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True! There are all sorts of ways people do field day. A few tips for someone planning to follow kbaker's advice: - Check out a few field day setups, differe
by grandalf 10y ago
True! There are all sorts of ways people do field day. A few tips for someone planning to follow kbaker's advice:
- Check out a few field day setups, different groups have different goals and culture, and you may connect with one more than another.
- Stick around a while. Many hams will stop by the local field day and hang out for a bit. Someone who is interested in something that you want to learn about might stop by at any minute.
- Give it a try, you can operate the gear with permission from one of the licensed operators.
- Definitely check out CW (morse code). It's amazing that it's still in use but it's lots of fun.
- Steltek 10y ago> - Definitely check out CW (morse code). It's amazing that it's still in use but it's lots of fun. Morse is one of those "unreasonably effective" technologies. * Short of very advanced (and likewise constrained) digital methods, it's the king of long distance. * You can whack together a radio out of $10 of scrap bits. * You can't buy it. It's not a circuit or a thing. It's a skill that you need to learn and it takes way more than just learning the alphabet.
- grandalf 10y agoYes, not to mention that doing it results in a very unique sort of flow/zen state. Highly addictive :)