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>>866326 (OP)

No because the people into HAM are faggots that revel in reporting people to the police/FCC for any reason at all so they can protect their little club of HAM faggots.

>>866329

so people will throw the rule book at you for little mistakes and then have the FCC fine you for the shit?

>>866335

That's the gist of it, yeah.

>>866326 (OP)

Ham radio is radio for the sake of radio. If this doesn't sound interesting, don't bother. You're going to get a lot people replying to your thread who have no idea what the point of ham radio is. There are hundreds of different sub-hobbies. Not everybody is like the mongs on HF phone and 2 meter FM.

>>866329

>spells ham as HAM

nice bait

>thinks the FCC has any teeth for minor enforcement

retard and possible CBer detected

>>866358

>HAM

ham is not an acronym or initialism

>isn't useful day-to-day

for you probably

>>866358

>How do they even know for sure who was the guy breaking the rules?

Because other HAM (stay triggered >>866364) fags report the rule breakers to them.

The FCC has no interest in anybody who isn't a major offender like Karol or Captain Dave, or some "big nig" running 30kW on 11 meters. The days of cards in the mail from Official Observers are all but completely gone. QRMers would have angry local operators showing up at their door long before the FCC even thinks about sending out a DF vehicle.

>>866369

Stay retarded.

>>866329

>reporting people to the police/FCC

no one gets reported for shit you are probably one of those echo mic CB faggots that gets mad when people call them out on spamming the airwaves

Q code is Finnish-tier hard for me

>>866413

My country's Advanced Licence is 2x 50 question multiple-choice exams. A pass needs 100% correct in the regulations paper, but just 70% correct for the other. I'm hoping there aren't 15 or more Q-code questions...

>>866402

It's too bad it doesn't teach you how to write properly.

>>866326 (OP)

Software radio is genuinely interesting. HAM radio is more about emergency preparedness and old farts talking about gear. If you want to transmit, you'll need a license.

The technicians license is super easy. The General license isn't much more difficult. The Amateur Extra has many more questions from a much larger pool. The General and Amateur Extra will get you a few more frequencies that you can use.

There's a free program on Linux called hamexam that you can use to study. If you're in the US, you can look up where to take the test on the ARRL website. You're not required to know Morse Code for any of the tests. There are some general ohm's law and electrical component questions you might need to brush up on.

>>866402

Do you get a special badge if you get a high enough ham radio rep?

>>867077

You get a badge for turning on the radio. :^)

>>866364

>Ham radio is radio for the sake of radio

THIS. If you aren't into radio itself and RF engineering as a hobby don't waste your time. If you aren't already into SWL or satcom or something similar, you should probably try those out first. You don't need a license to receive.

>>867148

>DMR

shit codec

>>867202

>incomparable

*incompatible

>>867202

Kenwood hopped on the dstar meme now too actually.

>I got my amateur radio class mostly for college

..for college? I'd like to know what that's about. (Admission credit?)

>>866329

This, its one of the tightest circlejerks in existence. They'll hunt you down by triangulating your location, kick down your door and basically SWAT you for intruding on their sekrit boomer club

>>876607

mount a radio transmitter on a quadcopter and use it to troll hamplanets

>>866326 (OP)

I joined for the fun of it, the appeal of ham radio is that it's an independent source for communication when all else fails. also, radios can sometimes operate in cell-phone dead-zones.

If you really want to get transmit distance out of your setup, that's the part where it gets expensive. VHF/UHF bands have most of their activity through repeaters, those bands don't have much simplex activity aside from the ARRL band-plan freqs. simplex gets most of it's activity through the HF and lower bands, and the entry-level base stations are easily $1100+ USD. if you just want to listen to HF or lower, make a long-wire antenna and hook it up to a shortwave radio with something simple.

if you really wanna shitpost or listen to shitposts on the airwaves, 7.2mhz 14.313mhz and 3.699mhz will be your best bets. some hams are autistic about the law, but really the FCC comes after you only if you transmit without a callsign, spam the airwaves, or operate with power levels so high that your neighbors' TV speakers start outputting your broadcasts.

>>866329

>>876607

>>866369

VE7KFM, is that you? probably not, but I would be amused if he actually uses 8ch

>>876607

>>876611

Do you believe that people should have the right to pollute shared resources? Ham radio is a shared resource that everyone ought to use with responsibility. Don't shit up our water supply and don't shit up our radio space.

>>876677

We're all shitting up the internet right now, aren't we?

>>876696

I normally don't consider shitposting on a website to affect the rest of the Internet. Doing things like the DOS of fundamental DNS servers or the automated exploition of public vulnerabilities to be a different matter.

>>876677

What's stopping a group of people just continuously broadcasting an annoying tone? I'd guess th expense of the equipment is the barrier to entry?

>>876696

Shitposting on a website is more akin to bantering in a bar.

Shitposting on the airwaves would be more like blocking the highway/road

>>876844

< blocking the highway/road

Oh no, how long before BlackLivesMatter 's Jewish backers find out about radio?

personally, I haven't met an elitist ham. Now, I know that they exist but the majority of hams aren't like that. The hams that I have met have been really helpful. But most hams tend to view ham radio as a privilege; they want you to get your license and callsign and play things by the book, so that FCC (or whatever) doesn't add new restrictions for hams. And secondly, most hams want you to get a license and callsign because when (if) you get a license, it means you know the basics how to operate a transceiver and the customs of ham radio. Thirdly, hams despise those brainlets who give CB radio its bad name and they want to keep those out.

>>876622

>>876782

the costs aren't necessarily that high. You can get a cheap walkie-talkie (a wouxun or similar) for abt <= $50 But the range of a cheap walkie-talkie is rather limited (esp. without a repeater)

>>876846

kek. as if they would care about ham radio. all they want is publicity and more money. But >>876844 was serious and that comparison isn't bad.

>>876782

> I'd guess th expense of the equipment is the barrier to entry?

Yes.

On HF its cost, effort, and knowledge. Pick any 2.

On VHF and UHF any idiot can set up a mobile radio or HT and get on the air. But your range would be very limited and it would be easy to triangulate.

And you just don't get that much feedback. You can't hear when your TXing and people will just move to another freq. Its not like shitpostong on a chan or social media where you can get feedback reading all the reactions.

the /b/ of repeaters

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/14747

https://your435.com/

>>876677

>hurr durr theres nothing wrong with being mobruled by a pack of elitist assholes

Fuck you, ham should be deregulated by the FCC. If people want their precious sekrit clubs let them encrypt it.

If you don’t have your technician ticket at least you’re a total pleb and belong on cuck /g/. There is just no excuse.

>>885506

Encryption does nothing if a faggot is keying 24/7 with 500kW on any given frequency

>>876867

The bantz.

>>885958

Yes because that works so well on law enforcement.

>>876677

This would make sense if the rules were just about air wave traffic, but there are rules about content as well. IE I can't sing a song telling you to go fuck yourself over the radio, and that is just wrong.

>>890158

Do you understand words or are you just a meme loving fuck?

Protip: the FCC turns a blind eye to encryption if it's being used for "remote admin" purposes

>Step 1: find someone worth talking to with a packet radio setup

>Step 2: run a service, such as a webcam to monitor forest fires

>Step 3: let friends SSH to you for "remote admin", but really it's just BSD talk or something

>Step 4: ???

>Step 4: Profit!