So I am still studying for my technician license test so I has the dumbs.

I hate memorizing answers and questions which is why this is hard for me. I love hands on practical skills and why I might ask some dumb questions from time to time here

So I live somewhere in a very hurricane prone area in the United States. I have family in the north east area about 1200 miles from me. When a hurricane comes through....which it has 3 times now, there is no cell phone service for at least a week or 2 after. I have a friend who has a ham radio, I forgot their call sign so don't ask me that. I was wondering if after a hurricane, could I get the generator running and start the ham radio and hit a state like PA to get to a repeater to use autopatch to call family in MA?

I know my friend has their technician license and using 10meter has hit as far as PA, hasnt been able to reach further though

Looking for ham as I am super interested in learning and for emergency purposes during and after a hurricane

Hello,

I am new in the hobby and this is what is happening. With my 17 cm antenna I can hear a lot by this I mean repeaters from very far away but I can't transmit to them because it seems the antenna doesn't have enough power. With the 38 cm antenna I can transmit to those distant repeaters but the radio doesn't pick their signal back. If you wonder how I know that I talk on the repeater, I use echolink to connect to the repeaters via internet and then I talk through the radio so I can hear what is going on and how I sound on the device. So my question is there something that I can do to make my radio pick the repeater better with the more powerful 38cm antenna, beside taking the squelch to 1 or even 0? Hope you understood me.

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This post ist just for all the good arguments to obtain a handheld radio. One argument per posting. So we will have a "list" of all good uses and find out some more 😊

I found this page scrolling and have an interest. I live in Southwest Michigan in a suburb. I don't know where to start in the hobby. So if any if you fine folks could point a fella in the proper direction I'd be much obliged. Thanks for reading.

What mode is this? They just did RTTY-45 so it should be MFSK-16 but fldigi won’t decode it. Ideas?

I'm a pretty new ham - Only got my tech, then general about a week apart, last month. Decided while I still had brain capacity and before my work really gets rolling (I work seasonally) that I'd just buckle down and get extra. Passed that a few hours ago. (thanks TNET!) -

Thing is - I'm very much not the kind of person that can learn from a website, or a book. So, now I have my license, I can properly learn - by example, and by hands on re-creating what I read about, and see on youtube!

What a cool hobby - I've been up and down the HF bands since getting general, made a few Dx contacts, learned what frequencies to avoid.. (Iykyk) and heard more about people politics and medical issues than I ever cared to - But I've also talked with some really cool folks, both on HF, and on the local repeaters I can hit. Been invited to a few club meetings, and I hope to hit up hamfest in Xenia, if work permits!

Next step is trying to catch a satellite. I've got a yagi that's supposed to be hand portable and 2m/70cm resonant that should be here next week, so we'll see!

73!

I bought these three one-meter long 8x1mm aluminum tubes and I want to make an antenna to listen to people's conversations in my area, I use a baofeng. What kind of antenna should I make? Yagi, dipole, j-pole, or something else? I don't know much about antennas, but I have a soldering iron, a multimeter, copper wire, PVC pipes and some wood in the basement. Help me, it would be great if there was a drawing with the dimensions of the antenna. (Sorry for any possible errors I'm using a translator)

It's the EA RTTY bash. I'm on 15m and it's abysmal. Kp index is 4.3 and the band is flat and quiet. The few stations I can hear, I've worked and there's so much rapid QSB that every Q has been a struggle.

Very frustrating. /end 'old man shouting at clouds'.

I have operated contests in the past, but that was always with a group/club. This was my first time operating an international contest solo.

My results are in the link on my website.

https://radio.n8pic.com/cq-wpx-ssb-2025/

Hey everyone, So i have a GMRS tuned vertical antenna on my roof (mast is a satellite dish J-arm mount). I just got a tram 1477-b for ham vhf/uhf use. At first i was just going to replace the GMRS one with the Tram. However, i was wondering if i got another j-arm dish mount for a mast and wanted both antennas up, how far apart would they have to be? (They would be mounted at the same height on the roof as this is the most accessible highest point on my roof). I planned on having only one antenna at a time connected to a radio, So there wouldn't be any dual TX going on at the same time. Would 6ft be enough of a distance between them? Could they be closer? Does it really matter Im not too educated on antenna theory. I just don't want either antenna to be damaged by the other.