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- What can you do with a ham radio license?
- Disaster Communication
- ARES
- Public Service
- Good excuse to play with weird forms of operation
- Internet-free communications
- No encryption, but digital modes all over
- Insane propagation: moonbounce, greyline, tropospheric ducting
- ARES
- Disaster Communication
- Good first things to do when you get your license
- Get a radio
- Nearly any one will do at the beginning
- If you're tech, no point in getting an HF rig, because you can't use it
- Get an HT, because you might actually bring it with you (e.g., to cons)
- One really cheap good one: Baofeng (also moddable, link to pages)
- You don't need all the accessories. A rubber duck antenna is just fine to start.
- OK, maybe just one: for con use, an acoustic tube headset is nice for comfort / not annoying others
- Connect to your local ham community
- Mostly older, but at least get on a repeater
- How to find repeaters in your area
- Note: some repeaters will be inactive. Think of them like forums that no one uses.
- Connect to your local ARES team
- Not least because these tend to be younger, more tech-savvy people
- Get a radio
- Neat projects made possible with a ham license
- Kristin (nee Chris) Paget - RFID long-range
- Michael Ossmann - Fucking everything (but link to HackRF preso somewhere)
- Ultra-range WiFi (find a project of this)