/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>659832
>E4K
wow, I didn't realize what these things could do.

got a serious question

I just helped my landlord (WA9GUH) move his tower and he's offered me an old ham rig, a swan cygnet 270, it works. is this a decent rig to start out on? I've been interested in ham for a long time but I haven't checked the regs in decades, I've heard that a novice license is no morse required, how is it for the upper levels? I've been into electronics since integrated circuits began and hold a broadcast tech cert from the SBE so the tech part of ham tests shouldn't be a problem but I've never learned code and I wonder if I'll need to in order to do anything interesting.

related question, what is the ham world doing for data these days? last I heard it was "packet" 1200 baud stuff is that all there is?

anybody do slow scan?

>pic is 40ft tower and antennas for landlord