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To: jaydee770

Excellent! I am now studying electronics online. (CIE.) I would love to hear more about the licenses, the process, your equipment and your successes!


9 posted on 06/08/2015 6:26:57 AM PDT by golux
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To: golux

My primary goal was just getting licensed and it happened a lot faster than I had expected — I was expecting to take at least a couple of attempts. All I have at the moment is a cheap, chinese, handi-talkie. Fortunately, I’m within a couple miles of a repeater.

So, now I have to start saving my nickles and dimes to buy some “stuff”. Transmitting watts cost $$, even on the low side (100 watts). This makes even lower power (QRP) operation mighty tempting to a newbie. And low-power means (for practical reasons) primarily morse-code.

Now, these days you can hook a computer up to send and receive morse code for you — but that seems quite a bit less satisfying than working the key myself. So there is my next course(s) of study...


31 posted on 06/08/2015 6:58:34 AM PDT by jaydee770
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