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Originally Posted by LUTNIT
IMy dad is a HAM operator and he actually told me he did this once by accident because of extreme humidity variations between the temperature layers, nifty. Though I haven't talked to my dad about radio stuff for years though I did hear that you no longer need to know morris code to get your license?
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I was looking at getting my ham license and there are two classes of license now, one with and one without morse code.
They have online tests you can take and there is a lot of electronics and stuff - probably a lot of it is out of date now. The tests were made back in the day when people made their own sets and had to know their shit or they'd end up wiping out channels for miles around them. I don't think the licensing truely reflects today's potential user of a handheld set. I'd rather have someone know how to handle themselves on a net than know what the colors are to a resistor (yes, thats one question on the test).
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Originally Posted by LUTNIT
Its just that a local Ottawa newb was talking to me about radios and because of something he read here on ASC he thought he HAD to get a $150 UHF radio, just throwing in a voice for the better cheaper radios.
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To be honest my airsoft experience these day is Muskoka and in dense bush with a lot of terrain, hence my obsession with a good set with a good SMA interchangable duck. I also like the additional features (programming from a PC/tactical headset and PTT, etc). Do you 'need' it? Well, I'd say thats the same evaluation you make on anything airsoft - you don't strictly need any of it. As I said though I do find it useful to be able to go out-of-band of the bubblepack radios for security purposes and many of my teammates have these radios so its a non-issue for us, we just get them and use them.