Reid Russell

Software Engineer • Tinkerer

KJ5JQC

It has been over a week, but I am excited to have passed the technician level amateur radio license exam and have been issued a call-sign: KJ5JQC. The purpose of getting this was to:

  1. Understand the rules and regulations around the radio spectrum better
  2. Gain priviledges to use certain frequency ranges for the drone and antenna projects
  3. Get my foot in the door of a community that is more familiar with the nuances of RF engineering than I currently am, and can possibly help / answer questions that I have in the future.

I will probably pursue the General and Extra license classes soon - mainly because they open up frequencies in the HF band, which is the band used for long range communications.

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