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Soarin

Soarin

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Yes you heard me correctly, CB talk. Has anyone, and you can laugh at me all you want ever put a CB radio into a PC. And if so did you follow a guide or could help a weird ass such as myself?
Basically when my friend and I get our Amateur radio license i want to make my base station at my pc.
 
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When you get your Amateur Radio license, you won't be wanting a CB and, you won't be saying breaker breaker. I hope.

You probably need to do a LOT more research into this...and I don't know of a way to put a radio INTO a computer...but when you are ready to use your PC to do ham radio, and I mean control the radio by using your computer, your gonna want to get in touch with these guys.

http://www.flex-radio.com/


btw...there is a ham radio thread somewhere here in the Hobbies section.

Check these guys out.
http://www.arrl.org/

Wanna know what hams think of CB'rs and breaker breaker? Look in here.
http://forums.qrz.com/
 
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Wow a lot of info in there. I gues si shoulkd have been more specific. I would like to get both my ham license and i am not sure if i am correct but i thought in order to use a CB base station you need a radio license. Oh well. worth a shot. I am just a wierdo i guess lol. For some reason (may be that my uncle was a trucker) i like CB's. Thank you very much. I guess i need to think before i post. hard days work fries your brain lol
 
I think you ae right i had my information assbackwards. Anyways, now its just a matter of studying. And i like that link for the PC device.
 
Yep.

Flex Radio is geek heaven. Ham Radio and Computer hobby all rolled into one.
 
If you're looking at getting into the Ham thing, make sure to do two things.

1) Read.

2) Shut Up.


Listen before you talk, on the air, at ARRL meets, at swap meets, on forums, wherever. You sound like you've got the right attitude, I wish you the best of luck on your new hobby.

The only integration I'd do, at least initially, is to sample audio from whatever radio you're using for various digital modes. Packet is hella cool, it's like BBSing for the '90s...
 
Ham radio is easy.

1. Get a tech ticket. If you can fog a mirror you can get this.

2. Find any old pos dual band icom radio

3. Go to radio shack and build your "first real antenna omg you are a genius" out of some twin lead

4. Be sure to babble all day about how bad the traffic is and how kids don't respect their parents. Please feel free to talk non stop until the repeater times out. Also repeat your custom call sign (you did pay the FCC for a "cool" one right?) after every 3 words and say "73" every chance you get

5. Tell anyone that will listen about how important you are in case "the big one" comes and you have to relay blood types for dying orphans to the space station.

6. This one is really important. Get the cellphone number of the guy that runs the REAL comm systems in your county. Call him twice a week for favors since his boss told him he has to be nice to the hams. While he is performing said favors be sure to ramble on non stop about VSWR and other bullshit terms that actual comm guys stopped giving a shit about 30 years ago so he can see how smart you are.

7. DIAF. Thanks.
 
http://www.hamsexy.com/

The age spectrum of the ham community is very top heavy. These are the guys who don't want their life's work to go to waste and are almost driven nuts by it--and it drives young hams away.
 
everything on hamsexy.net is why my radios are sitting in a box in the garage, collecting dust.

Still putting a tower up, though. If nothing else, I might hang solar panels off of it...
 
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