KC2ZUF here -- HN lurker, active ham.
KC2ZUF here -- HN lurker, active ham. I am going to nth the recommendation to purchase a used HF transceiver. When I got my license I took the approach you did. However, the challenge is the easy/inexpensive radios to build are mostly CW (morse code) only. Learning CW is fun, but it's one more barrier, and will keep you away from other interesting ham radio activities (like digital modes). There are solid SSB/AM/etc transceiver kits (like the Elecraft ones someone else mentioned) but they are much more expensive. The homebrew ones also tend to be lower power, which is fun, but will make it much more frustrating to try to make your first contacts. A straightforward project I recently completed was to build a TNC Pi ( http://tnc-x.com/TNCPi.htm ). That will only require a VHF radio, and you'll get to put the kit together and (likely) make your own connector cable.
Posted by kc2zuf on Apr 27, 2015, 2:34 PM
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Yeah PC was a horrible platform before Win2k, but there was a beautiful short time period when we had alternatives like Amiga, Atari, NeX...
Living in a 200+ year old house, I've seen a lot of this first-hand through both planned and unplanned renovations and repairs.
Is anything with the pebble time able to capture heart rate for historical data analysis?
Datastar has evolved into a suite of tools [1].
> real issue is that MSG is basically a public utility.
Everything good is a slippery slope: every step in the right direction is bad if you overshoot.
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KC2ZUF here -- HN lurker, active ham.
KC2ZUF here -- HN lurker, active ham. I am going to nth the recommendation to purchase a used HF transceiver. When I got my license I took the approach you did. However, the challenge is the easy/inexpensive radios to build are mostly CW (morse code) only. Learning CW is fun, but it's one more barrier, and will keep you away from other interesting ham radio activities (like digital modes). There are solid SSB/AM/etc transceiver kits (like the Elecraft ones someone else mentioned) but they are much more expensive. The homebrew ones also tend to be lower power, which is fun, but will make it much more frustrating to try to make your first contacts. A straightforward project I recently completed was to build a TNC Pi ( http://tnc-x.com/TNCPi.htm ). That will only require a VHF radio, and you'll get to put the kit together and (likely) make your own connector cable.
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