73s, AF7RU.
Glad you’re active with kids, teaching them. It seemed like a lost art. But with prepper interest, ham radio is important for disasters and off-the-grid.
QTH Dayton, Wyoming
active on the Cowboy Net (cute, huh?)
Joined Cloud Peak Radio Club and Big Horn Basin on the other side of the Big Horn Mountains.
I’m an XYL, and writing a book now about female hams - “I did that to my wife, too.”
I’ve got four female hams in my unit. One adult General.
Love the Cowboy Net thing.
I just got into Software Defined Radio, and introduced it for the first time in class last week.
They applauded!!
(Why?)
SDR runs on a computer, though it is hooked up to an antenna. If you have an antenna switch, you can use it to look at various band as a waterfall display. You can ‘see’ when someone is transmitting. You click on the little white squiggly line and you can fine tune it to hear and talk on that conversation.
Lots of freeware out there for it. Now they want to use the base stations we have, where as before they didn’t. Tuning to one frequency and CQ’ing to the ether is pretty old school.
Let me know when the book is out. You can’t be that bad. I had to look up ‘XYL’.