Ham Radios...

[TarnishedAngel5]

Aren't they cool? HAM Radios I mean. I have a friend who has one and uses it a lot...anyone got any ideas where I could get one cheap? Does anyone even know what a HAM radio is here? Or are you all stuck on just cars?

 

[Cobraking]

What is a ham radio?

 

[TarnishedAngel5]

Originally posted by Cobraking
What is a ham radio?

*Smacks head* Oh my goodness...you're kidding me!

 

[Cobraking]

No im not1

 

[SkylineObsession]

Edible radios?

 

[TarnishedAngel5]

A HAM Radio is actually a radio that was used duing like ww1 and 2 and stuff. It's made on a lower (?) frequency I think. Loads of people use them..basically to talk to other people way across the country.

 

[Cobraking]

Without paying

 

[TarnishedAngel5]

You guys are so thick...I can't believe this...but then not everyone has a high intellect like I do...

 

[TarnishedAngel5]

Originally posted by Cobraking
Without paying

Except for generators and stuff. They use them a bunch in disasters too...so you can communicate without electricity.

 

[SkylineObsession]

I don't know that much about cars either, so i'm thicker than a mile of solid concrete.

 

[Cobraking]

thats so old skool, i wouldnt buy one unless u payed me.

 

[TarnishedAngel5]

Now I ask you again: Does ANYONE have any ideas on where I can get a HAM radio cheap, on account of the fact that I don't have much moolah?

 

[Viper_Maniac]

Ham radios? My dad is into that stuff. Plus many of his friends who he met on there.

 

[SkylineObsession]

Have you tried searching on Google?

 

[bigwhlkid]

try a radio equipment store, pawn shop, or a old electronics shop.

mmmmm...... HAM.

 

[Spock]

HAm... RAdio? i like ham but hate radio, al they play is crap music , qualitywise

 

[vat_man]

Think audio only, primitive internet.

When I was at high school many years ago a guy actually built his own FM broadcast aerial and used to send out short little tranmissions. He didn't have a whole lot of power so it was pretty short range. Pretty funny, too, when you find out just how illegal it is do that.

 

[1X83Z]

This thread is absurd.

Cobraking - he's not even a teenager yet, no surprise - doesn't know what amateur/ham radio is. You can't really expect him to, it's decently obsolete in this generation, and there rarely (I can think of a few) any references to it in normal life.

But then it's explained to him - by somebody clearly as equally inept - as:

A HAM Radio is actually a radio that was used duing like ww1 and 2 and stuff.

Am I expecting too much? I like the first part of that:

A HAM Radio is actually a radio

Whoa! No kidding?

 

[Cobraboy]

Am I right in saying the film 'Frequency' used one?

 

[GilesGuthrie]

Originally posted by Cobraboy
Am I right in saying the film 'Frequency' used one?

Couldn't comment on that, but anyone who's seen the beginning of "Contact" should know what a HAM Radio is.

Vat_Man: At boarding school a friend and I built an FM transmitter, which was, off a 9v battery, powerful enough to burn out a major national radio station within the radius of our boarding house. We ran our own pirate station on Radio 1's frequency for about three nights. Then we got bored.

 

[1X83Z]

Originally posted by Cobraboy
Am I right in saying the film 'Frequency' used one?

Yep.

 

[TarnishedAngel5]

Originally posted by M5Power
This thread is absurd.

Cobraking - he's not even a teenager yet, no surprise - doesn't know what amateur/ham radio is. You can't really expect him to, it's decently obsolete in this generation, and there rarely (I can think of a few) any references to it in normal life.

But then it's explained to him - by somebody clearly as equally inept - as:



Am I expecting too much? I like the first part of that:



Whoa! No kidding?

Shove it.

 

[TarnishedAngel5]

Alright, now that at least some of you know what HAM radio is, how about info on getting a licence?

 

[Josh]

Originally posted by TarnishedAngel5
Alright, now that at least some of you know what HAM radio is, how about info on getting a licence?

Google.com is your best friend.

 

[Rossell]

HAM Radios operate without electricity? Sounds perfect if your hungry also.

 

[1X83Z]

Originally posted by TarnishedAngel5
Alright, now that at least some of you know what HAM radio is, how about info on getting a licence?

So you can communicate with the troops of World War 1?

http://www.arrl.org/hamradio.html

 

[milefile]

There is a HAM Radio community distributed all over the world. From what I gather the attraction is being able to talk to people not only on the other side of your country but the other side of the planet. All sorts of variables come into play and sometimes they work better than others. I guess there's clubs and they keep track of all the places they've talked to, like a status symbol in their world.

I'd think a site like this would be the perfect place to bring up something so incredibly nerdy. It's just a hobby. Most hobbies are useless in any practical sense but at least HAM Radio has a potential for usefulness.

And you get those cool special license plates.

 

[1X83Z]

Originally posted by milefile


And you get those cool special license plates.

Yeah, but Arizona gets the cool ones with the slash zero.

 

[rjensen11]

Originally posted by TarnishedAngel5
A HAM Radio is actually a radio that was used duing like ww1 and 2 and stuff. It's made on a lower (?) frequency I think. Loads of people use them..basically to talk to other people way across the country.

Low frequencies, correct

And people use them to talk to people around the world, not just across the country. My uncle has/had(don't know which it is now) one, and he could communicate with people in Germany or something from in the middle of Wisconsin.

 

[mayorbill11]

yes, aren't those licence plates with VE3XXX on them or whatever? i've never really been into radio or communications so i don't know much about ham (or HAM?) radios.

as for pop culture, patty and/or selma had a HAM radio in one episode of the simpsons.