Member ns7x
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What a fantastic idea!
I think there are a lot of techs who are interested in learning CW, and I can’t think of a better way to establish good operating habits than to become proficient in code. Just sayin’.73 de MaryAnn NS7X
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Hello, John74, and welcome to Ham Community.
I think you’ll find ham radio is a life-long adventure in which you have a whole world to explore – both figuratively and literally.
Enjoy the journey!
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k3mri said: ” Some might add a third element: is it a service to society?”
Well, the FCC apparently thinks amateur radio is a service to society. That’s why it doesn’t refer to ham radio as a hobby. According to part 97, it is the Amateur Radio Service.
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Personally, one of my passions is teaching. If you think about it, teaching is nothing more than communicating a concept or an idea to someone else. That is pretty much what we do as hams. Just like a teacher, we communicate. And, in my opinion, that makes us pretty cool.
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It’s true. If you don’t want to live in a neighborhood controlled by an HOA, find another place to live.
However, I live in a house that my parents bought in 1953. In other words, my neighborhood was extant long before anyone knew how to spell HOA. One day, about 20 years ago, folks in my neighborhood decided to establish a “neighborhood association” (read that HOA). Fortunately, the whole push for the HOA died a quiet death and never became an issue for me. However, my point is that it’s not always a question of not buying a house in an HOA. Sometimes, the HOA moves into your neighborhood in spite of you.
Anyway, as of January 30, 2024, Senate Bill S. 3690 (the Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act) has been introduced to the Senate and I believe is now in committee. It seeks to amend the Communications Act of 1934 and will protect amateurs from being prevented to place antennas on their property due to HOA restrictions. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3690/text
This may be a good time to contact your senator and ask their support of this bill. -
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My husband died in April of 2022. Throughout our 30 plus years together, I was madly in love with him. If truth be told, I’m still madly in love with him. Suffice it to say that losing him devastated me.
We were not the typical ham radio couple. Since the 60’s, when he was a Boy Scout, he wanted to get his license. Unfortunately for him, life, the universe, and other things got in his way so his plans to become a ham were relegated to the bottom of his priorities.
Me, on the other hand, had been licensed as an extra for years when we first met. I was the one who taught him the difference between reactance and resistance, and who made the decisions about what rig to get and what antennas to put up. He always told me that one of things he found most attractive about me was that I was a ham. Pretty cool, huh?
Anyway, he got his tech, and his general, and had great plans to get his extra – but then he took ill.
I had only been minimally active on the ham bands when the love of my life died. I really hadn’t been “radio active” for a good number of years. My grief left me totally isolated – completely alone. Out of my desperate anguish, I checked into a local ragchew net. And presto-changeo! Like that! I found a whole group of hams who not only walked with me through my grief, but gave me reasons to look forward.
It turns out that many of my local ham group have also lost their spouse. We now have a monthly lunch where we meet. We laugh. We cry. We talk radio stuff and we hug each other. A lot.
I guess you could say that, for me, ham radio has been a life saver,
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Dick,
Thanks for your post.
I am a dinosaur, and, as such, I don’t even know how to spell DNR. I’m to trying to catch up with the digital world. I guess you could say that I’m an old dog trying to learn new tricks.
Having said that, I understand that amateur radio is a lifeline in whatever mode one has the opportunity to operate. I may be old, but I can still excite a few electrons…
73 de MaryAnn, NS7X
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This shack project is oh-so-cool! Sure wish I had that kind of talent and the energy to “make it so” (as Jean Luc Picard would say).