Subj : No license operators
To   : n2qfd
From : Ciderbat
Date : Sun Apr 07 2024 01:58:00

I just want to pop into this thread because I feel like this is exactly where ¨I'll find the people who can guide me. I am one of those people who recently ¨had my interest piqued by the inexpensive radios from China. I bought a ¨Quansheng, modded it, slapped a Nagoya antenna on it, but I am *new* to this. ¨I have taken the utmost care to not operate without a license. I keep Tx ¨turned off on the channels I'm not supposed to broadcast on, and I wouldn't ¨dare try to transmit on the CB range since the SDR chip in this doesn't ¨filter it properly and I took the time to understand how it can interfere on ¨harmonic freqs without that. So I mostly just listen. But sometimes I want to ¨join. They do trivia on the local EchoLink sometimes, and even though I'm a ¨lot younger than the people participating, I am old enough to get all the ¨80's questions haha! I guess where I'm going with this is: as someone who ¨actually cares about the etiquite of HAM and see how interesting it can be to ¨just have convo and events with people from all over via the waves, what ¨advice might one give me? Like in the sense of resources or whatnot. I'm ¨currently trying to either get a new job or get into a gov't college program ¨after being laid off last summer, so I've got some time before getting a ¨license. But I want to. I've noticed that the people on EchoLink (I'm ¨listening on 444.800mhz from the CN Tower) are all really chill people. I see ¨talk of gatekeeping in this thread, but if I do get on the transmit and ¨encounter that, I'd like to know what I'm talking about. I guess some people ¨get these things and mod them and act all willy nilly with them, but I kind ¨of like having this little alternate window to the world that I can carry ¨around and want to approach it with tact. ¨

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