INGO HAM radio thread - official

[Davegrave]

A thread for all things having to do with radio fun within our fine state.

All kinds of exciting talk about equipment, laws, frequencies, if the police arrested a shoplifter at a gas station near you.

Enjoy.

 

[shibumiseeker]

By "official" do you mean sanctioned by the site staff? Cuz there's like hundreds of ham radio threads out there on this site.

 

[fullmetaljesus]

By "official" do you mean sanctioned by the site staff? Cuz there's like hundreds of ham radio threads out there on this site.

I think it would be totally rad to have a ham radio section around here.

 

[jedi]

By "official" do you mean sanctioned by the site staff? Cuz there's like hundreds of ham radio threads out there on this site.

Nah he is just tired that some of us NWI INGO members are using the Unoffical NWI INGO Status Thread to talk about ham radio stuff.

NWI Ingo General Post - Page 334 - INGunOwners


So he would like us to move here instead but since he wrote this post for all of INGO users and we NWI INGOer don't like the rest of you hill billies south of us I'm not sure I will post in here.

 

[canav844]

Official, is this an FCC OO sting operation?

 

[NapalmFTW]

They're watching.

I vote for this being an "official" ham radio thread. Keep all the wannabes and losers out :P

 

[Hogwylde]

Does this mean we have to post and use our "official" call signs too?

 

[Dead Duck]

Oh Boy - Can I be Rubber Ducky?

 

[Expat]

What if I want to start the OFFICIAL thread?

 

[NapalmFTW]

I've already posted my call here a few times but I won't again... but the last three are UZB and I'm a filthy no-code General.

 

[cexshun]

I'm a lowly no code tech, although I can copy and send code at 20wpm. I'm mainly into skywarn, so I have no want or need to take any further tests. I keep to the 2 meter band with the lids.

 

[fullmetaljesus]

Im a tech as well. Id like to get involved in skywarn. My baofeng 2m radio is always with me.

 

[NapalmFTW]

You should have a want to "upgrade". For personal improvement and learning which is what the licence is all about really.

But that's just me.

Then again I only scraped by the General test. I'd been a ham for over 10 years though back in the UK and most of my failed questions were on licence regs and rules (which I should've studied but hadn't planned on taking the general that day).

Personally I've always been a listener more than a talker. I'm into digital radio (P25) as well as satellites and software defined radios (SDRs). I love to tinker with stuff and have modified nearly every radio I own.

 

[cexshun]

Im a tech as well. Id like to get involved in skywarn. My baofeng 2m radio is always with me.

Here's a nice online seminar/class/presentation on storm spotting. I found it very informative.

2009 webshow

I have a Yaesu handy talkie that I take mobile with me for emergencies, but I hate it. Way too many features crammed into a tiny radio with limited buttons. Each button has 4 functions depending on how long you hold it or if alt or F are pressed first. And then an additional 52 menu options.

 

[NapalmFTW]

Here's a nice online seminar/class/presentation on storm spotting. I found it very informative.

2009 webshow

I have a Yaesu handy talkie that I take mobile with me for emergencies, but I hate it. Way too many features crammed into a tiny radio with limited buttons. Each button has 4 functions depending on how long you hold it or if alt or F are pressed first. And then an additional 52 menu options.

I agree with you totally. It's why I love my Motorola radios and my other commercial gear.

You have at most: Volume, squelch, channel selector and a PTT. You have a menu but that's usually for setting power level (and depending on the feature level of the radio, you have that on a button too).

The cheap chinese radios are a step in between. They have the simplicity of the commercial radios with the frequency agility of the ham crap.

 

[fullmetaljesus]

Here's a nice online seminar/class/presentation on storm spotting. I found it very informative.

2009 webshow

I have a Yaesu handy talkie that I take mobile with me for emergencies, but I hate it. Way too many features crammed into a tiny radio with limited buttons. Each button has 4 functions depending on how long you hold it or if alt or F are pressed first. And then an additional 52 menu options.

I have already gone through the Noaa storm spotter thingy, but that was a few years ago.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

I passed written to general, but muffed the 13WPM, so I'm just a tech, but not quite the lowliest; I'm a grandfathered old tech. Yay me! I'd only studied the code for a month, though.

 

[jedi]

I passed written to general, but muffed the 13WPM, so I'm just a tech, but not quite the lowliest; I'm a grandfathered old tech. Yay me! I'd only studied the code for a month, though.

Do you know that the morse code requirement is no more. So if you pass the written portion you can upgrade.

-Jedi

 

[Redskinsfan]

I agree!

Here's a nice online seminar/class/presentation on storm spotting. I found it very informative.

2009 webshow

I have a Yaesu handy talkie that I take mobile with me for emergencies, but I hate it. Way too many features crammed into a tiny radio with limited buttons. Each button has 4 functions depending on how long you hold it or if alt or F are pressed first. And then an additional 52 menu options.

I hate the over complicated radios. The functions are at least 90% unused. If you need a book or a big cheat sheet to operate it, it is way too complicated.

I am entirely a CW, QRP, HF op. I have an extra class that I got 37 years ago. My wife is licensed and we will talk on 2M FM on very rare occassions.

It is nice to make the acquatance of the other INGO hams.

Terry

 

[NavyVet]

Had a FCC First Class RadioTelephone (with Broadcast and Radar Endorsement) 30 years ago... Recently decided to get my ham license. (Technician)

Studying for the General, should have that in a month or two. Currently messing around on 2m and 440mhz. Gathering hardware to do more of the global stuff.

BTW: There is a ham radio group already setup on INGO. It is in the Groups or Communities area (don't remember what it is called).