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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Ham radio! It's relaxing. My favorite activity is to take my portable gear to parks and operate Parks on the Air.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

My brother used to be really big into his ham radio. It got smashed in his move and he never bought another one =\

[–] Variden3301 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am waiting for my exam. After that I will have my own call sign. Ham radio is cool

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you decide on a call sign?

[–] Variden3301 5 points 1 year ago

It is assigned to me I cannot choose call sign unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you think about the baofeng radios with ham? Pretty good to start out with?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are fine for starting out with, but you'll probably want to upgrade soon. There are better radios for around $75 if you can afford it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What would you recommend? Is there a good mega thread here?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Most activity, I've seen here: [email protected] but there's a lemmy bug that's not showing a bunch of posts. That should be resolved soon.

These are good cheaper radios (The price has gone up a bit)

https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-016123

https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-015573

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There's also [email protected] which is reasonably active.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ima be honest with ya, I believe those cheaper yaesus are actually practically baofengs component wise. But, they are still a bit better due to some higher quality components and wayyyy better QC. Just wanted to throw this out there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re pretty much baofengs with much better filtering, so you don’t get front end overloading which can be frustrating.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I had no idea about Parks on the Air. Thanks! I'll be checking out.

[–] LunchEnjoyer 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just getting into Ham radio and SDR myself as of late, so cool and so fun to tweak around with. Got any recommendations for guides or articles to read and learn from? I'm brand new just got a SDR-RTL dongle πŸ“‘

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You should check out Ham Radio Crash Cpurse on YouTube. Lots of great info there.

[–] agitatedpotato 3 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah, came here to say this. 73 friend.

[–] LunchEnjoyer 1 points 1 year ago

Just getting into this myself! Got any recommendations for guids/videos/articles? I'd be happy to check anything out πŸ‘