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Keeping Ham Radio Relevant Hack Chat
Josh Nass (KI6NAZ) will host the Hack Chat on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at noon Pacific Time. Time zones got you down? Here's a handy time converter! It may not seem like it, but amateur radio is fighting a two-front war for its continued existence.
Oh ok, thanks @de∫hipu
Hi all. I am first time here.
Can anyone tell me how this hack chat works. I thought it will be like a Skype call. But it is not.
it's like Skype with no video, lol
More like IRC
Any hams in here?
a broken version of irc eating your cpu and ram
yup
It is just a text chat done here. If you have questions there is a page where the questions need to be placed. The URL for the page with the questions will be posted when the hack chat begins.
@de∫hipu LOL!!
@DEVNU11 Yes. VE3 here.
like PSK31 ?
'cept faster
KK6VDR Extra here.
@Bharbour WAY WAY faster
at least it doesn't send the contents of your disk to the mothership, like skype does
I'm Laurel VE from Madison County OH ham club
Got it. Thanks
KE7FEF here in Arizona
Is the hack chat started @Kevin
Hi @Dan Twedt and @DEVNU11. And @Bharbour - welcome! I assume you're here for the Hack Chat, which starts in about 40 minutes
NE4RD here in Montucky.
@ashok das Another 40 minutes.
Yup, waiting for the clock to spin
@William Stearns Nice call sign. :)
Hello everyone
KK6VDR@PermaTrail.org, Ventura County California. Hello to all you hams! (What if an aquaponic buckyball crashed into a solar-thermal concentrator tracking ham yurt/
shack?)
Ok waiting.
WAITING... - Eric J Brewer [KG7STP]
. http://www.linkedin.com/in/ericbrewer
..: Community Emergency Volunteer King County Washington
Team Rubicon Region X Disaster Team
FEMA Citizen Corps Issaquah / Redmond, WA
VA2ONE Montréal area Ham here waiting for the fun to start :)
Is he going to be streaming on YouTube at the same time?
Gosh i wish I had an O-scope
@Andrew , WA4JAT here in North Carolina :-)
@Andrew unknown; is his stuff usually life-streamed? to wit, this is all text
@Lazer.Coh3n getcha one! it will change your life. get a 4-chan if you can swing the extra couple bucks
Hi fellow hams, welcome to the Hack Chat! We'll get started in about 10 minutes. @Andrew no, there's no YouTube stream for this one.
de N0SSC
@Lazer.Coh3n Even a simple scope is a big improvement over no scope, but get the best you can afford and keep it a long time.
Hello alll! Kc2frm here, from forest grove, or.
Will the chat and earlier comments be archived? I'm new to the chat but didn't see a way to upvote/react to the many amazing observations.
@Dan Twedt - yes, I pull a transcript after the chat is over and post it on the event page. I'll make sure I go back past the official start - lot's of great stuff already!
KJ7DHS ready to go - looking forward to great discussion!
Hello!
o/
Hello this is Guillaume F4HDK from France.
Hi @KI6NAZ Josh ! We've already got a huge crowd, we'll just let the stragglers come along and start in a minute
Sounds good!
First time here. Is this audio or text only?
@W4KRL - text only
Roger
Just so you are forewarned @KI6NAZ Josh , my wife is going to hold you responsible for this new ham hobby you got me into hahaha
Tell her I am sorry! 😅
I wonder how many hams are on hackaday and what % of accounts they are.
you should have your wife meet his wife!
Hi everyone, welcome to the Hack Chat! Looks like we've got quite a lot of interest in our topic today, Keeping Ham Radio Relevant. Let's welcome @KI6NAZ Josh to the Chat and get started!
Hi all!
Josh, can you tell a little about your background and maybe your ham journey too?
Welcome, @KI6NAZ Josh . Thank you for all you do for.
Sure, I’m a SW engineering in SoCal. As part of a project I was on my first Elmer recommended I get my license back in 07’. Which got me started. Before that I was introduced to ham radio via the Boy Scouts.
Since then I have basically just kept learning about radio following what interested me in the hobby. There is a lot to learn out there in radio.
Boy Scouts used to be a great feeder for ham. I hope they still do it.
Um, still is.
https://www.scouting.org/jota/ ^
It is my understanding the merit badge for radio has changed a lot. I will be learning more as my son just started in scouting.
Awesome, good to know
I assume the "J" in "JOTA" stands for jamborees?
yes
Jamborees On The Air
Yes, the yearly scouting campout event.
Correct, it's the "travel free jamboree"
heh cool, is that like 'calling into' a jamboree?
Speaking of camping out, liked the SOTA campout from November on your channel, @KI6NAZ Josh
Yes, one of the big things that pushed me to go from Technician to General was access to the HF bands to work Summits On The Air. A radio event where we hike to the top of mountains and make contents for points. I held an overnight campout on a summit last November.
it was fun and refreshing! I'm glad i got to go
(Speaking of Elmers...IMHO "Elmer-ing" is going to be #1 for keeping ham relevant!)
What antennas and mode do most SOTA participants use?
We had about ten people camp out with us and all those wanted to got on the air. Hi Sterling! Sterling was one of the out of towners that joined us.
contents = contacts
I know some are concerned that amateur radio isn't attracting a lot of youth. Are there some other events that are youth focused other than scouting?
@Dan Twedt however a lot of people have been turned off even at the word "elmer" in favor of "mentor" since times have changed
YOTA, School Club Roundup, etc
Generally, people use 20 meter and 40 meter dipoles. But End-Fed Half Wave antennas are also very popular.
STEM is youth-focused.
That video came out just before Supercon in Pasadena. I'm sure it was actually some time before, but when I first saw it I felt like I missed the chance since I was right there.
@cqw4olv https://ham-yota.com, https://youthontheair.org, https://yarc.world, http://yacht.younghams.org/ are some youth orgs
Thank you Sterling
I'll have to check my kids school and see if they bring anyone in for the ham side of STEM
Boys and Girls clubs are usually open to adults presenting educational stuff. (Mentor is a better word than Elmer, agree)
Here in my part of the USA, there are so many interests for scout to be involve in, electronics and amateur radio, are pretty low on the totem pole. The local ham club I belong to has several log time scouting leadh Hopefully this chay profuces great suggestions
The nice thing about the campout is that the camp site is on the summit.
The worldwide December YOTA event seemed very successful: https://events.ham-yota.com/
Hey all
Decades ago I was an urban 4H member of the Electric Club. It may be useful to reach out to rural clubs as those youth may not have the Internet as a distraction.
Thanks Josh. Do SOTA ops tend to be on SSB or FT8 or CW?
SSB/CW most often due to weight of a laptop is a bit much
I’ve noticed that younger people and those new to radio find it interesting to build tape measure yagi antennas and learn the process of direction finding. It’s a good small group activity. Beacons can be purchased cheaply, or just have a ham in a bunch calling out to test the antennas.
@Dean It seems a lot of SOTA activators use CW (Morse code). However, most of the Youtubers that do SOTA vids are on phone (ssb). Digital modes like FT8 are beginning to see some use.
CW is great since it “goes further” than voice on our lower powered QRP radios that are easy to hike with.
for communication it's hard to compete with cell phones. Youth are always texting now days is there a ham alternative that would have any advantage.
I am really interested in CW. Is it really true that can reach long distance with CW ?
(Those tape measure yagis ... great display of imagination-capturing upcycling)
I'm finding it's a lot easier to learn CW than i thought before I started. two weeks on https://lcwo.net/ and I have almost all the characters learned.
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