Subj : Re: 2 meter license
To   : Speed Demon
From : Spaceman Spiff
Date : Sat Jul 31 2004 11:29 am

  Re: Re: 2 meter license
  By: Speed Demon to Bill Mageors on Mon Apr 05 2004 02:02 pm

 > -=> Bill Mageors wrote to All <=-
 > 
 >  BM> Anyone know of a good book to start with to get a ham licence for 2
 >  BM> meters?
 > 
 > Why would anyone want to get on 2 meters? it's a flipping Glorified CB band.
 > Get your General and get on 40 or 75 meter or better yet 160, WHERE the REAL
 > hams hang out!
 > 
 > -Chuck K8CPA
 > 
 > 
 > ... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format offline reader!
I disagree, 2 meters is a good band. If local HAMs in your area have turned it
into CB, that is a shame and there probably needs to be some policing of that
band in your area.

I live in the East Coast, We get a lot of tropospheric ducting, many times we
can talk from Pennsylvania up in through New England and Down through Virginia.
I have heard of HAM's making contacts on 2 meters all the way down trhough the
Florida Keys, never happened for me.  

I encourage anyone to get their ticket and use 2 meters, readios are
inexpensive and antennas are very easy to build. It is great to start out on.
HF is the next step and will come as a natural progression.

Yes HF is great!!! You can talk the world.  But 2 meters is great for keeping
in contact with the local HAMs and coversations can be as good as the
personalities on the air.

73 Mark

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