Ham Radio??

[dhunt]

Just got my license yesturday in the mail and was wondering if any KB's are into Ham Radio's at all??

[Hitcher]

if any KB's are into Ham Radio's at all??

Sigh. What about the trainspotters?

"Calling all trucks, this here's the Duck. Land-sakes alive, we've got ourselves a convoy!"

[riffer]

My parents are both radio hams (ZL2ACW and ZL2AGS - see here.). Spent many a weekend when young helping my father build radio aerials (some damn big ones too), helping them fix the repeater up on Mt Climie, and trying to interpret morse code.

Enjoy the ham radio...

[Yamahamaman]

I've had a T grade certificate for years. I don't have any transmitting equipment, but I sometimes listen on the 80 metre band.

[NC]

You hold pigs up to your ear?

[dhunt]

You hold pigs up to your ear?

Haven't you heard of that. It's all the rage. Normally you have to put in a knife to make an aerial then it's pretty hard to shut them up.

[dhunt]

You hold pigs up to your ear?

But if you really want to know Ham Radio is another name for Amateur Radio. This allows Amateur Radio operators to communication via radios to each other round the world for free

[Skyryder]

But if you really want to know Ham Radio is another name for Amateur Radio. This allows Amateur Radio operators to communication via radios to each other round the world for free

Is this where they tell 'porkies' to each other.

OK I know it's that's a bit of a lame duck joke but is only 8.00 in the morning and it is the best I can do at this hour. to wake me up.



Skyryder

[Slipstream]

Just got my license yesturday in the mail and was wondering if any KB's are into Ham Radio's at all??

My Dad just got a callcode again about a month ago and now he wants to give the learn

He's a retired telecomunications advisor. Helped some small island get radio. Designed it himself or something.

Guess he just can't get it outta his blood

[badlieutenant]

lol just read this on the link. should be in waris thread as well

Among the numerous side shows at a recent N.Z. Exhibition was one at which a man, after putting a cork into an empty cask, succeeded time after time in blowing the cork out of the bung hole in the top of the cask. A reporter of the Hutt Chronicle commenting on this, said:

"It is no doubt a clever performance, but if the man had put his mouth to the cork-hole and then blown the cask out of the bung hole, or if he had put his mouth to the cask hole and blown the cask out of the cork hole, or if he had put his mouth to the cask and blown the bung hole out of the cork hole, or if he had put the cask to the bung hole and blown the cork out of his mouth, or if he had put the bung hole to his ear hole and blown the cask out of the cork hole, or if he had put the cork up his ear hole and blown his mouth out of the bung hole, or if he had stuffed his ear hole up the bung hole and blown the cork hole inside out through the cask hole, or if he had blown his ear hole up his mouth and pulled the bung hole out of the cork hole, or if he had stuffed himself up his ear hole and blown the cask up his bung hole, or if he had stuffed the cork hole and the bung hole in his mouth and blown himself out of his ear hole, or if he had blown the cask hole up his ear hole and blocked his bung hole up with the cork hole, it would have been in his opinion much more extraordinary."

[Storm]

So with it being ham radio, I guess you dont get too many Islamic folks into it ?

[NC]

But if you really want to know Ham Radio is another name for Amateur Radio. This allows Amateur Radio operators to communication via radios to each other round the world for free

OHHH!!!! Like Bfm?

[Slingshot]

My old mans into ham radio (ZL2BFY), sounds like I had a similar childhood to celticn06. I tryed to get my ham radio ticket when I was thirteen, passed but had to do the morse code as well cause I didn't pass by enough.
It made physics & maths at school kinda easy, I remember my physics teacher making some comments that the stuff we had to know was at 1st year uni level.

Dad was also right into the comms side of search & rescue so we would quite often fly up to mt holdsworth & mt barton to do work on the repeators. That was cool.

Oh and who could forget the jamborie on the air with the cubs, where you actually got to talk to other cubs around the world on Ham radio.

WOW

[dhunt]

My old mans into ham radio (ZL2BFY), sounds like I had a similar childhood to celticn06. I tryed to get my ham radio ticket when I was thirteen, passed but had to do the morse code as well cause I didn't pass by enough.
It made physics & maths at school kinda easy, I remember my physics teacher making some comments that the stuff we had to know was at 1st year uni level.

Exam's pretty easy (multichoice) just have to learn a few regulations etc. They've taken out morse now so if you were keen you could go in and they'd give you a full license now.

[StoneChucker]

Would anyone know if you can use the radio operators licence you get while learning to fly (planes) with other radios, ham's for example?

Wouldn't it be cool if you could ask other bikes for a "weather report" as you ride by? (like US long haul truckies)