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wildbill23c

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Ooohh, great site, thank you. Can't figure out why my searches never turned up this particular site.
i found it my accident and it look me along time to find it after i lost the link.
great site i love the way thy have it layout.
 

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You can go to hamtest on line ( do a search) or go to the ARRL.com web site, there you will find everything you can use. Fishman67 KD8UEA
 

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I'm gonna use both, and hopefully figure out the technical stuff so I can get my license.
 

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<----- 1984 to current
WD8NIA 1977 to 1984
 

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Got my technician class in 2010, call sign KF7UKA.

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W8SSE. Kenwood TM 710 with AVMAP for APRS.
 

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wa0rox extra class. first liscensed in the 60's. th731 and dx70.
 

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AE5HL here, have a CB installed in my truck (you have a hell of a time getting weather/road information via 2 meters on the road). I think 6 meters might be a little difficult, but with sunspot conditions improving you might work some serious DX. Why not finish the rest of the exams and go HF? Work QRP exclusively...
The vast majority of 2m Mobile transceivers can easily tune to receive NOAA weather radio (all ten NOAA channels are programmed into each of my amateur transceivers)

Cell phone coverage varies depending on weather and location.
I don't go farther than my mailbox without two cell phones, one CDMA serviced by Verizon the other a GSM on AT&T...

CB is short range and noisy, but is there any better way to tell the trucker in front of you to stay in the lane he's in where the pavement is smooth if he has no problem with you overtaking on the other side.. or to tell him his load is about to fall off...

I routinely talk to people much further away with 2m amateur radios than
many people would believe, and stories about "Skip" on CB is mostly LIES anyway....

As an amateur operator I'm mostly 10m operator, so I know how 11m works
 

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Is that clean wattage or do you bleed over radio/tv? Thats why some hams don't like cbers. It's kinda like owning a 100k honda civic and being pissed off everytime you hear sometime talk about how fast their civic is with a cai and muffler. :icon_rofl:

Btw, wattage isn't everything. Hams can talk worldwide with less than 1 watt and a good antenna.
HAMS Hate freebanders because we get blamed for their splattery interfering signals.

I've gotten shit from neighbors over Television interference when my radio was not even turned on, let alone transmitting

The problem is always some idiot with an amplifier they bought out of the back of a van at a truck stop when they were done getting a BJ (And the clap)from some Lot Lizard...
 

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i always love the HAM laws, not sure how it is south of 49*, but up here, there is 3 levels of amateur radio licenses, basic, basic with honors (what I have) and advanced. basic with honors allows you to do pretty much anything you want, with a commercially made radio (you can make your own antenna) you cannot operate a repeater, and cannot transmit at more than... 200? watts, might be 300... Basic is the same, except without the HF band (canada doesn't want idiots embarrassing the country by transmitting shit overseas) I have a yaesu 2900 which transmits up to 75w, and with it, I can reach people about 300km away, with a dual band uhf/vhf antenna on my truck. With a good yagi/yagi-uda I could probably reach the other side of the country WITHOUT skip, if conditions permitted
 

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I am an Amateur Extra, the top US license class, thoughI am not one of the new No-Code Extras I am a "Slow Code" extra.

I was a tech-plus (5WPM code) and upgraded through General to Extra when the rules changes allowed it.

I have never, even once Keyed my MIC to call CQ on 20Meters with all the assholes there.

I am and always have been a 2m & 10m operator, but I've played on 6m as well.
 

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I tuned a mag mount CB antenna for 146mhz, tied it into my cheap Chinese HT, can hit the repeater downtown and get about 20 miles on a good day w/ 5 watts...do alot of 146.52 simplex buzzing around here in H-Town.

Good lot of ham'ers here in Houston

I'm a Technician class, would like to get my General

KF5CIF
 

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20 miles WITH the repeater? that's absolutely horrendous!

I was hitting a repeater that was roughly 70 miles away from me, and my buddy was receiving the signal, when he was roughly 100 miles away from it, both on 5w, we were coming in at about s8 IIRC
 

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