Ham radio repeaters
I have an old Yaesu I haven't touched for 10 years. Wondering whether it is worth the effort to dust it off. Have any ham operators out there had any success at all raising up contacts off repeaters...
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I'll give this QSO a little kick.
The code was dropped for VP9 as well. There used to be one license class. Theory, somewhat similar to the US General level, & code at 15WPM with a requirement for 1 minute error free in the test. That was the easy part.
The hard part was, after you passed the test & had ticket in hand, you could not pick up a HF transmitter mike till you had done 500 CW contacts.
Now that took some doing.
Today the code has been dropped but still new hams are hard to come by. I blame the internet. Before the internet ham radio was the hobby to communicate with the world. Now it is at the tips of anyones fingers.
The code was dropped for VP9 as well. There used to be one license class. Theory, somewhat similar to the US General level, & code at 15WPM with a requirement for 1 minute error free in the test. That was the easy part.
The hard part was, after you passed the test & had ticket in hand, you could not pick up a HF transmitter mike till you had done 500 CW contacts.
Now that took some doing.
Today the code has been dropped but still new hams are hard to come by. I blame the internet. Before the internet ham radio was the hobby to communicate with the world. Now it is at the tips of anyones fingers.
