Ham Radio

I love playing with packet, and I love playing with APRS. So how do I decide?

There’s quite a bit of both packet and APRS activity in the area. I don’t want to put up another antenna at the moment because funds won’t allow, otherwise I’d get another cheap 2m rig for APRS.

On packet, I occasionally check in with other hams and send messages. I mostly keep it running because my webmap at packetradiomap.com uses my radio to map locally received stations. I could modify the webmap to not use my radio though.

I feel running an APRS station is more “useful” though, as my area isn’t covered very well by iGates or digipeaters.

So if you had to choose, would you go full time APRS or packet?

I'm just curious what everyone's operating positions look like. If you feel comfortable, share a photo or two.

Here's mine. I'm really wanting some sort of shelving to sit the monitor's on to help tidy things up a bit. I'm not too handy though, so it'll be an adventure. The autotuner controller drives me crazy because it won't sit flat due to the heavy coax coming into the back.

Looks like the last post is a year old. Are there any hams/amateur radio operators here on lemmy? If so, what projects (if any) are you working on? I'm building a 5 element yagi for 2m.

Quiz yourself on the official questions of the American ham radio license exams, track your progress, focus on challenging questions, and take randomly generated practice exams. The most up to date questions provided, outdated questions also available. Fork of Funktrainer by D.Meyer.

Location, call sign, interests, level, whatever

Why is it called HAM radio? What does HAM stand for?

I'd love to add more resources; the German version is fleshed out a bit more. Feel free to link resources for starting here and I'll add them :)