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CTC60025

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Re: Communicate consistently over 1000's of miles?
« Reply #15 on: June 21, 2022, 08:15:04 PM »


Based on observations in many circumstances over the
years, my philosophy is:

If you don’t use it regularly, don’t count on it in an emergency.

So using ham radio for your desired communications
isn’t something where you can just buy the radios and
store them in the closet until you need them.  It would
be a long-term commitment to acquire the skills,
knowledge, and experience to make it work, along with
the required equipment and antennas.

Thank you WB6BYU
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CTC60025

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Re: Communicate consistently over 1000's of miles?
« Reply #16 on: June 21, 2022, 08:16:39 PM »

As other replies mentioned, you need a fairly significant amount of hardware to communicate over several thousand miles on a daily basis, even then propagation isn’t guaranteed.

A satellite phone is a lot cheaper…

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CTC60025

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Re: Communicate consistently over 1000's of miles?
« Reply #17 on: June 21, 2022, 08:18:37 PM »

A satellite phone is a lot cheaper.

Not to mention far less complex to operate. And much more reliable.

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CTC60025

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Re: Communicate consistently over 1000's of miles?
« Reply #18 on: June 21, 2022, 08:19:20 PM »

Its not practical.
Everyone needs to licensed and everyone needs to understand propagation.etc.
However, you said possible.
yes, it is possible.

-Mike.

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WO7R

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Re: Communicate consistently over 1000's of miles?
« Reply #19 on: June 22, 2022, 08:56:26 AM »

The real problem with ham communications for regular family conversation is that it fundamentally isn't private.

If you can always handle banalities that you don't want the neighbors to hear (you don't get to assume it's anonymous strangers listening in), then it will be fine.

If you want to talk, even in passing, about Uncle Bill's affair and Aunt Tillie's hysterectomy, you won't find it congenial.

Discussing upcoming vacations is a security problem.  You want to broadcast to the world that your home will be unoccupied for a month?  I don't even tell that kind of tale on Facebook.
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CTC60025

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Re: Communicate consistently over 1000's of miles?
« Reply #20 on: June 23, 2022, 10:47:17 AM »

The real problem with ham communications for regular family conversation is that it fundamentally isn't private.

If you can always handle banalities that you don't want the neighbors to hear (you don't get to assume it's anonymous strangers listening in), then it will be fine.

If you want to talk, even in passing, about Uncle Bill's affair and Aunt Tillie's hysterectomy, you won't find it congenial.

Discussing upcoming vacations is a security problem.

Thank you WO7R.
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