Okay, I'm going to take some advice I was given this morning and jump in with
both feet. LOTS of stupid questions.
- Do I need to connect to a repeater to use my hand held?
- If so, how do I even do that? I know there are repeaters out there. How do
you find them?
- I would love to learn CW, but don't know where to start with that, either.
- When listening to experienced operators, what are they talking about? What do
you discuss on HAM radio? Don't we need to keep our conversations limited to
talking about HAM radio, or remarks of a personal nature? Or did I take that
too literally?
-Kristan
KI5VVT
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On Tuesday, March 19th, 2024 at 10:21 AM, Chris Medlin via BVARC
<bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote:
> I will also add…
> Http://websdr.org
> No radio required to listen.
> Anytime you are in a place where you have some downtime but not at home or
> not where you can turn on an HF radio. Maybe there is torrential
> thunderstorms in your area and your equipment is all disconnected but you
> want to hear some ham radio goodness, you can go to that website and access a
> radio in any part of the world. And based on propagation, you can hear all
> sorts of interesting QSOs. Pick a site that has the bands you want to listen
> on.
> When you select a site, enter your callsign into the box where it asks. Its
> just for the station owner. You can put anything in there but callsign is
> preferred if you have one. Just so the owner knows who is using the site.
> Then pick the band you want that is offered on that site. Be sure to select
> LSB (lower side band) for 40m (7MHz), 80m (3.5MHz), or 160m (1.8MHz) or USB
> (upper side band) for 20m (14MHz), 17m (18MHz), 15m (21MHz), 12m (24MHz), or
> 10m (28MHz).
> If you find some CW (morse code) you want to listen to, you can change the
> mode to CW to narrow the bandwidth to make the signal much clearer. And dont
> be discouraged if you dont know the code. You can find slow people on all the
> bands if you are interested in learning.
> And then find the button to play the audio. Its going to vary based on what
> browser you are using. It will either be an obvious button to click or there
> might be something about html audio. It will be somewhere above the radio
> display interface.
>
> This will expand your listening ability any time you are near a computer (or
> tablet). Sometimes I go to a coffee shop to get some work done and I’ll find
> a websdr site and I’ll put on earphones and use a good ragchewing qso as
> background noise while I work.
>
> Hope this helps to give you some more options for listening to whats out
> there.
> Listening to good operators is an excellent way to learn how to be an
> excellent operator.
>
> 73 and welcome to the hobby.
> Chris AC5CM
> Ex-KB5UMS
>
> Typos brought to you by iPhone
>
>> On Mar 19, 2024, at 09:59, Dan Donalson via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I am in exactly the same situation. We went to the POTA at Brazos Bend state
>> park and learned a bit. I'll try to make it to the 4/20 event as well. I
>> need to find an Elmer with a high tolerance for frustration to tutor
>> me[Emoji]
>>
>> Dan Donalson
>> KI5YXK
>>
>> On Tuesday, March 19, 2024 at 08:13:15 AM CDT, gshockxcc via BVARC
>> <bvarc@bvarc.org> wrote:
>>
>> First, let me preface my request for help by saying that I am a Mechanical
>> Engineer and I still have no idea what is going on. I collect lots of data
>> on rotating and fixed equipment, and I understand Control systems just
>> enough to be dangerous.
>>
>> That said, I have had my General license for almost a year, and I still have
>> no idea how to operate a ham radio, how to communicate with anyone or find
>> channels to communicate on. I freely admit that the amount of time that I
>> spend trying to learn is minimal, because of other priorities at the moment.
>> I don’t have any friends who are into ham, and I am rarely able to make
>> BVARC functions like the POTA.
>>
>> How in the world do you get started if you don’t know where to begin? Sorry,
>> I am just lost.
>>
>> -Kristan
>>
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