Posted: 4/25/2010 2:21:34 PM EDT
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WQLS848 broadcasting for the first time on 462.5625. I know, it's only GMRS, but I've not had a call sign since BC141! Now that I'm getting into comm's, will this be my call sign when I get my ham license? How do I go about locating and using (with permission, of course) GMRS repeaters in my area (Atlanta). I'd like to be able to reach my wife +/- 6 miles away in the city. Yes, I know I'm a  and full of questions, but I'm just excited. My nephew is a ham in L.A. (lower alabama) and I'm going to surprise him this summer, I hope!Thanx guys! Hollywood |
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Only one I really see in metro-ATL is the one in Alpharetta: 462.7 MHz http://www.mygmrs.com/browse?name=&location=&state=GA&frequency=&output_tone=&input_tone=&type=&network=&ori=&travel=&sort=State&step=25 Honestly, you're probably better off getting your Tech license so you can get a decent mobile unit or HT to communicate with the wife - GMRS "power" being what it is, and the little antennas on them don't reach out very far. Your wife would need to get a tech license as well. |
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Now that I'm getting into comm's, will this be my call sign when I get my ham license? No, you'll receive a completely different amateur callsign from the FCC. They use totally different syntax than GMRS. Ham calls are [Letter(s)][Single Digit][Letters] and follow a format of 1x2 1x3 2x1 2x2 2x3 As a new licensee, you'll be assigned a 2x3 (two letters, single digit, three letters). If you're in Georgia, your prefix will likely be KJ4 since that's where they are in the sequential assignments. |
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or about one of the top US submarines in WW II the USS Wahoo (SS-238)...shown here off California on 14 Feb 1943.
and.....if you are ever get to San Francisco, check out the USS Pampanito (SS-383).....her radio room is fully restored (even the Mark II electronic cipher machine). (http://www.maritime.org/tour/radio.php?pano=fl) 
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