It probably started when I was around 7-10 years old… I had a neighbor who lived down the street and our cheap walkie-talkies just couldn’t reach but we devised the plan that if we could just learn morse code we could use our flashlights to communicate. The only problem was… learning morse code! My desire [...]
Where to start… so back in High School I had an electronics teacher at Harbor High School named Dan White. He was a ham and talked about radio in class and gave us demonstrations of how he used radio. Even before that I used walkie talkies, and later CB Radio. Around that time I received [...]
I work for a non-profit organization and over the years I have spotted more and more of our staff groups using Family Radio Service (FRS) radios as a part of their jobs. While I knew it is an unlicensed band, I also assumed that business use would have been prohibited since it was called the [...]
After quite a bit of reading reviews and looking through catalogs, and viewing the TH-F6A Instruction Manual, I finally settled on the Kenwood TH-F6A as my next radio. Well, actually, it’s “Ellen’s Radio” (KI6FEB) but she and I both know I’ll play with it a lot more often! Since we only had my one radio, [...]