I know there are some HAM Radio folks on the indieweb and adjacent, so I’m passing along this question from my dad:
My Yaesu VX-8DR will receive APRS beacons but won’t send my beacon or send or receive APRS messages, settings seem correct.
Anyone have suggestions?
@Ron In the conversation around the matching shirts and name tags from Jean’s Father’s Day post, she mentioned that the photo was from his 80th birthday party a few years ago, if I’m remembering correctly (the conversation link is long gone, and I can’t get to my replies to search for it there ;-) ). And that he taught at the same HS as my best friend from age 0-6 mos (and later in college) graduated from, but he retired just before she got there.
Maybe I'll ask him for his recollections about WWII. Does he remember the bomb? Did he like FDR or Truman better? Stuff like that. 😊 💣
That would make a fun history project. Everyone’s always interviewing those who went to war, but I don’t know that I’ve really seen any interviews of people who lived through WWII on the homefront. (One time I did think to ask my grandmother a few questions about her job at Westinghouse during the war, but by the time I did so, her best storytelling days were behind her.)