Does anyone in Sup Forums do Amateur Radio...

Does anyone in Sup Forums do Amateur Radio? Is it worth getting into or is it just for talking to weird old retired guys?

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>radios are now considered Sup Forums

Jesus christ, man.

It's been 50 fucking years.
Nobody needs ham radio anymore when the internet exists.

Have a baofeng which I listen to the poolice on. Other than that not really. I have no intention of getting my license.

Besides that you can listen to the skywarn people play army during snow storms. If you're good with computers the rtl sdr is cool, a lot more difficult and shittier listening experience though.

Well ham can operate off of a car battery, whereas the internet is a fragile hodge podge of cables.

>Potentially anywhere in the world

what kind of antenna did he have?

I am studying for my Technician and General license. If you're interested then yeah give it a try. I can't wait to get my call sign. Also, /k/ is a better place to talk about radios. They have a "regular" /k/ommunications thread.

>the internet is a fragile hodge podge of cables.
When's the last time google went down?

But when Trump or Hillary ban the Internet we'll need it again!

I sometimes tune into a websdr and decode SSTV or DRM transmissions.

What about connecting to the Internet using HAM frequencies?

Is it a fun hobby? I really see no point.

I've tried to get into it but haven't had any success. My area is just really dead. I'd love to mess around with packet radio but supposedly there hasn't been a repeater for that in my area for over a year and I have yet to hear anything on common frequencies for it.

>Nobody needs ham radio anymore when the internet exists.
But the internet is depended on a fuck ton of external infrastructure. The idea of getting to play around with that at a smaller scale is just kind of neat.

You can't say the word fuck over amateur radio or else you get fined and hams are an autistic bunch who report anyone and everyone for intruding on their old man's club.

>I sometimes tune into a websdr and decode SSTV or DRM transmissions.
How do you do this?

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It's become really popular with teenage girls recently.

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>Amateur Radio operators are going to save the world one day.

They've been saying that for 50 years.

Still not the most autistic hobby in the world

nah bro get a ka band satellite and poke around

I'm a ham, so is my entire family.

I have an Anan 200D, connected to a 140 foot dipole, with a 2kw amplifier. Can pretty much hear everyone on HF, and on 80 meters I've gotten through to California, which is a pretty big feat, considering I live in Connecticut.

HI put your granddaughter on, over

So you can talk to people thousands of miles away?

>mfw my uncle has one of those and he actually found a piece of a shipwreck

we don't say over. fucking CB faggots.

10-4 roger that

Take one of these on ski resorts or beaches at the end of the season, enjoy your free phones, cameras and wallets.

yeah pretty much. it's a fun hobby, and i love the engineering aspects to it. it's a way to keep your mind in shape.

also I have my commercial broadcast and emergency service licenses so I sometimes repair radios for fire and police departments that net me a couple grand for a day and a half worth of work.

also just because someone is going to ask, i'm 19. got my licence when i was 13. we're not all old pricks.
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Range can vary tremendously depending on weather conditions. Waves bouncing around trapped between atmospheric layers can allow wormhole-like effects that are transient in nature.

Yeah you also find loads of shit at the beach in summer, a few years it used to be mainly coins but with smartphones shit got real

There is a bright, shining line that divides hams. On one side are all the HF people who are basically appliance operators. They buy a radio, but a tower, buy an antenna, and then ragchew about their cat's goiter. They couldn't tell you about mixers if you waterboarded them. This is the stereotype.

On the other side of that line, are the makers. The builders. Those of us who make our own double balanced mixers just because we can. We build our own VNA, and use SDR to listen to moonbounce with our 1M dish. We build our own microwave transverters and talk to pther microwave contesters a hundred miles away with a few hundred milliwatts, a home made feed and a recycled DirecTV dish.

During emergency drills, I drive my van to the top of a local ridge, point one dish down one side, another dish down the other side, and relay internet traffic from the hospital to a doctor sitting in an ambulance "stuck in the snow". It's the exact same gear I use to go contesting with.

This side of the line is for people who want to make things, and it's a great time to be a ham if this is your style.

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This, I was into ham radio before the internet became a thing. Now, apart for the technical aspect of it, the magic is gone.

I'm a ham and I totally agree with this. The idea that you will be the last man on earth to talk to the other last man on earth is ridiculous.

I'm a ham for the same reason I play Halo - it's a fuck ton of fun to build radio gear. The amount of surplus shit on Ebay that you can tear apart and reuse is just phenomenal. If you're a maker, it's a great time to be a ham. Hell, I have a half dozen Arduinos, Propellers, MSP430s or RPis doing interface work for me. Like autotracking ISS as it passes overhead by listening to the signal strength and adjusting the alt-az dynamically. You can talk to an astronaut on a cheap ass Baofeng if you can point an antenna at the station. Very cool if making things is your gig.

You only need a handful of watts in CW to be heard around the world, it the conditions are right of course.

>It's become really popular with teenage girls recently.

Somehow I have trouble believing this.

This dude ought to get into moonbounce. Those hams are STILL MacGuyvers, and now that SDR and JT65 is available, it's brought the cost of entry down to the point where ordinary mortals can talk to the big guns.

Which Baofeng do you use to listen to the police? I'm in the US, can I use it here for the same purpose?

op here, I ordered a baofeng on amazon. I also took a fake tech exam online and passed even though I barely studied. seems pretty easy famalam. Might be fun for a while and if I don't enjoy it I'm only out a few bucks

when my 4g drops cause phones are shit

>license
>to yammer into a microphone just like I already do on my phone
No thank you.

I'm a member of the local amateur radio club in my area. The older lot do it to wave dicks about the number of contacts they've made. Younger members like me have more interest in the technical end of it, tieing in automation systems of sorts and whatnot.

Amateur radio itself can be a hobby, or you can leverage all the spectrum the FCC allots you for other things. You'd also be hard pressed to find another license that gives you legal room to build your own antennas and operate on VHF with a 500 watt amplifier you built on your own based on guides from 2002 on the internet, old hardware and random bits from digikey.

Given the way the internet is going, having amateur radio available is important. If not only for emergency communications, but that radio equipment with wide functionality is just floating about should da gubmint fuck up the Internet for everyone it is almost assured you'll be able to obtain a ham radio, and find someone on the air with it.

Found this guide on /k/

Many local authorities use channels in the clear you can listen to on such a handheld. State radio systems are often on digital voice/digital trunking platforms that require either an expensive 800Mhz band scanner or some SDR's, unitrunker and a heavy dose of patience to decode the output.