Supposed to be freezing and rainy here. Not sure I’ll make it out to a park, but I’ll try my best to hunt for y’all!

Yes, you must pass the general exam before taking the amateur extra exam.

Ha sorry. Forgot mentioning the account from another service would create a post here. But still happy to see y’all!

I’ve had sats/ISS on my list of things to learn for a while. Maybe 2025 will be the year I get that yagi built.

Nice! I did the exact same thing. Remote exam in my bathroom. Congrats on the tech and general. If you plan on the extra, do it before you forget anything from the general because there’s a lot of carry over from the test.

It’s both. SK, Stop Keying, is used in CW (morse) whenever a station is done transmitting. SK is also Silent Key, but you’ll rarely hear the abbreviation over voice or CW.

Could be that ARRL was down then. All links work for me.

Yea in a community you only see the community info. The “official” sidebar is only on the main feed

What do you see and what link are you using? On my Mac in safari at lemmy.radio I can see it. Not in a community

The general sidebar on the right has some links for how to get into amateur radio.

Not a lemmy dev so I’m not the go to on issues. I had that issue on Firefox though.

I feel like every year since I’ve been licensed and an ARRL member, I’ve become less enthused by the ARRL. To the point where this may be my last year as a member.

Also a thought: I use a few ARRL links in our side bar I wouldn’t mind changing to non-ARRL links. Open to suggestions.

I do enjoy my morserino-32. It was an educational experience to build and it has definitely helped my cw comprehension