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Re: Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?

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Post by fidotron »

Similar.

Experience of Canadian ham scene though is it's almost all just buying/selling equipment, to the point some channels were occupied by automated announcements of what people were buying and selling. APRS is fairly well used though, and by far the best way to find what is in the local area.

For better or worse the more dynamic and technically interesting stuff now seems to be with SDR and Meshtastic/Meshcore. Even the people with envy inspiring antenna arrays are mainly on the mesh stuff.

Re: Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?

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Post by jtickle »

I don't have you in my log! Southeast US here. What aspects of ham radio are you into? Any HF nets you frequent? To be honest, life keeps me away from radio most of the time so there is nothing "regular" that I participate in outside the two Field Days, but if things ever slow down I will have the license and the equipment for it. I got in due to a general interest in technology but I like contesting, the occasional net, and someday I would like to practice CW (have "learned it" twice now but have been unable to dedicate the time to practice). I like digital modes and am not anti-FT8 but I wish there was more use of the "conversational" modes like RTTY or others in fldigi.

Re: Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?

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Post by lb1lf »

LB1LF here - much to my dismay, I currently have no antennas at home, but I take part in the IARU Region 1 Field Day every year - some friends and I, alumni from the Norwegian University of Technology and Science in Trondheim, Norway created a ham radio club - LA1AFP - for the express purpose of having an excuse to meet up annually and have a good time.

I have mostly worked HF phone, but in latter years I've (finally!) become reasonably proficient in CW, too.

I enjoy the technical aspects of the hobby, being a radio frequency engineer - but also enjoy chatting to others, particularly to improve my language skills - Portuguese and Brazilian hams are an absolute delight and quite patient as I try to make myself understood in Portuguese!

Oh, and chasing the occasional award - but I am not very good at sending in the paperwork, so I guess I had better do that soon and get some paperwork for my shack. I have a particular soft spot for the RSGB IOTA program, as I live on one - EU-079 - myself.

I hope to be QRV from home again before long, though - I live on a farm, have lots of room, and I have a small mast and an almost finished wire beam in the barn, so with any luck I'll be able to put it all together and have a working station again sometime this spring!

Re: Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

giantg2 wrote: post #6

I do. I'm not sure I like exposing my home address by providing my callsign with my HN account (something to think about for other posters).

That's why I use a PO Box — still not sharing callsign though =P

Re: Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

zikduruqe wrote: post #10
mitchbob wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ditto for me.

I hold an Extra Class license... the old 20 wpm kind. The cool thing is, I got my extra back when I was 19 years old and it set me up for a great tech career since I understood RF. Not going to dox myself here putting my callsign in a post.

AD0NIS — that you?
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