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kayt00 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 6:20 pm Just Technician right now, one step at a time. If it's something I actually enjoy I'll jump to general then maybe extra. I got 100% on the tech exam so we'll see what happens down the road.

ShepherdTX wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 9:39 am Not meaning to hijack the thread or anything but I have a ham radio related question.

Decades ago when I was a wee teenager I got my ham radio license. I ended up eventually expiring past the renewal and renewal grace period. Checking the registry it still shows my name on the original call sign though it's obviously flagged as expired. Recently I was thinking of studying up and getting back in to it again. Does anyone here know if there there is any way I could take the test again and get my original call sign back? I would love to have my original one back but I couldn't find out anything online if it was possible or if I would just be assigned whatever is available.

Paladin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 4:55 pm
That just re-enforces my opinion that Woodrow Wilson and FDR were the worst presidents the US ever had.....

chamberc wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:09 am

2farnorth wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:01 am

chamberc wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 9:33 am

Paladin wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 9:24 am

Dave2 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 4:25 am Has anyone actually threatened to shut down ham radios, or is this all hypothetical?

There are actually legal workarounds even if they did. Per international agreements, if you have dual citizenship and a listed foreign amateur radio license, the US has to let you use it here:

Operation in the US by Foreign Amateurs

Truthfully, even the Soviet Union had ham operators. Its how the Soviet's got contact with the outside world.

They can track down any stationary HAM user any time they want pretty easily... fox and hound exercises show it doesn't take much. You operate at their pleasure. Same goes for any technology even E2E encrypted...

With satellite technology a transmitter can be pin pointed in seconds if they wish. Radar (another form of radio) emitters are pin pointed from aircraft all the time. A single ham operator with a mobile very directional antenna would need several minutes to triangulate a general vicinity of a local transmitter if it was continually or regularly transmitting. Cell phone towers locate the general vicinity of phones continually.

I know all this stretching the original topic of alternate coms, but if anyone is planning on these things they need to know all the details. There are faults in all systems. Runners/messengers are slow, mail is unreliable, smoke signals, flashlight morse code, and flags have be in visual range. Where does it end?

Exactly. Nothing is perfect or fool-proof.

2farnorth wrote: ↑Tue Jan 12, 2021 10:35 am The Feds can eliminate legal Amateur Radio any time they want too. All it would take is an edict from Biden/Harris. Just like Hitler did. There is no constitutional protection for us. But anyway, the constitution doesn't matter anymore to the usurpers. It's being stomped on every day.

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