As fas as the mainstream media (M5M) are concerned, ham radio doesn’t exist. All I’ve heard about are heroic efforts to distribute Starlink terminals.

As past FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, KK4INZ, said in Ham Radio Now Emcomm Extra #8, when an incident occurs “they just want their email to work.”

Now you’ll have to find something else to complain about.

Some people may prefer to assemble their node from parts rather then buying a completed appliance.

Why are you against that?

if your club sucks, contribute and make it better!

That’s an idiotic, and more than a little bit insulting, kneejerk response.

You have no idea what I do for my club.

Amateur Radio is a niche hobby full of niches; most of them require a radio. Here’s one list of things you can do with/in Amateur Radio:

🔗 https://hamradiofornontechies.com/what-can-i-do-with-ham-radio/

Clubs are highly overrated. They are only beneficial if your interests in Amateur Radio coincide with a sizable segment of the club membership or with the club’s purpose. In my case our club is `primarily a social outlet for disheveled old folks who are only interested in DXing and contests; not my cup of tea.

None … because I won’t play in that cesspool.

The APRSLink callsign reverted to WLNK-1 around February 3rd.

Edit: Found the approximate reversion date

Forgot to mention that I was using APRSLink to check-in to the FediFridayWinlinkNet

https://coloradodigital.net/nets/fedifridaywinlinknet/

Link addresses to remote sites must start with either the protocol (e.g. “http://”) or a double slash.

Otherwise your browser will prepend the current hostname and, in the case of relative addresses, the current path. See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24028561/ddg#24028813 for a discussion of absolute vs relative addresses.

Thanks for fixing the link!

@ham_bitious please edit your post and fix the borken link!

Thats very nice! And I’m quite jealous of what they’re able to accomplish.

Our club can barely come up with enough VHF voice net operators to staff less than 20 marathon aid stations. Technologies such as APRS are an anathema in our group of luddites.

Do what ever “scratches your itch”. The choices of random internet users aren’t applicable to your situation.

In our area both “modes” are effectively dead. There are two packet nodes and no meaningful traffic. And APRS is full of position reports from repeater objects and DV hotspots; we don’t use APRS for anything … no messaging, no event support, etc.

It’s all quite sadly pointless. The luddites in our club are not interested in anything more than working DX and oversharing on repeater nets.

There’s no soldering at all; just mechanical assembly.

Just finished putting together a uBitx v6 full kit. Now to test it!