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Posted: 8/11/2022 1:01:19 PM EDT
[#1]
I have a GMRS license and a Technician License. I got both in October of 22, so not even a year ago.
How often do I get on the radio? It carries depending on whats going on. Our club as a repeater net on Mondays at 7PM and 2m then 6m Simplex net Thursdays. I do 99% of the 2m nets, even if I have tot ake my HT with me to check in. Other nets and just scanning the VFO, I'd say I do once a week or so, if I'm home. The last few weeks I've been so busy with work and other life BS that I've had very little radio time. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 1:01:23 PM EDT
[#2]
Both. General class. About 2 years now. Also a volunteer examiner.
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Posted: 8/11/2022 1:02:27 PM EDT
[#3]
Quoted: Do you have a GMRS NO and or Amateur Radio License? YES If Amateur Radio, what level? EXTRA How long have you been licensed and how often to you actually turn a radio on? 31 years and I am on HF right now. I'll go 1st in the replies. 
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Posted: 8/11/2022 1:06:29 PM EDT
[#4]
GMRS and Extra Class Ham Radio.
Been licensed since 2012. turn the radio on every day |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 1:15:11 PM EDT
[#5]
Amateur General. Will be a year on the 17th. I haven't been on much lately. Can't sit at the radio for very long right now.
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Posted: 8/11/2022 1:22:58 PM EDT
[#6]
Amateur Extra. Been licensed since 1991.
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Posted: 8/11/2022 1:26:23 PM EDT
[#7]
GMRS licensed
Extra Few years now Usually a few times a week if not everyday. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 1:30:02 PM EDT
[#8]
GMRS and Amateur Extra. Licensed since 1992.
Use radios at least weekly. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 1:38:46 PM EDT
[#9]
No GMRS, Extra.
I have a HF radio on my desk and I have a HT that is set up on a few Pi-stars on the desk as well. I may have spoken on the radio 4 times total since getting my tech in August 2020. I try to monitor a few different digimodes daily. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 1:45:50 PM EDT
[#10]
Amateur extra, licensed over 20 years.
Recently got a GMRS license, because why not. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 1:52:42 PM EDT
[#11]
GMRS, working on armature.
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Posted: 8/11/2022 1:55:17 PM EDT
[#12]
GMRS, yes.
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Posted: 8/11/2022 1:56:26 PM EDT
[#13]
GMRS license. I’ve only had it on a few times to test, listen awhile, and make sure the wife knew what to do. As far as I can tell, there are very few people in my area with GMRS because I’ve never heard anyone else on the air on any channel. I’ve not found any repeaters either.
ETA: I really got it for SHTF so we could communicate if traveling and cell phones were down. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 1:58:05 PM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: GMRS license. I've only had it on a few times to test, listen awhile, and make sure the wife knew what to do. As far as I can tell, there are very few people in my area with GMRS because I've never heard anyone else on the air on any channel. I've not found any repeaters either. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 1:59:04 PM EDT
[#15]
General Class and GMRS.
Used as needed with our local club. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 2:04:52 PM EDT
[#16]
GMRS here
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Posted: 8/11/2022 2:08:27 PM EDT
[#17]
GMRS license and a General HAM License.
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Posted: 8/11/2022 2:15:43 PM EDT
[#18]
Amateur Extra, 32 years.
Radio is on at some point every day. Me actually talking on the radio is a couple times a week, more if there is some interesting activity to get involved with. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 2:23:16 PM EDT
[#19]
Amateur Extra. Licensed since August 1971 so 51 years. Active nearly every day. Mostly HF
Although I have VHF/UHF in the automobiles. As well as HF in the truck. Some days I may have as many as 3 HF radios on in the shack monitoring/working different bands. I have transmitted on all 3 at once on FT8. :) But typically only 2 at once. One one some band for FT8, the other working POTA on CW and SSB. I obviously have multiple antennas and some spaced apart. Nothing fancy for any of the antennas. Rigs in shack. 2X Ic7300's. 1x IC7610, and Truck Ft891 mobile Various Yaesu vhf/uhf rigs. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 2:36:10 PM EDT
[#20]
Amateur Extra.
I got my Technician license on 23 Feb 2007, the day they dropped the Morse code requirement. The next week I went back and got my General. A few weeks after that Extra. Essentially instant no-code Extra. But I had been working as an RF systems engineer for over twenty years at that point so it was just a matter of memorizing the rules and a little other minutia, cheating basically. I just never bothered to learn code (still haven't ), that was all that was holding me back.The radio is on right now as I type this. It rarely is turned off. I used to play radio every day. Now that the shine is off the hobby maybe it's once or twice a week now. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 2:51:43 PM EDT
[#21]
Amateur Extra. But don't let that fool you I have a lifetime of learning ahead.
