Yep! Beautiful voice signal. The call signs indicate approximately where you are, mine starts with KB7 and that indicates the Rocky Mountain/Southwest region. The ham that I was with, Ron, didn't recognize this guy's prefix, so he looked up his call sign in a book and found that it was a pretty darn rare location! Hams sometimes exchange post cards called QSL cards that are sort of a receipt of transmission: you write down the call sign that you had contact with, date, time, signal strength, clarity of transmission, maybe duration of call? You also log that in your personal log book. And when you receive that card, it goes on your trophy wall or into your book. And as soon as Ron signed off with this guy, a dozen people were jumping in, trying to contact him because of the rarity of the call sign! Now, the funny thing was that this guy, thousands of miles away, knew another ham operator in Phoenix! Ron called the guy to let him know his buddy was on the air and the band was 'open' since Ron was able to talk to him, unfortunately the guy had just taken his radio apart for maintenance! But Ron had the gear to patch a telephone call into the radio, so he was able to let the two friends talk via phone and radio! Amateur radio is pretty cool.
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Date: 2024-06-25 05:18 am (UTC)Yep! Beautiful voice signal. The call signs indicate approximately where you are, mine starts with KB7 and that indicates the Rocky Mountain/Southwest region. The ham that I was with, Ron, didn't recognize this guy's prefix, so he looked up his call sign in a book and found that it was a pretty darn rare location! Hams sometimes exchange post cards called QSL cards that are sort of a receipt of transmission: you write down the call sign that you had contact with, date, time, signal strength, clarity of transmission, maybe duration of call? You also log that in your personal log book. And when you receive that card, it goes on your trophy wall or into your book. And as soon as Ron signed off with this guy, a dozen people were jumping in, trying to contact him because of the rarity of the call sign! Now, the funny thing was that this guy, thousands of miles away, knew another ham operator in Phoenix! Ron called the guy to let him know his buddy was on the air and the band was 'open' since Ron was able to talk to him, unfortunately the guy had just taken his radio apart for maintenance! But Ron had the gear to patch a telephone call into the radio, so he was able to let the two friends talk via phone and radio! Amateur radio is pretty cool.