Just some video of the Wilson County Amateur Radio Club field day events here In Lebanon Tennessee wilsonarc.wordpress.com Remember your emergency supplies, The Ready Store ( best price guarantee) www.thereadystore.com And if you want to try to make a few bucks helping others prepare www.thereadystore.com
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
What a cool look into Field Day 2010 from Wilson County! Thank you for the video response to Field Day 2010 in Central Oregon.
73′s de KF7ETX / USNERDOC
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
I prefer bacon, do you have any bacon radio? lol, thanks dave
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
So your a Ham.. So am I since 1987. Still a Novice yes I’m a procrastinator : ). A ham who owned an old bicycle shop in Palm Springs Ca got me hooked in 87. He gave me good condition Kenwood 599 Twins which I used for five years until I saved up for a used 820 then on to a used TS440 which I still use today. I have a used Uniden 2510 in my truck which might have melted in the 112F heat we’ve had this week lol. I’ve also been a photographer since the early 70′s. I really like your videos dsarti1.
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
If the electrical grid goes down around the world….all of this equipment will become useless. Solar flares could fry all this stuff in theory. I think I’ll spend my money on food and water storage instead. In a SHTF world what good will it do me to talk to someone who is 1000 miles from where I am. In a SHTF world your time is extremely valuable and you need to use it in the areas of foraging, defense, trapping, and working your ass of…no time for this radio stuff.
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
I cant stop laughing starting at 9:57
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
@yonny1954 Get started by buying a Shortwave radio and just listen and learn the hobby and see if it’s your thing. Worse case scenario, you don’t like the hobby and you can sell the radio and not lose a dollar.
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Great job Dave!! I had told you a while back that you should get into SW radio, you’re taking it a step further. Now, all we have to do is get you a SW Receiver at your home and you can do vids on that also – it would get you a whole lot of new viewers for sure.:-) Five Stars Dave!
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Will this be the way we will broadcast and receive news when there is an emergency TV, radio and internet blackout?
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
how do i get a ham license this looks like fun
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
cool video. This is one I really wanted to see. I had no idea they held something like that over there. Thanks again for putting videos like these up.
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
so what the hell is this good for?
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
is there a part 2 to this?
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
I would say if you want a radio buy an older radio or all band scanner and just listen in you will learn alot. Heck if you want to talk get a SingleSideBand CB channel 38 LowerSideBand. Local guys can tell you alot or. When the layer above earth is charged by solar storms. I have talked over 2000 miles away on CB LSB Ch38. Like he said lower Mhz 1.8 is =160 meter is long ,CB Mhz27=11meter,Mhz 50=6meter,144Mhz=2meter is short.Go to ARRL.org HAHA lucky you I’ am out of space. God bless Sir! 73
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Dave, Thanks for posting these radio videos. I have always thought HAM was interesting, but that it was a hobby in decline. I really don’t know anything about it at all other than I’ve listened to HAMS on my Sony 7600 shortwave radio. Use to listen to some guys at 3865kilohertz(have no idea what meter that is). More entertaining than television.
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
I have a cheese radio.
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
dsarti, I was wondering if you can help me out. What is the difference between regular UHF and VHF from Ham and is HAM 2-meter? Also….How do I go about getting my license. I heard its pretty tough.
Oh yeah another thing. I see radios that say 2-meter, 60-meter..etc. Whats the difference?
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Well I just love it but it seems so complicated, I would very much like to have a way to communicate but I really got intimidated by the by the jargon , have any ideas how to get started simply?
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
thats very cool,id never know how to read morse code
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
@Survivalist2008 OH…… I am a general KJ4VXJ so I am QRT an going to bed LOL
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
@dsarti1 Your Ham license. You’re a natural.
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
@dsarti1 The rich dude in the camper gave me a case of shack envy! Man, that is the way to do Field Day! But he can keep his cw–I never learned it either, so don’t feel bad. The code requirement for a ham license kept a lot of people out of ham radio for decades, glad it is gone now. I hope you show us more of your Field Day station. Did you make any contacts?
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
@Survivalist2008 my ticket???
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Great video. Thanks for taking interest and posting this vid. It’s a great way to introduce folks to ham radio. I’ve been a ham for 17 years. I spent most of the day today operating here on my station in the Field Day event. By the way, I’m also in the poverty bunch. Hillbilly, you need to get your ticket soon. Thanks.
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
I have never seen a ham radio hooked up to a computer, shows how much I know about that stuff. I thought the point of ham radios was so you could still keep in touch when the last microchip goes down. I had a ham radio in my truck but I never could get the dam thing to work.
July 26th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
It is ironic. Like a Ft900 to send dots and dashes to some guy in Italy. Good to have incase you want to keep tabs on the zombie attack in Europe. For field day I’ll walk down the sidewalk with my b.o.b. and ht. Now thats poor.