I've been licensed for about 18 months total. Started at General, because I didn't have quite enough study time to pull off the trifecta on the first testing session - Way too much info to jam into my brain and focus on getting on the air within the rules and experiment and learn first hand. Passed extra a few months later and have been focusing in on the information I really want to learn about. It was much easier after operating as a General and applying what I had learned that carried over to the extra exam. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 3:00:39 PM EDT
[#22]
Amateur extra. First licensed in 1972 in the UK.
Just for fun, here is the examination paper:  Attached File Attached File |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 3:59:43 PM EDT
[#23]
I’ve been an extra class for 5 years
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Posted: 8/11/2022 4:00:23 PM EDT
[#24]
Only GMRS. Mostly because its impossible to convince anyone else you know to get a ham ticket and talking to dudes I dont know is a pointless hobby to me. Its cool but doesnt rresult in anything.
I use it at least weekly |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 4:06:38 PM EDT
[#25]
GMRS, I use is once or twice a year for off-roading trips.
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Posted: 8/11/2022 4:13:05 PM EDT
[#26]
GMRS only (so far).
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Posted: 8/11/2022 4:21:17 PM EDT
[#27]
General. I've been licensed for 8 years. Would have been 25 years if it wasn't for the code requirement.
I used to play with CB, in my 20s but you really don't learn much about radio and electronics, just a bunch of myths that are repeated over and over. I studied for the technician license in the early 90s and would have passed the written test easily. I just couldn't wrap my head around code because none of my friends were into it and there was no easy place to find people to practice with. The local ham club was all people old enough to be my grandfather. Nobody my age was interested. In the last 8 years I have gone through off and on phases of interest. Right now I am in an "on" phase and I am listening to FM broadcast on my FT817 right now at my desk trying to draw down the windcamp battery to the 50% level for storage. Part of my renewed interest was a friend asking me about repeaters. Then I put in a flagpole antenna support and bought a few more portable antenna toys. So I have been averaging probably 5 days a week getting on the radio. POTA and FT8 have contributed much to my renewed interest as well. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 4:29:42 PM EDT
[#28]
General. Until I got involved in a local Community Support Team, I hadn't keyed a mike in over 10 years.
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Posted: 8/11/2022 5:05:37 PM EDT
[#29]
GMRS = Yes.
I only turn it (cheap Baofeng) on when out with the Jeep club, which is hardly ever anymore. I may try fooling around with it a bit when I get a chance. Ham = Yes Amateur Extra from nothing at one test session. Been licensed for just shy of 1 1/2 years now. I fire up the radio almost every day and crawl through the bands listening and sometimes having QSOs. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 5:12:35 PM EDT
[#30]
I have the GMRS. I was studying for an Amatuer license, but as I was immersing myself into the HAM culture, I decided it wasn't a fit for me.
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Posted: 8/11/2022 6:56:51 PM EDT
[#31]
Started out as a Tech Plus. Got my General 15 or so years ago. I'm a VE, but haven't done anything since pre-Covid.
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Posted: 8/11/2022 7:01:19 PM EDT
[#32]
Yes, and no I am even worried about giving that information out, and thinking where do we go from here - Telegraph v Signal? The delay on the latest Telegraph version as me wondering why.
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Posted: 8/11/2022 7:06:08 PM EDT
[#33]
I thought we already had an introduction thread that didn't archive, but I can't find it.
Amateur Extra, no GMRS but thinking about it. Might be able to get the RF box for a GMRS repeater and thinking about putting one up if I can find all the parts for cheap/free. I think I have a site. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 7:09:17 PM EDT
[#34]
Amateur General
No need for GMRS around my area. No repeaters that I know of. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 7:24:05 PM EDT
[#35]
Quoted: Do you have a GMRS and or Amateur Radio License? If Amateur Radio, what level? How long have you been licensed and how often to you actually turn a radio on? I'll go 1st in the replies. no GMRS. never tried it. Tech-plus in early 1993 ( passed the 5wpm CW test to get on 10 meters ) 1994 advanced, passed the General written, failed the 13wpm CW, went home, practiced on 40m, came back and passed Advanced written. Got my extra about a decade ago, can't remember. I am mostly active on HF, mostly chasing DX, since June of last year, we are doing POTA activations almost every weekend. I also enjoy HF mobile.     |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 9:05:33 PM EDT
[#36]
GMRS, Extra. 20~ish yrs?
