Ham Radio Forum - HamDialog

Hi Everyone!

Welcome to the Ham Radio Forum!

This is the start of the bulletin board messages, I will start us off

My name is Matt and I am located in the North West of the UK in a small village near Preston. I have been interested in amateur radio for over a decade now, got my first licence in 2009 as M6CEB, then in 2019 I got my Intermediate callsign 2E0FNM

This thread is meant to be a place where you can post a random message so others can read them and add to it, if you want to start a topic please use General Discussion..

73
Matt
2E0FNM

I trid to set up a BBS unsuccessfully this is a great way to get those 80's vibes back

Quite like the BBS system, bit dated now tho but cool, I don't remember those days bit before my time. I have tried a bit of ham radio packet but only breifly so need to learn the ropes a bit.

Hi Matt,

Thanks for setting up the forum, fingers crossed people join in and it becomes a busy place.

My names Andy and I am from Fleetwood, Lancashire. I am almost 50 and I work as a Marine surveyor have spent most of my working life prior to this at sea as a ships officer. I have probably spent most of my working life talking into radios either hand held or fixed VHF, MF and Airband too.

But Ham radio is some thing new to me but I have always kinda had an interest in radio as I have owned several scanners mostly for monitoring airband when I spent a lot of my free time taking photos of fighter jets flying low level.

Since coming ashore, I seem to have a lot less free time and some weeks I have next to no free time so my hobbies get put on the back burner.

I only recently passed my foundation exam and I am in the process of setting up a shack in my man cave at home. I have an Icom 7300 and plan to use an EFHW or vertical antenna for that. I have a few handheld radios too from the Baofeng uv21pro, Retevis RT3s, a couple of Quanshengs ( I think half the world now own these lil radios?) and Santa recently delivered an Icom52e too

ah well thats enough brew time waffle from me, I am hoping to get to TCARS at some point in the future when work allows but I am on early starts and late finishes with work at the moment so might be a few weeks before I can surface at a meeting.

73's

Andy

Hi Andy!

Welcome in mate! Fleetwood.. not to far from me.

You have some fantastic radios there! I have the 7300 and the 52e too. Really awesome radios! I don't get as much time ATM either so I feel ya there

I'm pleased with the forum. May take a little while but slowly it will get there I'm sure. I really enjoyed building it either way

Really appreciate you being here Andy and look forward to seeing your posts on the forum
73 mate
Matt
2E0FNM

What's everyone been up too?

Hi guys!

Sorry we seem to have had some Spam lately, I have removed it now and will keep a close eye on it, thanks