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Turn Your PC into a ham radio !

 
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Turn Your PC into a ham radio !
No extra hardware needed, just your PC, a microphone, speakers and you are ready to call CQ on the virtual Ham Radio bands. Once you have installed this Ham Radio Software you will be able to communicate with thousands of Amateur Radio operators and radio enthusiasts from over 200 countries around the world. You can even use it without a Ham Radio License.
[link to www.hamsphere.com]
Holy, holy,holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.Praise the one who gives you peace beyond all understanding Yes that scripture still sounds good !
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What you are not told is that when you install the software, your PC broadcasts all of your personal information to the CIA and NSA.

Go ahaead and use it, after all it's "free", right?
I'm tired of waiting, somebody push the damn button already!

Keep your 72 virgins, give me one old biker chick.
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01/09/2012 09:47 AM
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Re: Turn Your PC into a ham radio !
Its not ham. Nothing more than a chat session over internet.
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Read about Vic VE3JAR, a Ham operator in Canada who has made over 8000 contacts from 224 countries on HamSphere sofar [link to www.hamsphere.com]
Holy, holy,holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.Praise the one who gives you peace beyond all understanding Yes that scripture still sounds good !
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01/09/2012 09:51 AM
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Re: Turn Your PC into a ham radio !
Its not ham. Nothing more than a chat session over internet.
 Quoting: nono 8475625


Well yeah as it has no antenna.
But I wonder if somehow you connect to an actual ham and control it via internet?
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Re: Turn Your PC into a ham radio !
Its not ham. Nothing more than a chat session over internet.
 Quoting: nono 8475625


You can receive ham signals and send through this system ! The other end will probably by be a ham operator !
Holy, holy,holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.Praise the one who gives you peace beyond all understanding Yes that scripture still sounds good !
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01/09/2012 09:55 AM
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It also needs a password and email I think I once tried this and it kept asking me to buy it.
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This just simulates ham. As a chat session.
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I don't know what this software is, but if you are transmitting over the Ham Bands, you need an FCC license,(Technician, General, Etc)
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Re: Turn Your PC into a ham radio !
No extra hardware needed, just your PC, a microphone, speakers and you are ready to call CQ on the virtual Ham Radio bands. Once you have installed this Ham Radio Software you will be able to communicate with thousands of Amateur Radio operators and radio enthusiasts from over 200 countries around the world. You can even use it without a Ham Radio License.
[link to www.hamsphere.com]
 Quoting: wing-ed


That's pretty cool, but after I got it downloaded and set up, it told me that it was only a 6 day free trial...

peace
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Re: Turn Your PC into a ham radio !
This just simulates ham. As a chat session.
 Quoting: nono 8475625


The person who recommend it to me said I could listen to ham on this !
Douglas Dietrich


OVER THE NEXT TWO (2 [?]) WEEKS
– DOUGLAS DIETRICH AIRS VIA SHORTWAVE BROADCASTING
& HAM RADIO:

WORDNEWS-ONE Program
He then goes on to recommend this for listening ! ?
Holy, holy,holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.Praise the one who gives you peace beyond all understanding Yes that scripture still sounds good !
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Re: Turn Your PC into a ham radio !
No extra hardware needed, just your PC, a microphone, speakers and you are ready to call CQ on the virtual Ham Radio bands. Once you have installed this Ham Radio Software you will be able to communicate with thousands of Amateur Radio operators and radio enthusiasts from over 200 countries around the world. You can even use it without a Ham Radio License.
[link to www.hamsphere.com]
 Quoting: wing-ed


That's pretty cool, but after I got it downloaded and set up, it told me that it was only a 6 day free trial...

peace
 Quoting: OmarEastwind


They probably figure you will either pay if its good or drop it in that time ! But 6 days free they must have faith in the product !
Holy, holy,holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.Praise the one who gives you peace beyond all understanding Yes that scripture still sounds good !
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I don't know what this software is, but if you are transmitting over the Ham Bands, you need an FCC license,(Technician, General, Etc)
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You must be using a licensed tower ! I don't know what the licence includes but a language filter could be developed ?
Holy, holy,holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.Praise the one who gives you peace beyond all understanding Yes that scripture still sounds good !
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Re: Turn Your PC into a ham radio !
What you are not told is that when you install the software, your PC broadcasts all of your personal information to the CIA and NSA.

Go ahaead and use it, after all it's "free", right?
 Quoting: Sledster


dude - nothings failsafe.

cmon,......seriously. we know.

still its good info for the hammies
political correctness is a doctrine.... fostered by a delusional, illogical minority...... and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media; which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
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Do you have something to help us contact the people on Mars??? I have some questions about that giant face.
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Its not ham. Nothing more than a chat session over internet.
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Last Edited by Nicola Tesla on 01/09/2012 10:11 AM
Somewhere Down Under...

