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Offline ChrisSmolinski

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Interest in Ham Radio soaring as country grips with virus outbreak
« on: March 18, 2020, 1522 UTC »
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Re: Interest in Ham Radio soaring as country grips with virus outbreak
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2020, 0926 UTC »
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In a comparison of the time period from March 5-13, 2020, to the same days in 2019, the number of persons signing up for amateur radio license courses on HamRadioPrep.com has soared more than 700% since news of the coronavirus outbreak dominated headlines.

They've gone from 1 student to 8. Throw a party!
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Re: Interest in Ham Radio soaring as country grips with virus outbreak
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2020, 1359 UTC »
Hearing more unusual signals hitting the local repeaters, so Baofeng sales are probably up.
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Re: Interest in Ham Radio soaring as country grips with virus outbreak
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2020, 2012 UTC »
Quote from: chanito on March 21, 2020, 1359 UTC
Hearing more unusual signals hitting the local repeaters, so Baofeng sales are probably up.

LOL!!!
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Re: Interest in Ham Radio soaring as country grips with virus outbreak
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2020, 0116 UTC »
I do not encourage any radio regulations.    8)

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Re: Interest in Ham Radio soaring as country grips with virus outbreak
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2020, 1823 UTC »
Yeah... This month we've got new HAM's and Generals upgrades. Ironically, not more repeater activity, but I did talk to one of the new HAM's on our area 10M USB chit-chat FREQ.
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