/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1109983
I live in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, there are repeaters (plural) in nearly every town here. Ive been able to rig my radio to a power supply and a JPole antenna in my backyard hung in a tree and hit repeaters in Decatur, which almost 45 miles out. Not much to talk about on the repeaters, a bunch of friendly old guys talking about old guy stuff.

I use it primarily for skywarn nets, and simplex with friends. Occasionally we'll see how far we can get each other on simplex 2 meter, which is pretty fun.

I have a general license. I haven't really made use of it yet, but I was bored and decided to take the test.