My dad got his ham radio license just recently. There's some really neat stuff out there. There's special low signal strength signalling standards that dramatically increase the amount of distance you can communicate over using a PC as a signal processor. A PC is practically mandatory equipment.
One thing I didn't realize is that you only get to talk to where you get to talk to. Solar activity has a large bearing on where your signals can hit. In a time with few solar flares (like the past decade) it's much more difficult to bounce signals over to the other side of the earth.
One thing I didn't realize is that you only get to talk to where you get to talk to. Solar activity has a large bearing on where your signals can hit. In a time with few solar flares (like the past decade) it's much more difficult to bounce signals over to the other side of the earth.
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