Purchased my first ham radio

[Neohistory]

It’s a baofeng BF-F8hp. I decided to do this as I think it would be a good idea for me personally to learn how to use ham. Don’t have a license but I’m not transmitting. I’ve messed around with it for about a week now, and I’ve really enjoyed it. Anyone else here into ham?

 

[Tall Timbers]

I used to have a radio that could pick up ham frequencies. I enjoyed listening to folks. I picked up a lot out of Russia when I was in Europe. I fried the radio the morning after I arrived to a European country and had the wrong settings on it for the power for where I was at. I really liked that radio...

 

[Armor of Light]

Back in the late early 70's to mid 80's I was in to CB radio and one of my big base units had a ham receiver built into it and also had sideband that was interesting. Still have a mobile CB that I have not installed or used in 40 years. Back then you could bounce your signal off the atmosphere and talk to people all over the world, some were regulars on the air and the signal was so good you could have conversations of 5-10 minutes before the conditions would decline and you lose that signal, was lots of fun. Had received hundreds of post cards at a POBox at the Post Office from folks all over the world, fun hobby.

 

[Wally]

I used to DX in my youth. I tried to learn CW but I was too slow. Eventually they removed that requirement.

I almost went mobile, I passed the practice novice HAM test, but Wife' decided a Nikoa cell was the better purchase.

I still disagree with her on that, maybe I'll send her a text on my tracphone ...

 

[Medowmuffin]

It’s a baofeng BF-F8hp. I decided to do this as I think it would be a good idea for me personally to learn how to use ham. Don’t have a license but I’m not transmitting. I’ve messed around with it for about a week now, and I’ve really enjoyed it. Anyone else here into ham?

I just received mine from Amazon. Going to find a club and start taking online study tests.

 

[SkyRider]

Kind of weird that Miss Piggy would even get into radio but I'll have to check it out.

 

[GotGrace]

It’s a baofeng BF-F8hp. I decided to do this as I think it would be a good idea for me personally to learn how to use ham. Don’t have a license but I’m not transmitting. I’ve messed around with it for about a week now, and I’ve really enjoyed it. Anyone else here into ham?

I always thought being a ham operator would be totally cool.

 

[Carl]

I worked on R390's in the Army. I could tune mine to 20 : 1 signal to noise at 1 microvolt input. I don't think they even rate radios that way anymore. I have an emergency radio that is AM, FM, short wave, and weather. Cannot tune it to stop the hiss. In an emergency that is what I would want to hear is HISS!