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Ham Radio Operators

Ham radio user?

  • yes

    Votes: 7 87.5%

  • no

    Votes: 1 12.5%
  • Total voters
    8
During the last two years, and especially during my vacation slot down south, I heard chasers on 2m only maybe a handful of times, and FRS/GMRS maybe twice as often, but not as often as I would expect. I know a bunch of streaming chasers are using PTT over Cellular/Network radio type things, I think based on some of the talk permit tones probably Motorola Wave, but that's just guesswork.

My local chase partners are still coordinating on 2m ham frequencies.
 
KF5LKL extra

I often don't turn on my radio when chasing except when 1) in my home WFO area to patriciate in a Skywarn net, 2) my chase partner is in a different vehicle than me (rare - but it happened on 1 of the 2 chases I have done this year), or 3) another chaser who is a ham is known to be in the same area (usually this is Daniel Shaw and I actually talked with him on my chase last night over UHF).
 
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