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.
Interesting stuff.
Going to a ham meeting tomorrow night. (Attendance went up when they added food - meeting in a restaurant.)
Please feel free to ping me and keep me post on ham stuff. (Thought I’m a bad ham. My OM was an antenna engineer - EE. So he’s really into it.)