Why are Women told never to listen to CB?

skyhawk, just curious would you be interested in selling that FT1000D ?

 

Sorry but the yakamo not for sale...

 

Bill104, interesting is your take on the new breed of hams coming in. While I can see your point since it's easier to get in due to the dropping of the code almost 5 years ago, I would not have thought it was that bad. If it makes you hate me any worse, I'm a no coder, but then again I'm not interested in code anyways. I just got tired of turning on the 11 M radio and not having anyone to chat with. Plus there's a local amateur radio club (I just signed up yesterday) that is pretty active. So I figure it's my chance to finally key up and chat. I can't wait until tornado season come spring, as we have a few Skywarn nets around. I can tune in and hear them talking about the storm before the Nat'l Weather Service sends out the bulletin. Now I'm wanting to study to get my general, the only thing stopping me is I'm currently studying for a promotion (Air Force) so once that's done I'm going to shoot for general. I'm really interested in getting on the HF bands and working some DX.

SkyHawkTexas, I can understand you not wanting to deal with ham jerks, most of the hams I've met were nice and helpful, but I do know there's some bad apples out there, that have kept others from wanting to join. I had a ham come off on me because I was a noob and didn't say my call sign right. I met another ham who helped me get my base antenna fixed. I told him and he did give me a good pierce of advice...."they can't kill you/eat you".....meaning so they came off a little abrasive...whoop-de-doo. He was right though, and I shrugged it off. Not much different when I get on the CB and some ignoramus calls me a name or whatever. I just call them a CB rambo and tell them to have a nice day and try not to bust a blood vessel getting their pink panties in a wad.

 

Turbo-T if you pursue skywarn. I would highly recommend going to the class. Tons of information to be absorbed in a little amount of time is the only downfall to it. But it will give you some knowledge of what kind of information they are looking for. I would also recommend going out with an experienced chaser for a few times before trying to go out on your own. I had a blast doing skywarn when I was a ham.

As far as what you was telling me about a few bad... Heck 1/2 to 3/4s of them in my area was towards the new no coders coming in. When I came in. All we had was uhf/vhf, 6 meters and a small sliver of 10 meters limited to code... no phone privileges though.

 

I might do that one day, I've kinda wanted to get into storm spotting. As for 10 meters, times have changed. Techs can now run voice 28.300 to 28.499 on USB. I made 7 contacts in 4 different states in a short weekend on 28.400 with nothing more than a Magnum 257 HP and a home brew dipole on the roof.

 

You should of spun the dial instead of staying on one frequency,at this point of the solar cycle you can fill several pages in the logbook in a weekend.

 

Actually I did do that. I heard a few faint QSO's going on. At the time the band was drifting in and out. I think I may have made one contact on 28.360 but other than that was 28.400. Also 28.400 is the calling freq. So for someone trying to establish DX calls w/o breaking into QSO's, I figured that was a good place to start.

 

This looks like a classic

HIJACK!!


I'm tellin Otter!

 

I've hear some pretty fowl mouth women out there too, there two side to every story.