Went to the store wearing my Yaesu hat.
Man, pointing to my hat: "Are you one of those ham radio guys?"
Me: "Yes, I am a ham. A ham I am."
Man: Gives me a strange look and has no further comment.
#AmateurRadio #HamRadio #Yaesu #Awkward
Just when you thought it was nerdy enough, I set up a radio station in the desert.
I just updated my FTM-500 to the new firmware that came out a couple of days ago. No issues. If you do this update, be sure to backup your settings/memories or they WILL be lost went you do a factory reset of the radio at the end of the fw update.
Great day SOTA-ing in South Wales today the beautiful sunny weather meant easy mode for the SOTA winter bonus. Two summits for 19km walking and 16 points. Plenty of activity on 70cms and 20m.
#summitsontheair #sota #portableops #qrp #mountains #yaesu #hamr #amateurradio
Did a roadtrip with my mobile #aprs digipeter ( #ftm500 #yaesu) today with my #uvpro monitoring with #aprsfi To my phone. Was about a 4.5 hour drive. Pretty interesting to see all the stations! It was also cool I could monitor on my FTM-500 and the UV-Pro at the same time. #photo #photography #amateurradio #hamradio #packetradio #baofeng #btech
Icy and windy Summits on the Air activation of Fan Gyhirych earlier. Didn’t see anyone else on the hills all day. Bit too fresh to setup a dipole for HF this time but continuing to have success with 70cms.
#summitsontheair #sota #portableops #dx #qrp #mountains #yaesu #hamr #hamradio #amateurradio #radio
@bolderbekah @elmiller0330 @ai6yr
Traveling with my #yaesu #ht #FT5 #HamRadio. bag was pulled off security conveyor belt and opened.
#TSA agent pulls out my #magnetic mount, 1/4 wave, dual band #2m / #70cm #antenna with the #coax wound around the base.
TSA agent: “what’s this?”
Me: “an antenna”
TSA agent to the agent running the X-ray: “it’s an antenna!”
I stuff it back in my bag and head to my gate. This is the first and only time this has happened.
#ISS #SSTV #ARISS_SSTV
#yaesu Handheld and #robot36
The kids love this chase :-)
Hoy coloque el VHF en la camioneta, al fin #vhf #hamradio #radioaficionado #yaesu
A ghost from past. This device is an #aprs modem build with #arduino almost a decade ago to prove something in your face fashion. Since then it was barely used for anything useful.
I decided to make a #Digipeater from it and discovered a unsoldered pin after all these years! It was working fine with #Yaesu ptt logig but not with #baofeng. A decade old bug came to haunt me tonight =)
#hamradio #amateurradio #amateurfunk @qrp
You know, I'll keep spamming the tag.
I've (sadly) got my eye on the FT5D as a potential replacement for my 878 as a general-purpose HT. Large readouts, airband and shortwave, apparently it's even a GPS tracker??, APRS... And apparently YSF is the best mode for the HRCC link system if you want to hear everyone, which as a net control station for it I uh.... Kinda like that.
Any thoughts? Arguments? Persuasive arguments to tell me to stop spending money?
Ruardean Hill (G/WB-021) and
Seager Hill (G/WB-022) are two 1-point #SummitsOnTheAir hills I ticked off last month. 15 local contacts between the two using my #Yaesu FTM100D radio. There's been a lot of deforestation at Seager Hill since I visited a few years ago. #hamr #sota