The one thing I love, is just listening to people chat about whatever is on their mind, such as politics and the price of oil.
I’m really looking forward to the point I can chat too, I sometimes wonder how I will fit in with this crew of amateur radio operators. Mainly because I’m so much younger than them.
But in the end it’s going to be fun, and that’s what this hobby is all about.
Just looking at new radios Hannah and I may get, and we keep on looking at the IC-7000. This radio appears it will cover everything we want to do and more.
The good thing is we can easily set it’s output power so that on the foundation license I can transmit (there is a 10 watt maximum on the foundation license) and then ramp it up when Hannah goes to transmit (once we’ve transfered her license from the states to here.)
I really like the look and the feature set of this radio, and it appears it will work a lot better where we are, as it’s dsp filters should be able to cut out a lot of the noise.