Search results

Did you checkmark the box for a new call sign to reflect your license class change. A General will get you a little better call sign.. Now hit the books and work on your Amateur Extra.......:wink:

The Antron99 is a 1/2 over 1/4 wave antenna - for some reason it finds harmonics of 11 on 15 and 17 if you get it up high enough and away from everything else. 17 meters sometimes goes long, is a lot like 20, but will still be open sometimes when 10 or 15 is not. 20 is mostly nets and...

It saddens my heart Captain Kilowatt that you did not like or appreciate my post. Being a HAM and a CB'r yourself, I think you could appreciate the direction I was going in and I am sorry that you didn't get it. Thinking back to my CB radio days, I would have to wonder how many contacts I could...

Amateur Radio involves Science, Algebra, Calculus, Trigonometry, Geography, the use of languages including English, some knowledge is required about the construction of efficient antenna's, phase relationships, VSWR, how a transmitter works, harmonic's, more complex things like how to do a field...

When I passed my Technician Class License Exam, It took 6 weeks before my call sign appeared in The License URL web site. By that time, I had already passed the General and was attempting to take my Amateur Extra. It shouldn't take you more then 2 weeks from the time you passed your...

My opinion of the Kenwood TS 2000 is that it is a overglorified CB radio. A whole lot to go wrong in one little box. The people that buys it is enamored by the fact that you can work most all bands with one box. When it breaks - you end up loosing everything - at least until it comes back...

You can find the same harmful interference on the amateur radio as you found on the CB radio, you just have to look a little harder. It is unfortunate that they do not include a psychological test along with a multiple guess test to get your license, there would be far less people getting their...

90% of amateur radio involves listening. If you listen long enough, sooner or later you will decide who is hams and who is not. Once you decide who you wish to talk to, you can establish a buddy group. People that you choose to talk to on a daily basis. 90% of everything that you do with...

Canada and some other countries might have privileges where we do not. You may have heard a out of country station operating. VE's and others in Canada also has the opportunity to operate using the W1AW call sign I think.. It's been a while since I read the rules...

My rule book is very old, but I thought it said something about the operator ID with their own call at least once every 15 minutes - if not every 10. If you got their real call sign, turn them in to the O&O

Most people does it because they want to operate on 11 meters. The blocking resistor does one thing, it keeps you off the frequencies that are not permitted in amateur radio. What I like about it with some of the newer radios is that the radio will make a click noise when you go from the...