Totally agree with this. I too am just getting back into the hobby from almost 15 years ago. Once again I just recently pulled out my radio shack trc 465 and bought a simple magnet antenna and installed it in the car. Haven't made any dx contacts yet but its been nice to hear the radio conditions and learning the ropes all over again.
Hoping the landlord allows me to put up an antenna. Totally wanna see what my cobra 2000 can do running barefoot from a base antenna. Best I ever had before and this is going back when I was in highschool was my trc 465 running off a power supply on an antron. And that was just as fun.
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I had been off the air for a while too and now that I am back I thought all the loonies had been released and given radio's on their way out the door.
It is good to hear the popularity of the hobby is up and that the DX conditions are peaking but I am finding my old romping grounds 35-40 USB are no longer as civil as they once were. It sounds more like channel 11 everyday and its clone station 6 that didn't exist back then. Better conversations do exist above 40 and on the forums but above 40 there is another new language to learn. I do miss the quality local conversation we used to have in my area back when.