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Siliconjunkie
10-25-2003, 9:51 AM
As part of my ongoing quest for true geekdom I went this morning to take my technician class amateur radio license, and actually passed. Not too shabby for something I didn't start studying for until Thursday evening.

For those of you that may be interested, you can do alot of really cool things with radio. It's not just sitting there beating out morse code. You can send data over packet radio amongst a host of other cool things.

Check it out: http://www.arrl.org
GohanSSJ
10-25-2003, 10:22 AM
To geekie for me. :p

Good job though. :)
n7vxj
10-25-2003, 10:31 AM
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Well if Ham Radio is a part of Geekdom, I guess I'm definitely a geek!!! lol '73' Dan / N7VXJ :D

Edit: Once you get your ticket, you should download, and try out Echolink!!!
Siliconjunkie
10-25-2003, 10:59 AM
I have heard about echolink. I will check it out, K5WH lives near me and is a station for it. So I can start using that right away.
NDC
10-25-2003, 11:55 AM
Congrats!:chug:
Mntsnow
10-25-2003, 2:29 PM
Congrats SJ! Well Done

<Mntsnow slowly sneaks off as he has yet to go take his test>
ThRoNkA
10-25-2003, 3:53 PM
Hey... I thought about using it when my cell phone minutes go away. you can use telephone links right?
robin801
10-25-2003, 6:19 PM
my dad is a license ham operator!

he uses W3BT.

there is a site that has some of the pictures from their rendevous that they have every year.

it is usually the first weekend in June.

the group of them and their families have a get together.

on friday they check out each other's equipment and find out who bought what and how they are using it.

on saturday they have a barbecue for the ham operator and their families.

on sunday they get together for breakfast.

i'll post the site as soon as he gets home.
n7vxj
10-25-2003, 6:41 PM
SJ, you can check out echolink here: www.echolink.org
Centurion
10-27-2003, 5:13 AM
VE9 BGY

got it when I was in grade 8 - almost 30 years ago now!

[man thats a long time]
a Bill
10-27-2003, 11:39 AM
A licensed ham operator? OK. Uh, I'm a licensed motor vehicle operator. Now if I encounter you driving your pig through an intersection, who has the right of way? :D
Centurion
10-27-2003, 1:09 PM
THe pig of course!

HAhahahahah


C :)
robin801
10-27-2003, 6:29 PM
here is the link i was telling you about plus another one that my dad gave me to give you.

http://www.qrz.com/cgi-bin/webcall

http://7248.org/

the second one is the one about the get together.

look under rendezvous XII 2004 information.
Siliconjunkie
10-29-2003, 6:08 PM
Thanks for the Links Robin, unfortunately its about 1000 miles from me.

qrz is a good site, been poking around on it for a while.

I got my callsign today, kd5zlu which isnt too bad. Borrowed a handheld from a co-worker so I am on the air at least on VHF and UHF.

I am going to give EchoLink a go tonight.