MrWeetabix
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Registered: 10-2009
Location: East UK
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Re: Callsigns
I've had my ticket for 14 years now (jesus, I feel old, and I'm not even 30 yet! haha).
I find myself 80% of the time on 11m these days, as the relentless contests on HF and the doddery old buggers on 2m have sapped any passion I had for those bands. I use PSK31 on HF mostly, but beyond that, HAM radio just doesn't excite me as 11m does.
Long Live 11m and the good old days of being a PIRATE!
YYAARRGHHH!!!!!!
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13/Jun/2012, 12:51 pm
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SkipShooter
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Re: Callsigns
Old post I know, but I love Whitesticks words of wisdom. I really do. I am a Ham tech, and although I love radio, I really find comfort in 11 meters. I just can't add anything more to what whitestick has already said.
Cheers Brother
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14/Sep/2013, 4:44 am
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2FB059
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Registered: 11-2019
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Re: Callsigns
Agreed on all. I'm also a licensed amateur, but it just boggles my mind how much so many hams get triggered whenever they hear "CB" or "11m". When asked why, they complain about all the foul language and abusive behavior. Sure, there's some of that, but many of us don't associate with it. We run like hams, just without the FCC-issued callsign.
The best response is to point them to 7200khz, 14,310 (or whatever it is on 20m - sorry if I've got that freq wrong) and just about anywhere on 75m and ask them what they think about the foul language and abusive behavior there. At least where I live, that's far worse than I what I hear from local CB operators - they mostly run things clean and respectably.
I can't help but think about a quote by Jack Nicholson's character in the film Easy Rider:
They'll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.
--- I see many sunspots in your future.
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11/May/2020, 10:21 pm
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MrFidget
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Registered: 09-2018
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Re: Callsigns
I just tell them to complain to the ham operators on 11m. Here in Aus, most of our riffraff went up to 477MHz UHF CB. 11m is full of hams operating IC7300s with the diode popped
In all seriousness, I can think of 3 operators who don’t have a ham license and one of those is going for his finally after giving up his “experimenters license” that gave him an “access all areas” pass, after they jacked the price up from $200ish a year to well over $2K a year !!
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8/Aug/2020, 9:03 am
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