Comments on: I Did It! I Got My Ham Radio License!

By: Joanna Pineda

Joanna Pineda — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:47:53 +0000

I am indeed still on the air as KA4JMP. I tend to use the Mount Vernon repeater in the morning and afternoon drives to and from work. I also try to join the Tuesday night Net check-ins.

What’s your handle? Talk to you sometime!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:23:00 +0000

I just got my Tech license this evening.. I hope you are still on the air this blog is a few years old.

By: Tyler H.

Tyler H. — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 02:06:05 +0000

I got my call just 8 days before you. I enjoy the hobby alot. Hope to hear you on air sometime.
73 to all hams reading this.
Happy new year!

By: Joanna M. Pineda

Joanna M. Pineda — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:40:07 +0000

Russ, you are so right! I didn’t even blog about all the cool things that hams can do! Talk to the astronauts on the space station?! Bounce your voice off the moon?! Ridiculously cool stuff!

I attended a ham radio club meeting yesterday and now I’m inspired to make a kit!

By: Russell Magnuson

Russell Magnuson — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:10:35 +0000

>> …amateur radio felt like a dusty and obsolete hobby

True! Though why is that? In addition to the community service and social aspects you note, what OTHER hobby can you experience and experiment with real science and various natural phenomena so directly? Play with real electronics and design of systems that can communicate around the world? Or send something like your voice to the moon and back? Play with real satellites? Maybe even talk to astronauts? Develop a new technology or refine and improve an existing one?

I don’t know… but after I studied and got back into it (thanks to some encouragement from friends :-) it didn’t seem so dusty and obsolete any more…

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:20:10 +0000

This is so neat. Congratulations!