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I think I learned to not let HAM take my Christmas holidays. I found a recurring pattern where I would tackle some difficult project during the holiday. Before
by p0d 5y ago
I think I learned to not let HAM take my Christmas holidays. I found a recurring pattern where I would tackle some difficult project during the holiday. Before I knew it the holidays were gone and I was back to work.
I am starting to realise that we often replace busy work with other busy things. HAM for example. I have rediscovered walking and the outdoors and am happier for it.
My wife has never had an issue with my HAM hobby. She did tell me off after I fell out of a tree when trying to put up a new antenna. I obviously didn't learn my lesson though as I recently fell off a ladder while working on my shed. Now the lesson has been definitely learned. The last fall rattled me.
- sciurus 5y ago> HAM for example. I have rediscovered walking and the outdoors and am happier for it. Why not both? :-) https://parksontheair.com/ https://parksontheair.com/
- op00to 5y agoPOTA is great. Gets people who want to be outside, outside. Gets people who want to play radio at home .. on the radio.
- beardedwizard 5y agoIt feels like most ham related activities are needlessly complicated and obscure to keep people away. 15 minutes and I still don't know how I can do POTA.
- tzs 5y agoWow...I thought you must be exaggerating, went to the site...and could not tell from it just what the heck POTA is. I could guess because I had heard previously of SOTA (Summits on the Air) and POTA is like SOTA but in parks instead of on summits. This site [1] gives a better idea of the basics. Here's an article on SOTA [2]. [1] http://www.hamparks.org/ http://www.hamparks.org/ [2] http://www.arrl.org/radio-operating-from-summits http://www.arrl.org/radio-operating-from-summits
- p0d 5y agoGood point, maybe I will :-)
- lightlyused 5y agoI kinda like https://www.beachesontheair.com/ https://www.beachesontheair.com/ Nothing like a vertical antenna and salt water.