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Pretty cool documentary. I enjoyed watching. I’m an Amateur Radio Operator, W7IVD from South Florida. I love ham radio and being on the air. There was a statement that one of the operators said that is so true: Every time you’re on the radio, it’s an experiment. This couldn’t be further from the truth. You will eventually run into something that tests your knowledge in troubleshooting a problem or figuring out something you haven’t run into before. I also agree with the other station that said: CW operators are a lot more experienced than a regular radio operator. This is true. I love CW 📻

Really such a fantastically put together video, kudos! I remember watching this shortly after it came out- a few months later I got my ham license. It’s been tons of fun!

Good job guys 👏 I like it

I had a great uncle who was a HAM operator when I was a kid before he passed he have me a bunch of cards he had hopefully some day I can get into it

This documentary is beautifully done. Thanks, Grace & team. Love the music & it sounds great. Question: did Grace get her license??

No Joe Walsh interview?

Now time to do a video on CB Superbowl channel 6 and the shootout contests.

the downside of this tech are they just using HF all over time instead re-invented VHF or UHF to long distance communication, yeaah i know all the stuff, propagation and so on, but come on, we have technology now, why not using VHF to very long distance communication, range on 140 to 148 on FM

I wish they had shown what many hams have, a 100w radio with a wire antenna, and they are able to make contacts all over the world.

That's the beauty of ham radio which is an absolutely wonderful hobby. There's so many things you can do there for so many different forms of communication. It's awesome! Nothing else like it 73s G0HDA

Unfortunately, it’s a dying hobby mostly made up of older men. With today’s internet-connected smartphones and the expansion of satellite communication on mobile devices, it seems increasingly outdated.

Been A Ham since 1998, and love this world. I’ve been president of a ham radio club, and lived from inside the job hams do to encourage people to embrace and enjoy amateur radio. As it was said in this amazing movie, ham radio is not dying, it’s evolving. And that evolution is the road to a future ham radio, in the hands of new hams that have a different relation with technology than ours. That’s why encouraging young people into radio, and assimilating new modes, new technology and new hams is vital to keep hams on the air for many generations.

to the people who spent their time and effort making this documentary, i am overwhelmed with gratitude, for showing the people and their stories, behind the radio waves. thank you

I have to save this to my favorites. Tonight on our local net, Net Control looked it up. I would like to wish all that read this a 61 to you and yours !

I'm a younger ham and a woman. I loved your documentary. I'm an extra and hope to pass the radio bug to my children. I've elmered lots of young folks into the hobby and signed a lot of tickets (I signed their papers when they passed their ham radio exams). I'm very hopeful on the future of ham, let's keep experimenting and communicating with each other around the world. My grandfather was a ham licensed in the 1920s and I collect his QSL cards off ebay when they pop up. It's my little link to the past with his handwriting and transmission quality notes. 73s!

Just got my license a few days ago and joined my first net in my town, I’m 12 and am just a starter. Christmas is in ages days and want a base station so I can start my own shack, I’m working with a uv5r and a few home made and a car antennas. KJ5JHV

This is a nice documentary. What the general public doesn't know is that radio is still the basis for all high tech activities. The hobby is actually bursting at the seams. We now have POTA (Parks on the Air) and SOTA (Summits on the Air). Podcasts wouldn't be possible without microphones that take voice and turn them into waves and back again. Marconi would be gobsmacked at what Hams are doing today in the digital realm. FT8 and Meshtastic. In fact, amateur radio operators are on the bleeding edge of technology. I currently use a Hermes Lite 2 HF SDR (Software Defined Receiver) transceiver with Thetis software to communicate all around the world. That may change by next month because of so much innovation. Most of the innovation is coming from Hams, not big tech companies. You come into my ham shack and you'll see something out of a sci-fi movie. I'm literally using touchscreens to choose what I listen to, I'm literally seeing and touching the radio spectrum. I can see propagation on a worldwide map at a glance. I'm making contact with people 4,000 miles away with no more power than what is needed for a night light. Weak signal, strong signal, short or long distance, amateur radio people, or Hams, are the greatest group of people I have ever met. And when the cell phones stop working, the radio waves always work. Not a week goes by there there is not something new coming out for Hams. Grace, thank you for doing this film.

