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Charles L. Cotton wrote: ↑Sun Jun 17, 2018 2:23 pm Do it!!!!! There's no reason not to do it and many reasons you should. I have a dual band in my car, one in my office and three HT's. (I'll be buying an Icom IC-7300 soon.) The radios in my car and office are always on unless I'm on the phone. I don't have to set aside time for the hobby, it's there with me as I work and drive. Even if you don't wind up talking much, it's a good backup when traditional communications fail during disasters. When bad weather does hit, I get more information from my ham radios than from TV or radio weather forecasts or reports.

On Friday, my new Yaesu DR-2X repeater was delivered. It will be used for the Texas Youth Amateur Radio Club repeater. One of the nets will be on guns & the Second Amendment. If there's enough interest, I'll have a Forum net also. People who are out of range of the repeater will be able to get in via an Allstar link and possibly Wires-X and/or Echolink.

There are a lot of study options, but I'm sold on the Gordon West study guides and practice software. We used that for the free Technician Class Eric and I did for the kids and we're going to use it for the upcoming one as well. If you choose Gordon's material, I'll tell you the procedure I used to pass the Extra exam. Here's a link: http://www.w5yi.org/catalog_details.php?pid=82&sort=5

Chas.