Ok, let me start out by saying I've had my ham license for 4 or 5 years now but I've never used it. ???
Some background, for a while growing up I wanted to get my ham license, even bought an old Heath Kit receiver and got at least one confirmed station from Brazil or some other South American country. I just never could learn code or more precisely, I never took the time to learn code.
When I found out they dropped the code requirement a few years ago I decided, just as an experience, to take the test to see if I could pass.
Well I did and got my license but I never had a real desire to cruise the airwaves so I just filed it under 'Things I've always wanted to do as a kid and now I have as an adult but never want to do it again' meaning I was happy I finally had the license but I never really wanted to use it.
Now that I'm getting into RVing again, we had a class A when I was a kid, I've seen ham radio mentioned a few times in the forum so I'm asking, in all seriousness, what good is it??
Is it just mainly for the fun of chatting with people or is there a more useful aspect that would give me a reason to dust off the license and get a mobile rig.
Not that I'm putting down the chatting aspect but that's just not me
If I do decide to get a rig what should I go with as a basic system??
So many things so little money :
Bill
Some background, for a while growing up I wanted to get my ham license, even bought an old Heath Kit receiver and got at least one confirmed station from Brazil or some other South American country. I just never could learn code or more precisely, I never took the time to learn code.
When I found out they dropped the code requirement a few years ago I decided, just as an experience, to take the test to see if I could pass.
Well I did and got my license but I never had a real desire to cruise the airwaves so I just filed it under 'Things I've always wanted to do as a kid and now I have as an adult but never want to do it again' meaning I was happy I finally had the license but I never really wanted to use it.
Now that I'm getting into RVing again, we had a class A when I was a kid, I've seen ham radio mentioned a few times in the forum so I'm asking, in all seriousness, what good is it??
Is it just mainly for the fun of chatting with people or is there a more useful aspect that would give me a reason to dust off the license and get a mobile rig.
Not that I'm putting down the chatting aspect but that's just not me
If I do decide to get a rig what should I go with as a basic system??
So many things so little money :
Bill