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 Sep 10 2008, 07:08 PM
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1,184 posts Joined: Jan 2003 From: UEP Subang Jaya 
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I am not a HAM but I been monitoring the 2 meter band for a long time. It all started during my school days when I love to monitor the shortwave. Many years ago I bought a scanner and that's when I started to monitor the 2 meters. It's kind of addictive ...monitoring almost every night...My antenna is Diamond using coaxial cable LMR-400. My scanner is Icom. I also love to monitor the shortwave utility stations.
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Sep 11 2008, 02:37 AM
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QUOTE(joejoney @ Sep 10 2008, 07:51 PM) monitor only? not interested to TX? At the moment I'm only monitoring. Not that I'm not interested in TX...but I'm too shy laa...    . |
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Sep 16 2008, 01:53 AM
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QUOTE(anoko @ Sep 15 2008, 09:41 PM) Nice to hear that u like to do monitoring especially on the utility stations very interesting!....But so sorry some of us here might ask silly question .....monitor only ? Why not transmitting.....? They dont know that monitoring is more interesting than transmitting..... I don't know about other ppl but I truly enjoy monitoring especially in shortwave. It's kind of hard to explain. There is nothing more gratifying than to listen late at night catching a lone weak signal from a utility station from some remote pacific island.  Shortwave utilities is truly exiting. It is like going fishing and you don't know what you going to catch. . This post has been edited by Empathy: Sep 16 2008, 01:54 AM |
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Sep 17 2008, 12:27 AM
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Here is a link to download sample of Monitoring Times ie a popular monitoring magazine in the United States. The file is quite big so it gonna take about 10 minutes or so to download.
http://www.monitoringtimes.com/MT/html/free_issue.html . |
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Feb 13 2009, 12:16 PM
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I have been a SWL for a long long time and been monitoring the VHF band for about 10 years now. I think I wanna go into the next step ie to become a HAM but...my biggest problem is that I'm extremely shy to go on air.
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Feb 13 2009, 03:26 PM
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QUOTE(someone_stupid @ Feb 13 2009, 12:50 PM) ah bro do u hav a callsign? itz ok wan just start wif simplex first thn go repeater whn u get the hang of it No...I'm not a HAM yet so I don't have a callsign. I think I have to take the RAE test first before becoming a HAM. . This post has been edited by Empathy: Feb 13 2009, 03:29 PM |
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