Get hooked up with a good radio club and you will expand you activities.
K3CLT Chuck Tobias
On Sunday, December 23, 2018, 11:22:00 PM EST, k6whp <k6whp@...> wrote:
As others have said, congratulations on your ticket and welcome to amateur radio. Inasmuch as I am commenting on the FT60 venue, my advice may regarded by more than one of the members here with a gimlet eye. However, I would seriously -- and very respectfully -- recommend that you immediately branch out and find what other facets of the hobby/service sound intriguing.
There are these new folks who are referred to a "Baofeng Techs" who think this is only about attempting to check into drive time round tables on the local repeater with their HT (usually a Baofeng) and do little else for five or so years before going back to philately.
As an example of variety, Clint, K6LCSI, will tell you, there is a wealth fun to be discovered in Satellites. Others become enamored of HF and/or spend their hours chasing DX. VHF/UHF geeks revel in..well..the VHF and UHF technologies and the incredible explosion of digital and linked repeater systems and talk groups and all that. My personal crush is HF QRP with an eye towards building and operating outdoors whit the radios I build.
It is mind-bogging the array of fun stuff to be found here in amateur radio.
You take my point, I am sure. But one thing you may rely on is that a great many hams are more than eager to share their knowledge with you so do not be afraid to ask.
Best of luck and hope to hear you on some time! -- William, K6WHP "Cheer up, things could get worse..so I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse!"
