I've been using two Android apps to prepare for the Technician test, HamStudy and Ham Test Prep. HamStudy is the better study, I think, but Ham Test Prep presents the study in test format, so you can see if you can pass randomized 35 question test formats...Guess mine is old enough to not have been locked, but alas I still really need to schedule my test so I can actually transmit anything with it at all. So far I've just been monitoring, but honestly not hearing much.
Correct. Only through the computer can you program the Alpha-numeric tags.I've only ever programmed my Baofeng radios using Chirp; thought it might be worth learning to save to memory channels on the keypad...
Am I correct that there is no way to give channels alphanumeric names from the keypad?
I took an online sample test and passed it no problem. Way back in the day I was pretty into radio and wireless so the wavelength calcs and such I'm still pretty clear on. I'd prepared to take the test a few times in the past decades, just never got off my butt and did it. There were a few questions in there that showed me I definitely forgot some things, so I appreciate the heads up on those apps.I've been using two Android apps to prepare for the Technician test, HamStudy and Ham Test Prep. HamStudy is the better study, I think, but Ham Test Prep presents the study in test format, so you can see if you can pass randomized 35 question test formats...
I don't have any problem with the electrical, and I understand the antenna and wavelength stuff, but the non-sensical regulations hit me in my weak point... memory. My short term is good, but for this kind of stuff my long term is bad! I'll be doing practice tests till 15 minutes before I take the test...I took an online sample test and passed it no problem. Way back in the day I was pretty into radio and wireless so the wavelength calcs and such I'm still pretty clear on. I'd prepared to take the test a few times in the past decades, just never got off my butt and did it. There were a few questions in there that showed me I definitely forgot some things, so I appreciate the heads up on those apps.
I probably should have never sold my old Yaesu FT-101e, it was a cool old rig. I might have accidentally used it to transmit on 11m at one point in time.
I had that radio about 20 years ago. Wish I had kept it. It was a great rig.I took an online sample test and passed it no problem. Way back in the day I was pretty into radio and wireless so the wavelength calcs and such I'm still pretty clear on. I'd prepared to take the test a few times in the past decades, just never got off my butt and did it. There were a few questions in there that showed me I definitely forgot some things, so I appreciate the heads up on those apps.
I probably should have never sold my old Yaesu FT-101e, it was a cool old rig. I might have accidentally used it to transmit on 11m at one point in time.
Same. For the regulations and procedures sections I just memorized the answers. Don't even know what the questions werethe non-sensical regulations hit me in my weak point
What does the FCC do if you talk on a HAM radio without a license?
Beware the ire of the sad HAMs...
What does the FCC do if you talk on a HAM radio without a license?
Beware the ire of the sad HAMs...
He has some good videos and gets generally high marks on his reviewslol dude is a hoot.
Ew, digital is gross. It's a bunch of competing specifications that are mostly proprietary (arguably illegal because of that) and don't interoperate well or at all. Also, people keep using a radio link to some local mmdvm-like gateway for the first ten feet, and route the rest of the internet. Which is exactly what you don't want to use for something you're going to rely on in an emergency.Another nice thing about the FT-70d specifically is it's digital mode. The digital audio quality is much better than FM, and it works over longer distances as the radio can still pickup and decode the signal right at the noise floor. I really wish there was a $30-$50 digital option as I could get more people into digital radio if there were.
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It's absurdly easy to unlock them. Hold PTT, monitor, and VFO (I think it's those three) while turning the power on.Probably depends on where you get them, too. Buddy of mine got a pair of UV-5r off Amazon a couple months ago and they were gimped.
I bet if you order them fresh off the boat from Aliexpress they are fine
That's right, far as I know. You can program pretty much everything else though. https://miklor.com/ has some good cheat sheets that get right to how to program with the keypad. Like this: http://www.miklor.com/COM/UV_ProgMem.php (go to the site root to get a list of radios to see how to program yours)Am I correct that there is no way to give channels alphanumeric names from the keypad?
Ew, digital is gross. It's a bunch of competing specifications that are mostly proprietary (arguably illegal because of that) and don't interoperate well or at all. Also, people keep using a radio link to some local mmdvm-like gateway for the first ten feet, and route the rest of the internet. Which is exactly what you don't want to use for something you're going to rely on in an emergency.