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Oh look... another amateur radio Snob. I'm sure you'll also want to belittle me because I'm a lowely Tech, thats usually how commenters like you follow up.
by Mister_X 6y ago
Oh look... another amateur radio Snob.
I'm sure you'll also want to belittle me because I'm a lowely Tech, thats usually how commenters like you follow up.
- jlgaddis 6y agoOn the other hand, I don't care which license class you are, whether you passed a code test or not, or even if you just got your ticket yesterday. Welcome to the hobby, it needs more folks like you (if nothing else, it'll help out the signal-to-noise ratio!).
- Mister_X 6y agoThanks for that, I tried getting my ticket when I was 12, but I have a probelm with numbers and time, difficult to explain until I got a brain scan years later. But years later, thanks to the FCC dropping the CW requirement, I was able to pass the test, but I'm stuck as a Tech due to the brain injury, and plenty of Older Hams give me greif about being a Tech. I do what I can and promote Ham radio, I started a Ham club that lasted 2.5 years, taught classes, had them building 5 element, 2 Meter beams out of old TV antennas, I've tried for years to contact the ISS when a Ham was on board (still trying). It's way more than a hobby for me though, it's an intellectual persuit where one can build things too. If you're ever on the Mendocino coast, I always monitor 146.520, one of the few that does anymore. 73-