Ham Radio

They're active from Ducie Island right now. I've only managed to pick them up on 20m so far.

This is my project and someone pointed out that it might be good to jitter the points by some set amount to help with privacy concerns some people might have. I want to know what the ham community thinks.

At least here in the US, it's very easy to look up someone's location based on their callsign already, unless they've opted for a PO box. I don't think jittering would affect the usefulness of the site in any major way as long as one can ascertain the general location of a node.

What does the community think? If so, how far out should the jittering me done?

https://www.packetradiomap.com

SOTA was the biggest reason I got into amateur radio. Love mixing radio/tech with getting out in the fresh air.

So what do you need to talk to a $100 billion space station? As it turns out, about $60 worth of stuff will do.

I love playing with packet, and I love playing with APRS. So how do I decide?

There’s quite a bit of both packet and APRS activity in the area. I don’t want to put up another antenna at the moment because funds won’t allow, otherwise I’d get another cheap 2m rig for APRS.

On packet, I occasionally check in with other hams and send messages. I mostly keep it running because my webmap at packetradiomap.com uses my radio to map locally received stations. I could modify the webmap to not use my radio though.

I feel running an APRS station is more “useful” though, as my area isn’t covered very well by iGates or digipeaters.

So if you had to choose, would you go full time APRS or packet?

I'm just curious what everyone's operating positions look like. If you feel comfortable, share a photo or two.

Here's mine. I'm really wanting some sort of shelving to sit the monitor's on to help tidy things up a bit. I'm not too handy though, so it'll be an adventure. The autotuner controller drives me crazy because it won't sit flat due to the heavy coax coming into the back.

Looks like the last post is a year old. Are there any hams/amateur radio operators here on lemmy? If so, what projects (if any) are you working on? I'm building a 5 element yagi for 2m.

Quiz yourself on the official questions of the American ham radio license exams, track your progress, focus on challenging questions, and take randomly generated practice exams. The most up to date questions provided, outdated questions also available. Fork of Funktrainer by D.Meyer.

Location, call sign, interests, level, whatever

Why is it called HAM radio? What does HAM stand for?

I'd love to add more resources; the German version is fleshed out a bit more. Feel free to link resources for starting here and I'll add them :)