Скачать или смотреть First Contact Attempts | Radio Rookie Ep. 10

Finally got my call sign and made my first transmissions! In this episode, I share my inaugural attempts at making contact as KR4HCQ using my Baofeng UV5R with a mag-mount antenna on my car.

I tried multiple approaches:

Simplex on 146.520 MHz
Local repeaters in Bluefield, WV
Flat Top Mountain repeater

While I didn't make contact through traditional methods during this recording, I share a confession about my actual first contact the next day using EchoLink to connect with a ham in Martinsburg, WV via internet-linked repeater. Was it cheating? You decide!

Join me on this journey as I navigate the challenges of making that all-important first radio contact as a new ham operator.