Lmr and ptp mw. Tower competent/advanced rescue. All my ham radios are broken and in boxes. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 9:29:28 PM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: GMRS license. I’ve only had it on a few times to test, listen awhile, and make sure the wife knew what to do. As far as I can tell, there are very few people in my area with GMRS because I’ve never heard anyone else on the air on any channel. I’ve not found any repeaters either. ETA: I really got it for SHTF so we could communicate if traveling and cell phones were down. http://www.mygmrs.com Register at MyGMRS, and you can get all the pertinent details. 
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Posted: 8/11/2022 10:46:49 PM EDT
[#38]
Quoted: Do you have a GMRS and or Amateur Radio License? If Amateur Radio, what level? How long have you been licensed and how often to you actually turn a radio on? I'll go 1st in the replies. Amateur Extra class since 1993. First licensed in 1976. A couple of long periods away from radio over the years but still pretty active on CW and Digital these days. |
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Posted: 8/11/2022 10:56:45 PM EDT
[#39]
GMRS - part of a local repeater group in 1987. Had several call signs over the years as I let some of them lapse. Got the last one two years ago for wife and I to use another local repeater.
Amateur radio - Yes. Technician in 1982, General in 1983, Advanced 1984 until 2007. Extra til now. Only took the Extra test because my son tested for Technician that day. Mostly listen to a scanner at home. Got a dual band and a 222 in the mobile. |
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Posted: 8/12/2022 7:50:33 PM EDT
[#40]
Lessee, first license was in 1985, when I was 15 (civil air patrol cadet comms specialist)
So General Radiotelephone Operator Restricted RTO Marine Radio Operator GMRS Amateur Technician Electronics Technician Association International Communications Technology Technician APCO Radio Technician (a bunch of manufacturer's certs, my bachelors has some comm stuff in it, a ton of government courses including EMI IS-6, uh...) ... (still don't know shit) (still need to pick up my General and RADAR endorsement) At work, I am on a lot of radio systems every day. I haven't hammed in many cycles now. This is the first personal car I've ever owned without a transceiver in it, going all the way back to my first car. Next vehicle will have a comms suite in it though lol |
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Posted: 8/12/2022 11:10:28 PM EDT
[#41]
Getting my tech license next week hopefully. Doing well on the practice tests.
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Posted: 8/13/2022 7:15:49 AM EDT
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Getting my tech license next week hopefully. Doing well on the practice tests. Awesome! Hit the General questions on Hamstudy.org and try the General exam when you pass your Technician, because when you pass one, they offer you the next higher one to take. You may well pass. It is all included in the exam session price; no additional charge. |
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Posted: 8/13/2022 12:48:37 PM EDT
[#43]
Yes on GMRS, Amateur Extra.
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Posted: 8/13/2022 1:34:00 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: General Radiotelephone Operator (still don't know shit) Me too! Also have the RADAR endorsement, GMDSS Operator and Maintainer. I can barely change the batteries in a remote. But I can take a multiple-choice test well! Michael |
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Posted: 8/13/2022 4:08:30 PM EDT
[#45]
Extra, licensed since 1954, only operate CW.
Besides my downstairs station, there's an HF rig beside my recliner in the living room. |
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Posted: 8/13/2022 4:41:34 PM EDT
[#46]
GMRS ,and Extra class.
Dont play with it much as Im a Radio Tech for our county 911 system, so I also play with Motorola stuff every day..( APX8000's, and APX8500's for the most part). |
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Posted: 8/13/2022 4:59:47 PM EDT
[#47]
Got an Extra ham license. Been a ham since 1989. Back in the days, we had to pass a CW test. I also had to pass a demonstrated ability test (setup the equipment and make both SSB and CW contacts) for my first license.
What's GMRS? |
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Posted: 8/13/2022 5:03:19 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Got an Extra ham license. What's GMRS? General Mobile Radio Service. 462 to 467 Mhz. Does require a license, No tests and entire family unit can use it. I think up to 50 watts and can have repeaters and antennas of your choice. |
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Posted: 8/13/2022 6:05:00 PM EDT
[#49]
No GMRS
Amateur Techician (been wanting to upgrade to general and become a VE but haven't found the motivation to do it). I've been licensed since 2017. I haven't turned on a radio in about 6 months since I don't have a shack at home (I had a mobile in my work vehicle but the car I drive now isn't conducive to it). |
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Posted: 8/13/2022 6:29:45 PM EDT
[#50]
Amateur Extra for almost 5 yrs.
Get on a couple of nets each week plus the monthly tornado siren net. Have a radio in the Jeep and one on my desk that I turn on once in a while during the day while working. |
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