Re:Amateur radio skills prove useful during bushfire emergen...
by catblast on Sunday February 02, 2020 @07:05PM
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> As I say, I just switch them on really.
Ok. It sounds like you're mostly talking about military communications. For a very restricted set of short distance communication a pre-configured HF radio set with a pre-matched antenna may be pretty straightforward to use, but buying a brand new HF rig and getting it to communicate hundreds of miles is a lot more than just "switching them on". There's more to HF communications then you seem to realize. In the amateur service there are power restrictions, and modulation restrictions. If conditions are suboptimal there is then the issue of filtering or signal processing.
Re:Amateur radio skills prove useful during bushfire emergen...
by chrisseaton on Sunday February 02, 2020 @07:08PM
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Oh ok.
No I've used HF, VHF and UHF, voice and data, clear and encrypted, in war-zones and around the world. I've seen people sometimes have to do some innovative things with antenna geometry for special use-cases, but apart from that I usually just switch them on and push to talk.
> Maybe you have to accept that not everyone is as smart in gadgets as you are..
As I say, I just switch them on really.