Wish me luck☘️ PASSED!

[ACORN]

Well that didn’t take long.
I got notified of my license being issued,
KD3BJQ
last night.
I’ve got to mention the club that held the classes, Two Rivers Amateur Radio Club, call sign W3OC.
What a great bunch of guys!
Jim, Jeff, Geno, Bill, John, and the rest of the gang.
Really made me feel welcome.
Doing it all for free.
My friend Geno, the man that encouraged me to get my ticket, stopped at work to congratulate me and told me that they’re going to build a dipole and one of the members is going to give/lend me a rig to use. At least till I can decide what one to buy and get my General.
Interesting to me, at least, is this call sign, W3OC, was my aunts fathers call sign, Hunter J Lohman. He was a radio pioneer in the area, and was partners in an electronics company and radio station in the 20s.
Time to start cracking the books studying for my General.

 

[kilo charlie]

Congrats.
KF5GGC

 

[TIMETRIPPER]

Congratulations! Does this make you an official "HAM" radio operator?

John

 

[ACORN]

Congratulations! Does this make you an official "HAM" radio operator?

John

Yes, the lowest class. Limited frequencies, and power output.

As my Dad would say “ham ain’t nothing but a pigs arse.

Cue Rusty for the boneless inverted pig rectums meme.

 

[TaxPhd]

Congrats!

General isn’t too much harder. Spend a week or two on the online practice tests, and you’ll do fine.

I passed Tech and General at the same sitting, bought an FT710, and work the world with a homemade speaker wire dipole. It’s a pretty cool hobby

KK7OQL

 

[Sarge9]

Congrats. Extra here, get that Gen and check out POTA, 425 Parks here.
Hamtestonline.com is a good site. FYI, you can test from home now BTW
73,
Sarge

 

[Bugkiller99]

No.
I should have, but I took a couple practice exams for the General and I was lost.
I’m going to start studying.

Yes, just roll right into the General exam. Don’t wait, like I did. You have privileges for 10 meter HF now. Great time to use them, in the current solar cycle. I’ll look for you on the airwaves.

 

[GaryS]

Congratulations on finding another expensive hobby!

 

[ACORN]

Congratulations on finding another expensive hobby!

Ain’t that the truth.
Just what I need.
Oh well, you can’t take it with you.

 

[ACORN]

Anyone here run FT8?

 

[Rat458]

Congratulations.
Got my Tech a few years ago and took classes for my General last year.
Welcome to the club.
And yes , another rabbit hole to pursue.
You can do it if you shop around and many Elmers like to get new people started with advice and parts.
I spend a lot of time on 2 meters and and started my HF with a 710 and a EFHW long wire .
Good luck
KJ7DDW

 

[ACORN]

Anyone have a suggestion on a transceiver?
I’d like a tri band AM FM SSB around 50W or more.
I’d like to keep it around $500 for the radio so I figure it’s going to be a mobile with a power supply.
Pie in the sky?

 

[rcnixon]

I’m taking my Tech. Class amateur radio test tonight.
I may take the General but right now that’s above my skill set

A little late, but welcome to the hobby!
AE here but not very active lately because of deed restrictions. I hate HOAs.

 

[Bugkiller99]

Anyone have a suggestion on a transceiver?
I’d like a tri band AM FM SSB around 50W or more.
I’d like to keep it around $500 for the radio so I figure it’s going to be a mobile with a power supply.
Pie in the sky?

That might be hard to do. Couple of questions

AM. I assume you want to listen to AM aviation. That’s pretty easy to find. HF AM is common, but your current privileges don’t include AM. If you are going to get your General or Extra, you will have AM privileges.

SSB. Are you wanting SSB VHF, UHF? Or HF? Or both? You have privileges to 10 meter SSB, (common), and VHF/UHF SSB,(not so common)

And to answer another question, yes I do FT8.

Feel free to DM me,

 

[SixgunFife]

A belated congratulations! I took and passed my Technician test almost exactly 10 years ago, as I just had to renew my license haha.

Took the test at the behest of a buddy who is far more into the hobby than I am. I joke that I just may be the least active Ham radio operator ever haha. I’m not on the air much but like to chime-in on the local nets from time to time via a Baofeng HT.

 

[ACORN]

That might be hard to do. Couple of questions

AM. I assume you want to listen to AM aviation. That’s pretty easy to find. HF AM is common, but your current privileges don’t include AM. If you are going to get your General or Extra, you will have AM privileges.

SSB. Are you wanting SSB VHF, UHF? Or HF? Or both? You have privileges to 10 meter SSB, (common), and VHF/UHF SSB,(not so common)

And to answer another question, yes I do FT8.

Feel free to DM me,

Yes I plan on getting my General ticket and thought I could kill 2 birds with I radio.
Thanks

 

[Kinman]

Just be glad you don't have to do morse code anymore!

I was in the Army's Navy, I had passed through the initial MOS of 61A10 or Seaman, then moved onto 61B20 Landing Craft Operator, and finally to 61B30 or Harbor Craft Operator. One of the things required for 61B30 was Morse Code both audible and light as well as semaphore and understanding what the various flags mean. Initially some of the guys that only got as far as 61A10 had trouble trying to differentiate between Port and Starboard and understanding the green=starboard, red=port light issues to the point the instructors took red and green gaff tape and wrapped it around the toes of their boots. Morse Code and reading light was kinda tough when you only have a couple days and then unlike in the Navy where if your a signalman thats all you do while on duty. When I got to Nam and we were out beyond the sea buoy we would get lit up by a Navy destroyer, those guys send light so fast it almost looks like one continuous beam. I would answer with "P l e a s e....S l o w....D o w n." The reply would be "OOOOO....KKKKKK" I hated those guys.

 

[Rat458]

Spent a little while in a Army 'Boat 'unit in here in Washington while a National Guard member.
They have a small number of landing craft that I rebuilt the engines for.

 

[Murphy's Law]

Congrats my friend. My father use to be K4XZ and at the age of 11 got my general class as K8VHB....then many years later I got my Extra class as N6AO (in between was also VK6FO) while stationed in the U.S. Navy for 22 years. My interest was always CW and very little SSB. Qualified as speed key operator during my service years and really got into high speed CW (speeds well about 40wpm). I was even noted many years ago in a QST article about the extremely high speed that few obtain. I am no longer active (age now 79) but still keep my FCC license up to date. When I become a silent key, my XYL knows who to notify to take me off the rolls with FCC and Ham Radio Call Books. I hope you will enjoy your hobby for many more years to come. Meant to mention, retired from Navy as Senior Chief Radioman/ET.

 

[Narragansett]

I was trained in college to take the FCC 3d class test. then you need to do 2nd and first. First class allows you to operate a radio broadcast station. I went off into electrical contracting, and never regretted it. Glad you passed