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Try www.arrl.org. There many other amateur radio links on google. The local ham club here is the Baton Rouge Amateur Radio Club. They meet the 1st Tuesday of the month at Catholic High (I think). There are many modes of operation such as HF ( short wave) , vhf/uhf, satellite, moon bounce. Digital modes, analog nodes. Video and so on. John Hebert wrote: > Howdy, > > I know from reading past messages that there are some > ham enthusiasts here. > > I'd like to get started in short wave reception and > then later transmission, preferably by buying used > equipment on Ebay in order to keep my "exploration" > costs low. > > Does anybody have any advice on this? I don't have any > prior experience with shortwave equipment, but I like > the idea of receiving news and information from around > the world. I am considering purchasing one of the > small Grundig sw receivers so that I can carry it > around with me. I believe I've read that Grundig is a > good brand. Any advice? > Grundig makes good equipment. Icom , Kenwood, Tenntec, and Yaesu also make very fine equipment. Most of these offer receive only radios if that is what you want. Otherwise the trend today in ham gear is the transceiver (transmit and recieve). Demographics in the ham community are, the mean age of our group are over 60 years old. And what this means to you is there are ham radio estate sales almost all the time. Contacting the BR club will put you in touch with the estate sales and other used ham equipment. Used ham equipment can have a lot of value in it. And it's generally good stuff, lasts a long time. > > Finally, what are some good URLs for sw/ham radio > beginners? > > I recently bought a house and so I'm making long range > plans to geekify the place; wireless network, > antennae, audio equipment, X10, etc. :) With Ham radio the big geek item can be the antenna. Keep coaxial cabling in mind when wiring your house. 73 Bob - kb5dgi -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Leche System Administrator Louisiana State University - Southern Regional Climate Center 260 Howe-Russell Building Baton Rouge, La. 70803 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 225 578 5023 ---------------------------------------------------------------- --------------7C9F5AA742584FEA922343AC Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Try www.arrl.org. There many other amateur radio links on google. The local ham club here is the Baton Rouge Amateur Radio Club. They meet the 1st Tuesday of the month at Catholic High (I think). <br> <p>There are many modes of operation such as HF ( short wave) , vhf/uhf, satellite, moon bounce. Digital modes, analog nodes. Video and so on. <br> <p>John Hebert wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Howdy, <p>I know from reading past messages that there are some <br>ham enthusiasts here. <p>I'd like to get started in short wave reception and <br>then later transmission, preferably by buying used <br>equipment on Ebay in order to keep my "exploration" <br>costs low. <p>Does anybody have any advice on this? I don't have any <br>prior experience with shortwave equipment, but I like <br>the idea of receiving news and information from around <br>the world. I am considering purchasing one of the <br>small Grundig sw receivers so that I can carry it <br>around with me. I believe I've read that Grundig is a <br>good brand. Any advice? <br> </blockquote> <p><br>Grundig makes good equipment. Icom , Kenwood, Tenntec, and Yaesu also make very fine equipment. Most of these offer receive only radios if that is what you want. Otherwise the trend today in ham gear is the transceiver (transmit and recieve). Demographics in the ham community are, the mean age of our group are over 60 years old. And what this means to you is there are ham radio estate sales almost all the time. Contacting the BR club will put you in touch with the estate sales and other used ham equipment. Used ham equipment can have a lot of value in it. And it's generally good stuff, lasts a long time. <br> <br> <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <br>Finally, what are some good URLs for sw/ham radio <br>beginners? <p>I recently bought a house and so I'm making long range <br>plans to geekify the place; wireless network, <br>antennae, audio equipment, X10, etc. :)</blockquote> <p><br>With Ham radio the big geek item can be the antenna. Keep coaxial cabling in mind when wiring your house. <br> <p>73 <p>Bob - kb5dgi <br> <pre>-- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Leche System Administrator Louisiana State University - Southern Regional Climate Center 260 Howe-Russell Building Baton Rouge, La. 70803 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 225 578 5023 ----------------------------------------------------------------</pre> </html> --------------7C9F5AA742584FEA922343AC--
