Ham Radio Operators

[Clayton k Cross]

How many of y'all are Ham Radio technician class or higher?

 

[dhodges]

I hold a higher-class license plus MARS endorsement

 

[Clayton k Cross]

What is a MARS endorsement @dhodges?

 

[Jim Bayer]

How many of y'all are Ham Radio technician class or higher?

KC9AOP - Jim. General

 

[Shaun Kelly]

Extra.

 

[RPatrickDTW]

What is a MARS endorsement @dhodges?

Air Force Military Auxiliary Radio Systems (AFMARS)

afmars.com

 

[Ben Holcomb]

General - WX8BEN

Really not a lot of radio traffic out there anymore on chases. I assume everyone just using phones nowadays for comms?

 

[Shaun Kelly]

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.

 

[Michael F. Socha]

N9KSF general license. Advanced Storm Spotter. Storm chasing with College of DuPage-Paul Sirvatka

 

[Clayton k Cross]

N9KSF general license. Advanced Storm Spotter. Storm chasing with College of DuPage-Paul Sirvatka

Do you have Paul Sirvatka's email so I can interview him for an interview for a podcast?

 

[Randy Jennings]

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).

 

[Lou Ruh]

Extra ... WX3I

 

[Brian R.]

KC9MSG. Run the skywarn group for my ham radio club as well as the skywarn section on our discord page. Restarting my chase team this season which will be called Tri-County Storm Intercept Team based out of Chicago and cover Northern Cook, Lake and McHenry counties.

 

[Clayton k Cross]

KC9MSG. Run the skywarn group for my ham radio club as well as the skywarn section on our discord page. Restarting my chase team this season which will be called Tri-County Storm Intercept Team based out of Chicago and cover Northern Cook, Lake and McHenry counties.

That's cool, I'm going to try and start chasing with some buddies in Southern Illinois, wich is about 4-5 hours away from u, this summer