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Any Hams on PO?

Unread postby roccman » Tue 19 Feb 2008, 22:01:11

My call is "in the mail" will post later...

Just curious.
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Re: Any Hams on PO?

Unread postby jasonraymondson » Tue 19 Feb 2008, 22:07:52

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'M')y call is "in the mail" will post later...

Just curious.



My call is "Here porky porky" "Get in my belly"


You are talking about pork, right?
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Re: Any Hams on PO?

Unread postby roccman » Tue 19 Feb 2008, 22:11:06

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'M')y call is "in the mail" will post later...

Just curious.



My call is "Here porky porky" "Get in my belly"


You are talking about pork, right?


Nice!

and

No
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Re: Any Hams on PO?

Unread postby lawnchair » Tue 19 Feb 2008, 22:23:49

Have my Extra. Girlfriend (fiancee, whatever) has a Tech. Mine was earned when the morse code was 5wpm, not 20, but still required. Turns out code comes in handy in the damnedist times, so I recommend people give it a try someday. Don't have much in the way of HF equipment, but will be looking to pick some up at a hamfest or two this spring. I'm not permanently located, so I really don't want to set up too elaborate of antennas. I am involved in my local club/repeater, SkyWarn, and APRS. It's not high on my list of hobbies, but it's one people notice (car with extra antennas and a callsign license plate).

The old coots (and they are usually *real damn old*) at a ham club often are incredible guys to get to know.

Congrats, and hope you find something interesting in it.
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Re: Any Hams on PO?

Unread postby smallpoxgirl » Tue 19 Feb 2008, 22:29:46

I passed technician a couple of months ago. Want to upgrade to general as soon as I can find a workable testing session time.
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Re: Any Hams on PO?

Unread postby jasonraymondson » Tue 19 Feb 2008, 22:31:09

What the heck does this all have to do with Canadian bacon?
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Re: Any Hams on PO?

Unread postby BigTex » Tue 19 Feb 2008, 23:20:04

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'W')hat the heck does this all have to do with Canadian bacon?


He's not talking about Canadian bacon.

He's talking about gratuitous attention seekers.
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Re: Any Hams on PO?

Unread postby roccman » Tue 19 Feb 2008, 23:23:51

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lawnchair', 'H')ave my Extra. Girlfriend (fiancee, whatever) has a Tech.



Congrats, and hope you find something interesting in it.


Nice and thanks!

Ang takes her tech next week.

Then when the cells go down we can simplex!!!
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Re: Any Hams on PO?

Unread postby BigTex » Tue 19 Feb 2008, 23:38:54

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lawnchair', 'H')ave my Extra. Girlfriend (fiancee, whatever) has a Tech.



Congrats, and hope you find something interesting in it.


Nice and thanks!

Ang takes her tech next week.

Then when the cells go down we can simplex!!!


I've wondered about the "backup communications" thing. Doesn't ham communication depend upon repeaters that are on the highest points such as skyscrapers? If the cells go down because the bad guys knock a building down, wouldn't that take out the ham repeater as well?

I know almost nothing about this topic, so sorry if that's a dumb question.
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Re: Any Hams on PO?

Unread postby kadoomsoon » Tue 19 Feb 2008, 23:41:34

No, you can use them point to point also, pretty privat on low power.

Also I have a repeater in my car, and on the house roof. you can put them anywhere, like on a mountain in a hikeing weeked. link on linkoff sub tone encoded lots of ways.


I am, I am, I like microwave...also.. that is really really private, and direct line of site.
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Re: Any Hams on PO?

Unread postby roccman » Tue 19 Feb 2008, 23:53:36

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kadoomsoon', 'N')o, you can use them point to point also, pretty privat on low power.

Also I have a repeater in my car, and on the house roof. you can put them anywhere, like on a mountain in a hikeing weeked. link on linkoff sub tone encoded lots of ways.


I am, I am, I like microwave...also.. that is really really private, and direct line of site.


Most repeaters have battery back up with solar recharge.

Simplex mode is using the same frequency to transmit and receive.

Using a repeater gets you way more range.

If you work HF bands (global) you need an HF transceiver (rather than 2 meter transceiver (local)....
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Re: Any Hams on PO?

Unread postby I_Like_Plants » Tue 19 Feb 2008, 23:55:27

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', 'M')y call is "in the mail" will post later...

Just curious.


