On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 15:28 -0400, Joseph Apuzzo wrote: > I rather pay a monthly fee/dues
There have always been restrictions on financial transactions with respect to amateur radio, so folks tend to be very very careful about pay-to-play operation. You'd probably become a member of such an organization but, from what little I know, they're mightily uninterested in drive-by members. Sort of like the local club's efforts to get folks interested in repeater maintenance: very few members have seen the view from atop Mt Beacon, but plenty of folks use the repeaters. > Now ... we have the Internet. The same rules apply to VOIP / remote station operation as to any other station, so it's not a simple as it seems: http://www.arrl.org/voip-faq > install a tower at my house You really don't need much in the way of a radio and an antenna: if you've got an attic and some wire (and maybe an antenna tuner), you're on the air. In a pinch, you don't even need the attic. I'm more interested in electronics tinkering than talking with Tierra del Fuego, but it's not all that tough, even in a solar minimum, to bounce HF off the ionosphere! -- Ed http://softsolder.com _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium May 4 - Inkscape Jun 1 - Zimbra Jul 6 - Jul 2011
