Get your technicians license. By studying you will define the next steps as relevant to your needs or goals. Their are several study guides available online. GOOGLE.
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This is a discussion on New HAM listener within the General Prepper and Survival Talk forums, part of the Survivalist, Prepper, Bushcrafter, Forest Rangers category; So, I just bought a Baofeng handheld ham duo. Any advice on next steps? Beyond, take a class dummy? Notlooking to transmit, just listen in ...
So, I just bought a Baofeng handheld ham duo. Any advice on next steps? Beyond, take a class dummy? Notlooking to transmit, just listen in onsomethimg pardon my grammer, im too lazyto go back, and this is the Internet, not a resume. Getoverit.
Get your technicians license. By studying you will define the next steps as relevant to your needs or goals. Their are several study guides available online. GOOGLE.
Last edited by A Watchman; 08-12-2016 at 02:10 PM.
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Go on AARL. They have reviews and practice exams where they use the pool of actual test questions. Keep taking the test till you get scores of 80 % consistently. Then take the real thing to get you technicians license. I say Ham radio is a must for a prepper.
Just renewed mine for the umpthteenth time, first one in 1957.
The test is fairly easy...I got 1 wrong...my issue is figuring out what freq to listen too! Not doing well on that front
I do have a somewhat local chapter I need to visit to get me some learnin'...
No reason, that I can see, not to take the test...
Michael J.
If you are interested in HAM and want to learn more, I recommend the following YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/davecasler/featured
This guy is pretty informative and his videos will help make things easy to learn. It helped me. I have to read and see something before I can learn it, and I could learn at my own pace with the videos.
If your plans are only to ever listen, you don't *need* to do anything else. However, taking a class or reading up on the Tech license would give you helpful information on how to use your radio, how to find helpful frequencies, and maybe reach out to a local club.
Having the ability to use something, but lacking the skill to do so, is pointless.
"Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem"
or
"I prefer perilous liberty to peaceful servitude." - Thomas Jefferson