Someone asked me today what it takes to get a ham license, I said "Send in 3 box tops and write an essay on how much you like Tony The Tiger" lol.

At least getting the license means you'll learn how to set up a station, have some radios and batts etc around that's always good.

Me, I want to be a pirate! Look for me on 7.400 or something lol!
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Re: Any Hams on PO?

Unread postby roccman » Wed 20 Feb 2008, 00:05:33

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', '
')Someone asked me today what it takes to get a ham license, I said "Send in 3 box tops and write an essay on how much you like Tony The Tiger" lol.


lol :)

It was a pretty easy test...we are going to help the kids get theirs soon.
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Re: Any Hams on PO?

Unread postby SchroedingersCat » Wed 20 Feb 2008, 00:05:38

Got my general ticket back in '77. Also my 1st class commercial with radar endorsement. The LRP stuff was my favorite. Especially for field day.

Hams usually know more than just radios. I agree about the old timers comment. The stuff I've learned from some of these guys is amazing.
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Re: Any Hams on PO?

Unread postby lawnchair » Wed 20 Feb 2008, 00:33:57

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('roccman', '
')Most repeaters have battery back up with solar recharge.

Simplex mode is using the same frequency to transmit and receive.

Using a repeater gets you way more range.


Depends on a lot.

My main club repeater has 6 or 7 hours worth of battery life. It's on a standard comms (TV and radio) tower. One member of our club works for the tower company, so we can get access pretty easily.

A couple of us have solar cells that we can take to the site. We test this out from time to time. We don't leave them there. Not enough room in the secure fence, plus we don't want them out for our frequent hailstorms.

You can communicate person-to-person without a repeater. If I'm out away from my home and not listening to a certain repeater, I tune in simplex to a well-known frequency (146.52). Then, if I pass someone with a ham license plate or they pass me, we can chat that way.

Beyond that, there is HF (like shortwave radio). You can cover a lot of ground. Worldwide voice communications is possible at 100 watts or even less (the bands are pretty crowded, though). Morse code communication and various digital modes compress the energy in a narrower bit of spectrum, so are more concentrated. People get multi-hundred mile communications out of a piece of wire in a tree, a homemade radio in an Altoids tin, and a 9-volt battery or bicycle generator.

But, to counter, it does feel like a dying hobby most of the time. The internet and cellphones have taken a lot of the novelty out of it. But, there are things a near-anarchist ham group can do that industrialized communications can't. Hope it can survive.
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Re: Any Hams on PO?

Unread postby I_Like_Plants » Wed 20 Feb 2008, 00:40:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'W')hat the heck does this all have to do with Canadian bacon?


He's not talking about Canadian bacon.

He's talking about gratuitous attention seekers.


No, not even that. More like uber-nerds, fat, into anime, losers.

There's a ham living near us. He comes over once in a while and talks AT us. After a while we shut the door in his face and he goes away.

Ham used to be cool. It was one of the things you did if you were technically inclined. Cool guys like Joe Walsh, Barry Goldwater, etc did it.

But now it's just a magnet for fat, firesetting, nose-picking, "mopes".

I've got my VHF xmtr anyway, I'm proud that I got licensed back in 83, and I'll keep a radio or two that can talk, around. But I'm not involved with hamming now and I'm probably just going to get kicked off the air if I do, because I just don't give a shit any more. The coolest hams I know are on 3840. I want to be like them. I'll just get on the air and play trumpet, parody commercials, tell jokes, ID with a clothespin on my nose, and thoroughly rag on the 99% of hams who are sad fucks.

I really have more respect for the pirates these days.

If I'd been in NO for Katrina I'd have set up a pirate FM station (or AM or both) that all the people on the ground who had a working radio could hear, and Radio Katrina would have told them useful stuff like how to build sun shelters, where to stay away from thuggo cops, and played music and told jokes to lighten the mood and get people to relax so they could loosen up and start being constructive with each other.

Now hams have to register with Homeland suckurity to do public service work, the whole Ham Radio Service is being integrated into that. The virtue of ham radio in the past was that it was "in the wild" and new technology would come out of it.

Now it's just a bunch of sad prats who get a stiffy when they see flashing lights and hear sirens.
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Re: Any Hams on PO?

Unread postby Pops » Wed 20 Feb 2008, 00:58:10

It would be cool to have someone start a Alternate Communications thread over in PFTF and maybe do something in the Wiki. I remember there was one a ways back but it didn't go far and with new stuff and all...
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