Radio Preppers

General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: gil on October 14, 2013, 10:34:10 PM

Title: Ham Radio for Dummies.
Post by: gil on October 14, 2013, 10:34:10 PM
I thought this was pretty good for new-to-radio guys:

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/ham-radio-for-dummies-cheat-sheet.html (http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/ham-radio-for-dummies-cheat-sheet.html)

Looking at the Tech license privileges, I see that CW gets you a lot of bandwidth in HF.

Gil.
Title: Re: Ham Radio for Dummies.
Post by: KK0G on October 14, 2013, 11:49:22 PM
Quote from: gil on October 14, 2013, 10:34:10 PM
Looking at the Tech license privileges, I see that CW gets you a lot of bandwidth in HF.


Sure does ;)


No doubt the overwhelming majority of techs never transmit outside the VHF/UHF bands but surprisingly I've worked several on 40 meter CW.