Ask HN: How to get started with CB radio?

Re:Ask HN: How to get started with CB radio? by ycken on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @08:04PM (#27767164)

Most anyone on Hacker News should consider all of amateur radio. Morse Code is no longer needed for a license and it opens many more possibilities especially for disaster communications.

Those in the Bay Area should check out "The San Francisco Radio Club ( 1916 - 2020 ) Celeb rating 104 Years serving the city of San Francisco & the Community" < https://www.sfarc.org/ > They are a great bunch and are, as one would expect, very knowledgeable.

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Re:Ask HN: How to get started with CB radio? by wrycoder on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @11:41PM (#27768252)

Once you’ve been hamming for awhile, you might try cw and find out that it’s fun. Talk to the world with a couple of chips, a length of wire, and no computer.

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Re:Ask HN: How to get started with CB radio? by swalberg on Thursday July 08, 2021 @12:01AM (#27768340)

I picked CW up as a pandemic thing and its a blast. Its probably the majority of my on air time now. Never would have thought, since Morse was originally what kept me from the hobby as a kid. Give it a go! 73 DE KN4ZMA

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Re:Ask HN: How to get started with CB radio? by freediver on Thursday July 08, 2021 @02:58AM (#27769079)

What is CW?

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Re:Ask HN: How to get started with CB radio? by sitzkrieg on Thursday July 08, 2021 @03:00AM (#27769087)

constant wave- morse code

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Re:Ask HN: How to get started with CB radio? by irq on Thursday July 08, 2021 @12:34PM (#27774347)

continuous wave

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_wave

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