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Playing with radios teaches you so much: no hobby has been more helpful for my career than ham radio. And it's such a broad hobby: you can make contacts just l
by jcalvinowens 2y ago
Playing with radios teaches you so much: no hobby has been more helpful for my career than ham radio.
And it's such a broad hobby: you can make contacts just like your granddad on MF/HF CW today, and then on monster microwave arrays doing Earth-Moon-Earth with modern digital encodings tomorrow. You only need the one license.
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- wepple 2y ago> Playing with radios teaches you so much: no hobby has been more helpful for my career than ham radio. Can you share some of the broad categories of things you’ve learnt?
- btreecat 2y agoNot OP but some areas my ham ticket has helped me explore: - Antenna design - RF propagation - bandwidth - data rate - environmental effects - laws and regulations - encrypted comms - RF power vs antenna gain - connector types and quality - emergency comms And that's just with my basic tech license.