not showing a bunch of posts. That should be resolved soon.
These are good cheaper radios (The price has gone up a bit)
Ima be honest with ya, I believe those cheaper yaesus are actually practically baofengs component wise. But, they are still a bit better due to some higher quality components and wayyyy better QC. Just wanted to throw this out there.
They’re pretty much baofengs with much better filtering, so you don’t get front end overloading which can be frustrating.
I had no idea about Parks on the Air. Thanks! I'll be checking out.
Hell yeah, came here to say this. 73 friend.
Just getting into Ham radio and SDR myself as of late, so cool and so fun to tweak around with. Got any recommendations for guides or articles to read and learn from? I'm brand new just got a SDR-RTL dongle 📡
You should check out Ham Radio Crash Cpurse on YouTube. Lots of great info there.
Just getting into this myself! Got any recommendations for guids/videos/articles? I'd be happy to check anything out 👍
Ham radio! It's relaxing. My favorite activity is to take my portable gear to parks and operate Parks on the Air.
My brother used to be really big into his ham radio. It got smashed in his move and he never bought another one =\
I am waiting for my exam. After that I will have my own call sign. Ham radio is cool
How do you decide on a call sign?
It is assigned to me I cannot choose call sign unfortunately
What do you think about the baofeng radios with ham? Pretty good to start out with?
They are fine for starting out with, but you'll probably want to upgrade soon. There are better radios for around $75 if you can afford it.
What would you recommend? Is there a good mega thread here?
Most activity, I've seen here: !amateurradio@lemmy.ko4abp.com but there's a lemmy bug that's not showing a bunch of posts. That should be resolved soon.
These are good cheaper radios (The price has gone up a bit)
https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-016123
https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-015573
Ima be honest with ya, I believe those cheaper yaesus are actually practically baofengs component wise. But, they are still a bit better due to some higher quality components and wayyyy better QC. Just wanted to throw this out there.
They’re pretty much baofengs with much better filtering, so you don’t get front end overloading which can be frustrating.
yup
There's also !amateur_radio@lemmy.radio which is reasonably active.
I had no idea about Parks on the Air. Thanks! I'll be checking out.
Hell yeah, came here to say this. 73 friend.
Just getting into Ham radio and SDR myself as of late, so cool and so fun to tweak around with. Got any recommendations for guides or articles to read and learn from? I'm brand new just got a SDR-RTL dongle 📡
You should check out Ham Radio Crash Cpurse on YouTube. Lots of great info there.
Just getting into this myself! Got any recommendations for guids/videos/articles? I'd be happy to check anything out 👍