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So I finally got my HAM license

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September 27, 2025, 08:56 PM
nhtagmember
So I finally got my HAM license
I have most of Jim Allens radio gear including his keys. He was into low power code. One of these days I will be good enough to put them to good use.
September 28, 2025, 01:10 AM
Rey HRH
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Originally posted by Appliance Brad:
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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
I got my Technician license but I haven't done anything since I got it.


You can buy a radio so cheap now that if nothing else the bar is low to come play

Friend showed me how to use Chirp and programming is easy peasy


It’s not for lack of radios. I have four 10-watt radios new in box I bought July 2024 and 1 used radio someone gave me.

But, at least, your post is a tickler to remind me.


"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
September 28, 2025, 05:10 PM
Appliance Brad
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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
It’s not for lack of radios. I have four 10-watt radios new in box I bought July 2024 and 1 used radio someone gave me.

But, at least, your post is a tickler to remind me.


Chirp makes programming pretty easy. There are other options but it's pretty easy and widely used. If you don't have a programing cable, they are cheap on Fleabay.


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September 28, 2025, 05:11 PM
Appliance Brad
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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
I have most of Jim Allens radio gear including his keys. He was into low power code. One of these days I will be good enough to put them to good use.


That makes me happy. I forgot that he was a real old time devotee.


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September 30, 2025, 07:55 AM
shovelhead
I wasn’t aware of these classes. Just signed up for a notification of the next one in Ann Arbor.

Thank you Brad.


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