Pretty much anything you do with a handheld is going to be LOS unless you get a repeater involved. Or possibly HF at night.

Basically yeah. Radio seems a little dead in jacksonville, especially APRS, and I'd love to get reliable aprs running.

Ham is dead for the most part

All the aprs stations are far from me.

Then what's replaced it?

zoomers with fengs

The internet

....that's ham @uzidead

shrug

@All UCP Everything
Long term goal is to get man portable Morse transceiver stations between two teams for long distance comms

@All UCP Everything wat

I’m still practicing my Morse

neat

I’m going to take AE next month

@j e F f neat pants. Eat burger and lift heavy things more

The internet and cell phones made ham even more niche than it already was

HAM is more robust than the internet. It should make a comeback among younger people serious about prepping.

It’s just people who like dicking with electronics and prepper/m word types now

Tf you want @yergo

@tacticoolyourjets that ain't mine

Right, but ham is p2p and/or adhoc, and in the case of aprs and other increasingly popular protocols, includes the internet.

And just buying ham capable baofengs doesn't cut it

Digital comms is the future

Get a dual if you can

Digital is pretty tight

Keep in mind that even a baofeng becomes a digital radio with a cable and an Android device.

https://youtu.be/vtexMEqAuZ0

This video is a good intro to HAM shit

Baofengs have downsides but they're still very useful, especially for beginners.

Yea if its just gonna live on your rig id say its more than fine

Id like one for kit and one for the truck

Can't wait for affordable handheld SDRs running Android though.

Any other discords worth joining? I was in the STALKER discord a while back, but now I'm only in this one

SDR is tight

which stalker one

@tacticoolyourjets what state

I've got an rtl sdr, it's great. You can RX on almost any frequency for $30.

I have the nooelec

It’s bad ass

Any of you guys on DMR

Dmr?