OK, so who is a HAM?

[Steve M]

WA2ORU/4
Icom 706MKIIG
Kenwood TS140S
25yrs

[TonyHouk]

My Pops is.
His call sign is KB4QI. I know he has been doing it since he was a teenager. I don't know what level he holds. Happy sails, Tony

[baldbaby2000]

WI0C

Been a ham for 36 years. Still using the Heathkit HW-101 SSB HF transceiver that I built when I was in high school. Also have old stuff from my dad. Narrow band FM HF stuff.

Wife is also a ham and we have Yeasu 2M FT-1500s in our vehicles.

[HERNDON]

WB6COT

Yaesu FT-897

36 years ..Novice at 12. Still have the Heath HW-16 but
sold my HW-101 that I built in High School .
HW 202, HW 2036.


Hallicrafter SX-100 which belonged to My Dad.
Wife is a ham. We use to use 2 meters to communicate.
Now its 800 Mhz (cell)

Any body ever listen to the Pacific Seafarer's net 14.300 .
Interesting to plot lat/long, bearing, wind and vessel speed.

Rob

[baldbaby2000]

Herdon,
A friend of mine is sailing around the Florida Keys and mentioned a net on 14.300. Do you know if there are scheduled times for different areas?

[Sloop John B]

Good God.

All day I have hams come on my radio. Red necks and thoroughbreds. Most ham operators are real ding bats now a days.

Lets get off this and you guys find another web site to shoot the bull.

[Steve M]

Good God.

All day I have hams come on my radio. Red necks and thoroughbreds. Most ham operators are real ding bats now a days.

Lets get off this and you guys find another web site to shoot the bull.

Hey JohnSloooop, GET A LIFE.

[jmdefino]

WB3BBJ (Big Bad John)

formerly WA2AJU

Also had first repeater in the Poconos years ago - WR3AEX

Advanced class
Amateur for 40 years

[Steve M]

The net on 14.300 mhz is the Maritime mobile net and is on 24hrs (when the band is open.)

[mgg4]

N5EIH, now located in California. Was licensed while stationed at Tinker AFB in Oklahoma.

Not really active much any longer. I have an HW-101 HF/SSB rig with an antenna tuner (also Heathkit, but I don't remember the model). I have a couple of Kenwood TS-2400 2M HTs, but the batteries on these are so old they won't hold a charge any longer.

I also have a 2-M moble/base unit (actually a modified commercial radio) that I used for 2-M packet.

But like I said, it has been a while since I've been active on the air.

--Mark

[Chip]

Although John appears to have a predilection for cynicism and vitriol, am I the only one who finds some of his negative commentary hilarious?

No offense to the HAMs.

[HERNDON]

http://ssca.org/Net/Net.htm

link to website with nets/schedules.

[Bill ( My Pleasure)]

My call is KB6YH (advanced class) Used to have a Commercial Radio-telephone License. Got my novice license in 1958. I think it takes a real dingbat to classify an entire group of people as being "dingbats". Might be a person that couldn't pass the tests, maybe not. If he has trouble hearing hams on his radio when he doesn't want to hear them he can ask a ham for help. Many hams spend much of their time providing communication for public service events. It's a good hobby that can keep a person interested for years. (for me over 47 years). Just like sailing, there is always more to learn. Many telecomunication methods that are used today were originally developed by hams. I have learned new methods of communicating via radio in the last few months. I have even used my ham radio knowledge to help a few people on this forum. Don't judge all the hams by a few bad apples. All groups have some bad apples, but the majority of hams are good guys. I've met hundreds of them from all over the world.Once I talked via Morse code to the winner of a round the world, single handed, sailboat race using my ham radio while he was in a storm in the Atlantic during the race. There are lots of sailors that communicate with ham radios.

[Catigale]

Not a Ham operator, but would pick this up if I cruised long term of course.

Dont mind this thread at all since its clearly labelled...if you aint interested then dont click....

[Steve M]

By his avatar it seems that he has some thing stuck up his a#@$$ permanently and this causes him to be a sour puss with no life.
Hams have saved countless lives over time and are known to guid mariners (even j. Sloooops) to safety.
Ham radio and sailing go hand in hand.
You no likee de thread, you no readeee it.