Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Posted on 02/13/2021 10:07:06 AM PST by Varmint Al
That’s really cool! I had no idea. Might have to give it a go!
If you once understood General radio telephone operations then getting a ham license would be fairly easy.
How long before the commies make you take it down, or take it down for you?
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
Bump for later
Yeah, I’ve been interested in FT8 but haven’t pursued it yet,
True, I’ve just not been interested. Reading and quilting are my hobbies, hand surgery put a end to the quilting.
He stopped going to the Ham club, when night vision became a issue. He’s 80 now. Teaching will stop soon, it’s hard to tell them no, as he is a retired Math Major, Jr, College Prof. Makes taking the math part of Extra super easy.
Few will be getting out fixing to get the nasty weather, Memphis is not geared to handle. We don’t get it often. Ice storms, tornadoes, snow 1 inch shuts things down.
There was a time less than 30 years ago that dialup BBS was “the internet.”
While I have a General class amateur radio license and a fair amount of equipment, I decided to buy a Garmin Explorer+, which has the ability to send and receive Short Message Service (SMS) texts and emails via the Iridium satellite constellation.
Iridium is a “switching in the sky” network, so your message will travel all around the world (sideways from sat to sat) until it can find an open earth link to the internet or cell net.
The chargeable hand-held device costs about $400 and the subscription for 10 messages per month is about $144 per year. Extra text messages are $0.50 each. It also can send messages from one Explorer+ to another without entering the internet or cell net.
All Iridium satellites are in polar orbit and, if we have an EMP nuke blast over the USA, the satellites over the USA at the time will be fried, but there is a fresh set coming over a few minutes later.
Iridium went bankrupt years ago and our government stepped in and helped them get back on their feet. It must be a good system that serves a critical role.
Me, neither. It’s fairly new but seems to have promise. It takes two on each end to do anything, so the old technology is better in that regard.
When I was stationed at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, which actually more of the post is in Tennessee than Kentucky, but the post HQ and post office are on the KY side, so it is Ft Campbell, KY. But, anyway, I lived on the Tennessee side, just outside Clarksville, TN, and my landlord lived in the main house up in front of me, where he had a grocery store and laundry mat. He was a massive ham radio operator. He had a huge ham set up. He had a bedroom completely full of equipment. He was able to talk to people around the world. He spoke regularly with a guy in Australia. He talked to people in Europe. He spoke of course to folks all around the nation. He stayed up nearly all night talking to people on the ham radio. Guy had been at it for decades, back as far as he could remember, he was a hammer.
Ham bump
dont think so. they use them as well
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