Finding Hams & Amateur Radio Clubs Near You ~ 09/04/2024

[@gregchartrand8848]

So I've used the maps and find a plethora of hams surrounding me in every direction, isn't that wonderful. BUT maybe one out 0f twenty of them actually use their license and operate! I drew a circle around my house with a radius of one mile and that shows 37 licensed hams, WOW, amazing isn't it? Well I looked up all the calls in QRZ and found that all but two of them (including me) have no activity shown using "lookups" as the value measure of activity. Lookups occur when contacts are made and hams are curious about the operator. I concluded that most licensed persons have done so as a "prepper" in case of a catastrophic incident where communications are a part of survival. I'm certain that most if not all of them have a cheap VHF/UHF Chinese radio they think will aid them in some way when civilization begins dissolving. I doubt that nearly all of them would not know how to use the radio effectively or if such a radio would be of any value. If you want to find a fellow ham to whom you would like to get to know, share radio experiences and so on, you have to use the map AND QRZ to find those rare hams who actually use their license.

[@RATPAC]

That's partly were the red vs.. blue dots come in on QRZ Maps. Red dots indicate stations with a managed QRZ account