Comments on: Local Hams Take To The Airwaves For Amateur Radio Field Day, Practicing Emergency Communications http://www.northescambia.com/2024/06/local-hams-take-to-the-airwaves-for-amateur-radio-field-day-practicing-emergency-communications-2 Local News for Molino, Bratt, McDavid, Century, Walnut Hill, Cantonment Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:54:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Shellie http://www.northescambia.com/2024/06/local-hams-take-to-the-airwaves-for-amateur-radio-field-day-practicing-emergency-communications-2/comment-page-1#comment-545558 Shellie Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:11:54 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=552725#comment-545558 Dang-it, Please check out the SARE Southern Amateur Radio Union. The next meeting will be July 8 at 6 at the clubhouse at 100 Blackshear Rd, Brewton. We also have an active facebook page. We will be happy to help you get into radio. Dang-it,
Please check out the SARE Southern Amateur Radio Union. The next meeting will be July 8 at 6 at the clubhouse at 100 Blackshear Rd, Brewton. We also have an active facebook page. We will be happy to help you get into radio.

]]> By: A ham’s wife http://www.northescambia.com/2024/06/local-hams-take-to-the-airwaves-for-amateur-radio-field-day-practicing-emergency-communications-2/comment-page-1#comment-545178 A ham’s wife Mon, 24 Jun 2024 12:52:43 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=552725#comment-545178 My husband is a ham radio operator and loves it. While I don't find an interest in it I do enjoy watching him and his comrades do their thing. It’s definitely a dying art that I hope will find new life in the next generation. It's a valuable asset and I've seen many times where it has come through when modern technology wasn't able to. Thank you for sharing. My husband is a ham radio operator and loves it. While I don’t find an interest in it I do enjoy watching him and his comrades do their thing. It’s definitely a dying art that I hope will find new life in the next generation. It’s a valuable asset and I’ve seen many times where it has come through when modern technology wasn’t able to. Thank you for sharing.

]]> By: Scobie Wilcoxon http://www.northescambia.com/2024/06/local-hams-take-to-the-airwaves-for-amateur-radio-field-day-practicing-emergency-communications-2/comment-page-1#comment-545168 Scobie Wilcoxon Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:41:50 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=552725#comment-545168 @Dave-there are some vintage tube-type radios still out there and they still work quite well. However, almost 100% of all electronics are solid-state, these days. There will be some issues, but there are ways to protect equipment. @Teresa, @Dang-it, we’d love to have you join the hobby. Check out www.arrl.org for lots of information about Amateur Radio. Go to www.hamstudy.org for a glimpse of the tests for the different classes of license. Both of the groups, in the articles, conduct classes and testing. The Five Flags ARA has a website: https://www.w4uc.org. The Southern Amateur Radio Union has a Facebook page. @Dave-there are some vintage tube-type radios still out there and they still work quite well. However, almost 100% of all electronics are solid-state, these days. There will be some issues, but there are ways to protect equipment.

@Teresa, @Dang-it, we’d love to have you join the hobby. Check out http://www.arrl.org for lots of information about Amateur Radio. Go to http://www.hamstudy.org for a glimpse of the tests for the different classes of license.

Both of the groups, in the articles, conduct classes and testing.

The Five Flags ARA has a website: https://www.w4uc.org.

The Southern Amateur Radio Union has a Facebook page.

]]> By: Dang-it http://www.northescambia.com/2024/06/local-hams-take-to-the-airwaves-for-amateur-radio-field-day-practicing-emergency-communications-2/comment-page-1#comment-545159 Dang-it Mon, 24 Jun 2024 03:18:03 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=552725#comment-545159 Didn't get to make it out there this event.. Is there someone I can consult with about getting started? Thanks Didn’t get to make it out there this event.. Is there someone
I can consult with about getting started? Thanks

]]> By: Teresa George http://www.northescambia.com/2024/06/local-hams-take-to-the-airwaves-for-amateur-radio-field-day-practicing-emergency-communications-2/comment-page-1#comment-545126 Teresa George Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:01:09 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=552725#comment-545126 Ham operators are a fasinating people. They come from all walks of life. I am so thrilled they still are out there. In emergency situations. As a child i would listen to my friends father on his he would talk to people around the world. I am seriously concidering purchasing my own system. You never know when it can even save a life. Hello out there! Teresa G. Ham operators are a fasinating people. They come from all walks of life. I am so thrilled they still are out there. In emergency situations. As a child i would listen to my friends father on his he would talk to people around the world. I am seriously concidering purchasing my own system. You never know when it can even save a life.
Hello out there!
Teresa G.

]]> By: dave lamb http://www.northescambia.com/2024/06/local-hams-take-to-the-airwaves-for-amateur-radio-field-day-practicing-emergency-communications-2/comment-page-1#comment-545123 dave lamb Sun, 23 Jun 2024 15:46:22 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=552725#comment-545123 if HAM Operators are stil using tube equipment, then during a nuclear strike they will be the only communications in the whole us. Modern equip will nt be operational. if HAM Operators are stil using tube equipment, then during a nuclear strike they will be the only communications in the whole us. Modern equip will nt be operational.

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