"You guys are so unhip, it's a wonder that your bums don't fall off" - from "The Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy" by Douglas Adams (R.I.P.)

"To make an assumption is the mother of all f%^(ups"

“An UFO is classified as unidentified, but the U.S. Government is classified as identified but remains unknown”

LINUX ROCKS, WINDOZE SUX!!!
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Do you have something to help us contact the people on Mars??? I have some questions about that giant face.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1446527

Pretty sure you will need your own antennae for that one !
Holy, holy,holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.Praise the one who gives you peace beyond all understanding Yes that scripture still sounds good !
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Re: Turn Your PC into a ham radio !
Its not ham. Nothing more than a chat session over internet.
 Quoting: nono 8475625


Precisely, you are not talking on THE REAL HF BANDS AT ALL!!!
IT IS ALL VIRTUAL!!
That's why you will find that there are very few, if any VK's on there - we Aussies like to use REAL bands!!!
Somewhere Down Under...

"You guys are so unhip, it's a wonder that your bums don't fall off" - from "The Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy" by Douglas Adams (R.I.P.)

"To make an assumption is the mother of all f%^(ups"

“An UFO is classified as unidentified, but the U.S. Government is classified as identified but remains unknown”

LINUX ROCKS, WINDOZE SUX!!!
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01/09/2012 10:16 AM
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Re: Turn Your PC into a ham radio !
Don't you need an operators licence to broadcast ham?

They wouldn't let just anyone operate, virtual or not.
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Do you have something to help us contact the people on Mars??? I have some questions about that giant face.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1446527


:ABpffttt:
political correctness is a doctrine.... fostered by a delusional, illogical minority...... and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media; which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
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Re: Turn Your PC into a ham radio !
I don't know what this software is, but if you are transmitting over the Ham Bands, you need an FCC license,(Technician, General, Etc)
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8518428

You must be using a licensed tower ! I don't know what the licence includes but a language filter could be developed ?
 Quoting: wing-ed


I am am Ham, I can assure you can't legally transmit over the Ham bands without taking the tests and getting the FCC license.

It's a cool hobby. Takes a lot of studying for each test, and getting your rig and antenna set up is a bit of a bitch, but worth it in the end.

I have a Kenwood TS-480.
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So - why not just use SKYPE?
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Re: Turn Your PC into a ham radio !
Its not ham. Nothing more than a chat session over internet.
 Quoting: nono 8475625


Precisely, you are not talking on THE REAL HF BANDS AT ALL!!!
IT IS ALL VIRTUAL!!
That's why you will find that there are very few, if any VK's on there - we Aussies like to use REAL bands!!!
 Quoting: VK3VMS


I see(I think?)

so you could call it anything? Not just ham?
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I don't know what this software is, but if you are transmitting over the Ham Bands, you need an FCC license,(Technician, General, Etc)
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8518428

You must be using a licensed tower ! I don't know what the licence includes but a language filter could be developed ?
 Quoting: wing-ed


I am am Ham, I can assure you can't legally transmit over the Ham bands without taking the tests and getting the FCC license.

It's a cool hobby. Takes a lot of studying for each test, and getting your rig and antenna set up is a bit of a bitch, but worth it in the end.

I have a Kenwood TS-480.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8518428


"I am a"
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Re: Turn Your PC into a ham radio !
What you are not told is that when you install the software, your PC broadcasts all of your personal information to the CIA and NSA.

Go ahaead and use it, after all it's "free", right?
 Quoting: Sledster


dude - nothings failsafe.

cmon,......seriously. we know.

still its good info for the hammies
 Quoting: Phennommennonn


Just tryin' to stir the pot....


stir


But I am also a Ham operator.
Have been for more than 20 years.

Last Edited by Alferd Packer on 01/09/2012 10:21 AM
I'm tired of waiting, somebody push the damn button already!

Keep your 72 virgins, give me one old biker chick.
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01/09/2012 10:21 AM
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LOL..ham internet.

Ham radio requires actual radio waves. Those things are in the air not over wires.

It's like saying satellite cable TV.
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Its not ham. Nothing more than a chat session over internet.
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Re: Turn Your PC into a ham radio !
No extra hardware needed, just your PC, a microphone, speakers and you are ready to call CQ on the virtual Ham Radio bands. Once you have installed this Ham Radio Software you will be able to communicate with thousands of Amateur Radio operators and radio enthusiasts from over 200 countries around the world. You can even use it without a Ham Radio License.
[link to www.hamsphere.com]
 Quoting: wing-ed


Yes, but this defeats the purpose behind ham radio.

To communicate world wide in the event of an emergency.





GLP