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HAMvention volunteer 🤘🏼 

if you’re into amateur radio, then you know what a big deal this convention is for us. 

hope to see you out here this year

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oohh do you have a fun callsign? Some day I'd like to get into HAM. My uncle was a trucker and had soooo many radio rigs

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KE8ZNV is my call sign, I still need to test for my general, but I’ll likely not change my call sign when I do. But I would love to have a W8 call sign 

Testing is very easy and fun. At least for the technician (where I’m at right now, step 1) — HamStudy is a paid app that’s worth the money when it comes to preparing for the test. 

There is some overlap with truckers, but you’ll likely not find much of their radios and equipment here.

Mostly what I do is listen to other people talk about how they use it. I don’t have my general and some things I wanna do, like digital, you’ve gotta have your general license (which I’m slowly studying for)

On sundays I join or listen to my club’s radio net. We call in and talk about a specific topic. Usually it’s something radio specific or sports and gardening. Other days of the week I leave my radio on and listen to the world wide friendship net—
I’ve never called into that net because I listen to it through a repeater and I’m not really sure where to call in. I enjoy listening anyways it’s extremely busy with calls.

But what I want to get into is mesh tastic, and something called cyber pony express that my friend is building out in California 

— I also am really interested in Fox hunting, which is a game where you can hide a few signals and then use some yagi like antennas to go on a hunt to go find them. 

Sorry if that was too much info 😬

Ohh of course, CB vs HAM, I wasn't even thinking of that! I may start looking into that, I think it would be fun to tinker with. How do you use it (or plan to use it)? Just like, talk with strangers out in the world?