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National Silent Key Archive Lives On The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.

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Or

www.qrz.com
(Upper left, under the QRZ logo. Change search parameters as needed.)

arrl.org is a good resource, esp in the US. They also have a list of US clubs which can be really helpful for new hams.

W4EEY on YouTube has great study courses using the ARRL study manuals (make sure you are watching the latest v., intro vid will tell you). Many other options as well

Good luck!

Congratulations!

‘My First Morse Key’ #HamRadio

“Ham radio was basically Twitter with microphones.”
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“Was”?

Just getting started.

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Welcome!

Correct. You need a license to transmit on the amateur radio frequencies. Have fun!

Good luck!

I don’t care how you season it, ham radios definitely taste more like radio than they do ham

Avoid the smoked radio though. Nasty.

I think I'd like to get into shortwave radio, ham radio or whatever but it seems so expensive to get the equipment and basically impossible to set up in an apartment setting, maaaaybe there's a flexible antenna that I could run atop the crown molding? but it just seems so expensive

Expensive is relative, but there are now more budget friendly gear out there. YouTube has many hits on “ham radio on a budget”.

If you want to listen search for KiwiSDR or webSDR.

arrl.org is a good resource, esp in the US. They have a list of US clubs which can be really helpful for new hams.

Similar struggle here. At the moment, me and the letter “G” are having a tussle. I consistently hear “P”.

I set the LICW software between 25 and 35 as otherwise I start counting dits and dahs. This is single characters.

Words and numbers…that’s a different kettle of fish.

Learn #CW at 25 wpm (at least), not 5.

Working on a simple app for seeing #SOTA spots map at a glance while activating...
Now thinking in the best way to show them filtered at weekends, by now only mode filters.
More info when "polished"
#hamradio

Congrats!

This might help:

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Congrats!

That’s the “run with it” part.

Just think of it as bling and run with it.

18 gauge speaker wire should not be a problem. If I routinely need a lot of heat over a large area, then I might worry. Don’t know about the Ryobi.

FWIW, I dithered long and hard over the Pine64 vs a soldering station. It was the portability and reviews that finally won me over.

Good luck!

Electronics folks: Is a usb-C soldering iron (pine64) workable? I can’t decide between that and a Harbor Freight starter kit to start building amateur radio antennas (so not super detail work).

Love my Pine64. The tip it comes with is not so great, so I got the fine point kit. I’ve used it to build a few kits and my coax cables. Only antennas I’ve built have been light wire, so YMMV depending on the tasks you are putting it through.

<deep breath>

Restarting Long Island #CW Club tonight.

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