Amateur Radio

Quick Post-Dayton Update

Got back home from the Day­ton Hamven­tion around 8 PM last night. I went there plan­ning on buy­ing an entry-level HT, but I ended up get­ting attracted to shiny things and bought a Yaesu VX-7R rather than my intended tar­get of some­thing in the FT-60R range. Made a few con­tacts on the trip […]


Spam spam spam spammity spam.….erm…i mean Ham

I passed the test last week­end, but as of yes­ter­day I have a call­sign so I am offi­cially a licensed ama­teur radio oper­a­tor in the United States and any­where else where ama­teurs are gov­erned by the FCC or where the US has rec­i­p­ro­cal licens­ing agree­ments.
I don’t have any hard­ware yet, but I’m now look­ing for […]