Ham radio.
A week ago today I took the amateur radio technician exam, proctored by the Midland Amateur Radio Club. I passed, getting 32 of 34 questions correct. On Thursday, according to the ‘new hams’ page on qrz.com, I was assigned the callsign KE5UAF by the FCC.
I was very hopeful that I would get my callsign by April 26th, as I am going camping with at least one other ham. Looks like the FCC is on the ball. 
I also purchased a Icom IC-T7H from ebay as my first tranceiver radio. With any luck it will be in decent shape when I get it.
Alan W5EAC wrote:
Welcome to the Hobby! You may want to tune in the Plano Amateur Radio Klub’s Good News Net, Thursdays 8:45pm local, 147.180, PL 107.2 - usually runs til 9:30. You can check in during the latter part of the Net, after the 30-min Amateur Radio Newsline. Here’s where you can find a list of DFW repeaters: (Verified D/FW Two-meter (144 MHz) FM repeaters)
http://www.n5lxi.com/
73, Alan W5EAC
Posted on 21-Apr-08 at 11:06 pm | Permalink
Philip White wrote:
Congrats, Chris!
73, KE5LXR
Posted on 23-Apr-08 at 3:48 pm | Permalink
chris wrote:
@Alan
Thanks for the link. That’s extremely handy for programming repeaters into the ol’ HT
@Philip
Thanks!
Posted on 24-Apr-08 at 4:09 pm | Permalink
Philip White wrote:
Also you might find my page useful: http://www.qnan.org/~pmw/ar/
There I have a Frequencies of Interest page containing Dallas frequencies both for repeaters and public services, as well as a traffic net cheatsheet. Both of these have served me well.
Posted on 28-Apr-08 at 10:00 am | Permalink