It sure was. The weather was amazing, and I was able to take the ferry on the way home. A day off well spent, for sure.

I also worked 2 different hams in the other side of the park, N0XRG and KF5QYG. We did some 6 meter park-to-park contacts. Never had the p2p be the same park before.

One, I don't know why you're super hostile about this. Two, that video talks about ham radios, but if you look up what the FCC is doing, it's not that. It's concerning telecom devices produced by certain Chinese manufacturers.

www.reuters.com/business/med...

This doesn't appear to be banning ham radios though. It's more for things like network infrastructure, cameras, etc. that can potentially be accessed by bad actors.

When does this ban happen? I just received a couple radios directly from China.

It's still a thing. Last Saturday, I got on the air and talked to people in Canada, the Canary Islands, Cuba, Colombia, and all over the US.

Likewise, Chris! See out out there again soon, hopefully!

Haha cool! Hope you had as good an activation as I did! 73 and thanks again for the QSO!

Yep, I've sometimes used a mag mount 2m whip on a cookie sheet with really good results.

Ham (it's just "ham", by the way) radio has a large learning curve, especially for coordinated efforts like that. You also need a license to legally transmit on the ham bands.

If you want to do something like that, a mesh network like meshtastic would work better. It can be encrypted, too.

Sure. Just not on the sabbath. That's when you hire your goy neighbor to work your radio when the bands are open.

Yep, it's been that way for years. I think everyone just lets them have those few kHz so that it's just concentrated around 7200 and not scattered across the band. 14313 used to be like that too, but it's calmed down a bunch in recent years. 80 meters is still all about politics and old man health.

I don't do much digital operation, sticking mainly to CW and SSB, but you hear Hell and other modes from time to time.

I'm not entirely sure where I got this one. If I see estate sales or some cheap stuff at hamfests, I get it.

It really is pretty awesome, even after all these years.

Haha wow. Just today I found an old TM-261 I had forgotten about and was wondering what the hell I should do with it. Looks like my junk boxes and work bench may have most, if not all, the stuff needed to also build a digipeater.

It's a fun hobby. Is any other reason really necessary?

Yeah, man. Me. Plus loads of others. In fact, it's all I use bluesky for. It's nice.

Just a note. You don't have to have a ham license to receive these signals. And hams can't transmit on most of these frequencies anyway. It's a fun project to set up.