Any Ham Radio operators out there ?

[pineywoods]

Used to be W5AQM and DL4EB. haven't been active in many years
>>> radio transmitters can get into the computers in all the late model vehicles. does strange things, but I never heard of any physical damage.

[DR_Buck]

I have  50 watt 144/440 radios in both vehicles and a 100 HF rig in the truck.  The truck is a 2003 Ford F350 and the car is a 2005 Toyota Highlander.  I've had no interferience from either the vehicles into the radio or the radio into the vehicles.   All work fine without problems.   My "add-on" GPS in the truck causes some interference on select frequencies to the 2 meter band.

de K3SK

[Danny_S]

I have been having some fun with my new Yaesu FT-2800M mobile rig in the car... It as a 65 watt max output, which makes the difference in some of those hard spots. Really like operating 2 Meters, fun to see how far you can get from the high ground. Working on building a 3 element portable beam for playing around with.

73 for now VE9DKS

[cornbread]

Welcome to the Ham community Madman
I'm not a logger but(I do cut and split  my own fire wood if that counts) I have been licensed for 40 years.

[DR_Buck]

WOW       

   Thread resurfaced after being buried in the files for 4 1/2 years.

  By th way, I just stopped by the computer to take a quick look at new posts before sitting down to work some 20 meter DX   

de K3SK

[sandhills]

My dad and my cousin got licensed at the same time years ago, one is KA0ZPM and the other KA0ZPN don't remember for sure who is who, but I remember when dad set up his base radio and would listen for hours trying to write down and keep up with the morse code.  He was a radio operator in the army so he did pretty good, I couldn't even begin to.

[pineywoods]

I haven't been active in decades, w5aqm and dl4eb. Got stationed at an isolated base in germany, not much to do and no money, so I got my german ticket and had dad ship my stuff. We had an old buss body out behind the barracks, long wire antennas strung all over the place. Arranging a phone patch back to the states was good for lots of brownie points..

[John Mc]

I had a license back when I was 14 or so. My sign as a novice was WN8ZLL, if I recall correctly. It may have been switched to WB8ZLL sometime down the road. Novices were limited to Morse Code only back then. Is that still the case, or have things changed?

I've often thought about getting back in to it, but it's been 35 years... and I've got too many expensive hobbies already.

John Mc

[smwwoody]

A little active on 2 meter

KJ4WXC

Woody