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Do you have your amateur radio license yet, /pol/? Do you have at least a small radio "rig" and antenna with a backup power supply for disasters? Can you send and receive Morse code at 40 words per minute or more? If not, you should start - amateur ("ham") radio is very useful skill and can introduce you to things like basic electronics, how to build your own radio devices/antennae, applied math like trigonometry, and Morse-coding.
With the modern proliferation of cheap Chinese radio gear (and the ability to make your own powerful antennas out of cheap basic parts), ham radio has never been more affordable, even for NEETs.
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What's the point tho?
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>>136112879
To learn once and for all if traps are really gay.
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I'm the hambro who lurks the skyking threads to shill for the radio hobby. While I do have a rig, quite a bunch of batteries, and solar capability, I'm still working on code fluency, I cheat and use a keyboard and the en/decoder in my KX3 most of the time still. It's awfully embarrassing but I can at least admit it anonymously. I always admit it if the other ham mentions something like 'your code is so perfect' nudge nudge.
I prefer to use Jap HT's and US-made HF gear, but I have a bit of money knocking around. To get started the cheap Chinese stuff is fine, but try to find something as rugged as pic related from China, you won't. They also don't make APRS radios.
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I understand it can be fun to make your own radio from the basic components on, but then what ? You lurk police, air, marine-communications ? You talk with other radio enthusiasts like some kind of IRC ?
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