I’m going to try and hop on 20m in my high-noise floor area (lots of EMI) and try to QSO on 10-12W.
I suppose I should practice Morse code, too.
How about you?
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Probably just join the local vhf round, they are pretty chill people. Sadly, I don't have much time
“Do what you can, from where you are, with what you’ve got.”
Yeah, I just want to stay in contact with them, maybe get some local radio news. I am pretty lucky that there are a bunch of local chapters of which most seem to be nice people.