bantici

Ok this is the most recent ham radio thread so I'll post this here.. I'm Looking into getting into ham radios with a couple of my friends who live several hours away but I cannot find any repeater locations close to their area... What should I do?

ShawnInPaso

Where do you and your friends live? Sometimes there are linked repeaters which will provide extended coverage, or a high level mountaintop repeater could provide coverage over a couple of hundred miles.

Alternately, you could study for the General license which would allow for use of the lower frequencies (e.g. 80 meters, 40 meters and so on). These freqs would offer communication when there is good propagation between your two locations.

I wonder by what means did you check for repeaters, an online source, or other means?

bantici

They live around clarksdale ms. Flat delta ground im around the Jackson ms area I checked several websites online ant the closest repeater was around 20 miles

ShawnInPaso

Hate to hijack the thread here; but if I had to guess the repeater in Yazoo cty might work between the two locations. Good luck!

bantici

Thanks for the reply!! I never know what thread to post in haha!!

UKCRD

No worries and good luck!

ShawnInPaso

Hey UK -

Did you build that beautiful looking bench? I wonder if it has storage underneath. Either way, great looking setup OM.

UKCRD

Shawn, thanks, yes, I built it a while ago. No storage space under I'm afraid. Better pic here.

UKCRD

Shawn, almost forgot, there's a write-up with pics on the entire build of that bench HERE.

ShawnInPaso

Wow, really first class work. I like the nice touch with the soda can holders too.