Wonderful documentary about the HAM and HAM spirit. It is just understandable by anyone. Not too technical, some footage from the past and pioneer in moon bouncing communications. 👏🏻👏🏻 73 to the students film makers and to all HAM. LX1DH David

Love it. Nice work everyone.

I'm currently 15 and I also feel related to the idea of Amateur Radio. I got my license recently and became obsessed with the hobby.

Like some dumb Napoleon Dynamite spinoff

Donating plasma once a week is even worse. And they just sell it to pharmaceutical companies to make expensive products. Most of it doesnt go to people who need straight-up plasma.

Good réalisation.bravo.

Looks so good, the biking shots were rad!

love this!

What a good lookin dude 🥵

Figures the very first contact would use improper phonetics. Bloody Americans.

Awesome

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I love the way you used the Nelson clips and how you incorporated the audio snippets from the chat show.

I’ve been vaguely interested in ham radio all summer, then hurricane Helen hit and that’s what’s lit a fire under my butt to get my license. I want to be able to call for or give out help when cell service and the internet has failed.

Very nice !!! congratulations !!! , best 73 de SV8ANW

…67 year old here in the UK, retired, needed a hobby, just bought a boafeng uv 5r, just waiting for a larger antenna and a CHIRP cable😉, am studying for my foundation licence…

According to the FCC, the unit of the federal government that oversees Amateur Radio, Amateur Radio is a service, not a hobby. Some operators need to be reminded of this.

KE0TQI got into ham in a bad time in my life. I’ve had a lot of bad experiences with “SAD” hams and even in this video CW operators think they are better operators than other. Tried giving away my equipment to new hams or hams without equipment and no one wanted them. This hobby is very clicky. If you’re not a big contest or TH-camr you won’t get the time of day. Wish more operators were more open and not big headed. 73 KE0TQI

Iam form Bangladesh.

Excellent video on ham radio. I loved the moment of space shuttle Columbia was. Along cQ. I wasn’t licensed then but I tried connecting with the shuttle ba k in 1992 when I got my amateur extra.

73 everyone from KP4TEM.

Thanks very much for this, 73.

One small step for Ham one giant leap for Hamkind 😊

Very nice to see something positive about a hobby and passion for learning. I am currently a free-bander but will be testing soon for my ticket.

Ham dilly um nong, ding-dong, ding-dong.

I am not and have never been a ham radio operator. However, my dad was a ham operator from the early 50's (possibly since the 1940's) until his death in 1950. I have his logbook, and I saw that I wrote my name in his logbook in 1959 when I was 4 years old. He operated in the Panama Canal Zone, Nebraska, and New Jersey. He was a radar operator for the Army Air Force at the end of WWII on the Galapagos Islands. We would take cross country road trips, and he put his ham antenna on our car, and brought his radio to talk with. We had a tall tower in our back yard with his ham antenna. Thanks for posting this documentary.

1:29 Ah yes the ol butt can

What a ridiculous exercise in ______. NASA if they had any good judgement, they would have placed this entire activity, on the....CB Band!! If you want a REAL Sllice of genuine American radio (and social) activity, just ask for contacts on the CB Frequncies...then release the proceedings to the world press as an example of America life.....😅😅😅

Excellent. Thank you.

73 de KF4LBG

4X5KD here, I'm 17 y/o and got in the hobby at 15. I think the hobby is very gatekept. I got into the hobby because of my grandfather but otherwise I wouldn't know it or know how much I wanna become a RF Engineer. My hope is to inspire my friends to pursue the same path.

That was an awesome documentary!

First of all, I think the reason most of the guys that are into this hobby are greying is because it's not until then that you settle down enough to enjoy the simple things in life. I definitely want to get a technicians licence, but I'm also not interested in all that equipment. Geeze oh man 😬