Handheld two-way radios for preppers and other curious folks

Re:Handheld two-way radios for preppers and other curious folks by giantrobot on Saturday February 20, 2021 @09:47PM (#26210379)

> As evidenced in the community-developed ham exam, which deals with such exciting and timely topics as tuning vacuum tube amplifiers, receiving analog slow-scan TV signals, memorizing Morse code shorthands, and DX contests that lost most of their "oomph" when the Internet showed up.

That's a lot of text to just tell everyone you made up a bunch of shit. None of that shit is on licensing exams. What is on the exams are things demonstrating you've got enough knowledge to not electrocute yourself, not get RF burns, not turn your radio into a jamming device, and understand the etiquette for sharing very limited bandwidth available to amateurs.

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Re:Handheld two-way radios for preppers and other curious folks by throwaway3neu94 on Saturday February 20, 2021 @10:24PM (#26210540)

Here are the question IDs from the 2019-2023 general and 2020-2024 extra pools.

Vacuum tube amplifier tuning: E7B09, https://hamstudy.org/browse/E4_2016/E7B

Analog slow scan television signal components: E2B10, https://hamstudy.org/browse/E4_2020/E2B

Morse code shorthands: G2C02, https://hamstudy.org/browse/E3_2015/G2C

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Re:Handheld two-way radios for preppers and other curious folks by jimnotgym on Sunday February 21, 2021 @04:26AM (#26212101)

Vacuum tube amplifiers are still current technology for the high power folks, especially home builders.

Some morse shorthand is useful. CQ for instance. QRM, QSO and many more are all used for voice as well.

However, I will not defend the old guard too far. I get tired of the right-wing boomer conversations pretty quickly. Everything was better in the past....blah blah

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