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Out of curiosity, I took a general practice test with zero prep the other day and got maybe five questions right so I didn't think I should waste the test team's time today. I'll study for it and try in a few weeks once I've got that work cert knocked out. Ouch, you're not kidding. I've bought motorcycles for less than some of the base transceivers I saw over at DX Engineering. Though to be fair, one of the bikes was like $600 and was older than me. We bought a bag of split pea soup mix to make with leftover ham from Christmas, and then we forgot to make it.

It took a while, but after looking at a variety of other options, I finally decided to get that 3rd brake light antenna mount purchased and installed. It was a little expensive, but it is working very well and I'm pretty happy with it so far! The pics below show it with a dual band 2m/70cm antenna. I've also used it simplex on GMRS with a very small Tram antenna with good results. Thanks again to all who provided constructive feedback on the topic!

Congratulations on the test and welcome. Let me know if you hear a good recipe for navy bean soup. It’s my favorite ham soup

Make sure he sells you periods and not decimal points.

comma, comma, comma

Congratulations on the new license. Yes, General is a fairly easy upgrade but be careful as the toys are expensive.

Probably more money to be made on capitals.

I sell punctuation cheap. Contact me for pricing.

Be warned, where to get the best pizza seems to bring out hams on 2m repeaters. Congrats. Got for General ASAP, it is no harder to do than Tech and there is overlap in the question pool, you could already accidentally pass it on a lucky day.

Seasonal allegories never bothered me until two years ago. I dread when late feb early may comes around. My wife used to deal with allegories then about 5 years ago just out of the blue the allegories never bothers her anymore. .. Weird how the imune system works.

Cringe.

Thanks! I'm excited. There's a couple of amateur radio clubs in the area and I might be in range of their repeaters. I was also reading about POTA, which sounds kind of cool given the number of state parks and USFS land around here. (Not a lot of SOTA activity in Indiana, unsurprisingly.) The GMRS repeater stays pretty active with a handful of locals. I thought the french onion soup thing was funny - I didn't have my GMRS license yet so I couldn't discuss broccoli cheddar soup supremacy.

You can read everything on here without registering. You can even ask questions like you just did as a guest. I’d start with reading part 95 of the fcc regs. It will tell you what gmrs is and how it should be used. Gmrs is a tool. It’s a radio service for friends and family (people you know already) to use while doing an activity. Hiking, hunting, fishing, going to the mall, off roading, cycling, caravaning, farming, ranching, ……. The list goes on. So if you do anything with people where you need radio communications it’s the service for you and at $35 for 10 yeas and no treat and radios starting at $20 it’s pretty easy for most to get into. what gmrs is not is a hobby, a way to male “contacts” with strange men, ham lite, a get as many radios ass you can afford and barely use them, chit chat about radios on repeaters….. it may or may not be a good service for emerge comms depending on how you use it and what you expect from it.

sounds like a reasonable solution ...

Urushiol dermatitis is a phenomenon of repeated exposures. Almost nobody has an outbreak the first time they encounter poison oak/ivy, but repeated exposures sensitize the immune system to react more strongly each time. That's why so many people report that they never had it as a kid but have developed it later in life.

I was recently introduced to the GMRS environment and have a family member allowing me to utilize his call sign while I test the waters and was wondering if this was ever introduced as a possibility? Was looking forward to learning from this community.

That is very cool! Congratulations! You’ll hear conversations on the ham bands like that too, but you’ll have a LOT more places to go to get away from them.

I've been listening to the old dudes on the local GMRS repeater talk about french onion soup and basketball (separate conversations) for too long and decided I need different soup conversations*, so I took my technician exam today. Got 33/35. Thanks, hamstudy.org! The proctoring team told me I should study for the general while this test still fresh, so that's the next goal. I have a certification exam I need to study for at work, but... that's not as much fun. *the french onion soup conversation was the first thing I heard on the local repeater but the actual catalyst for getting an amateur radio license was I managed to catch some transmissions from the ISS a couple of nights ago. I was reading about how you could contact the ISS on 2m/70cm bands and then discovered the ISS was directly overhead. Ran outside with a HT and managed to catch what I assume were packet transmissions. Now I want to talk to a space station. 8 year old me would think it's the coolest thing ever. 42 year old me still thinks it's pretty rad. Maybe someone up there prefers broccoli cheddar soup.

she will not she is not capable of focusing long enough to study for the test

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My sincere apologizes. I might have screwed uo the name to begin with. Off and on and I have finally noticed I was wrong as it is Vance 600 after now.

200 miles can be a stretch even for VHF frequencies depending on location, terrain, height of the antennas, etc.. The antennas for our Motorola 2m and 70cm repeaters is at 900 feet above ground. And we are only getting around 85 mile radius on 2m and about 35 mile radius on 70cm.

I'm sure your wife won't be checking under your hood...