Pierat
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Thanks to all for the info. Glad to hear more. John, good point about county expense and RACES.
Pierat said:Got my technician license! Now, to learn what all that information Really means....
wpflum said: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
Read the bottom of the quote and the signature below that.PancakeBill said:What is the point of quoting a previous post and not commenting?
There are groups of Hams that provide specialized emergency communication inside and between Hospitals during phone outages, earthquakes and other mass casualty incidents. Check this URL for such group, the Hospital Disaster Support Communication system in Orange County CA
http://www.hdscs.org/]http://www.hdscs.org/] http://www.hdscs.org/