Contesting. See how many contacts you can make in a certain time. Compare your score with friends and rivals. Improve your station. Does it help your score improve?
Satellite grid chasing - using amateur satellites to contact every “grid square” in the country.
There are also awards. Some are easy to obtain (confirmed contact on any band with 100 countries), but can you work the world on just one band?
Don’t like talking? Digital modes eliminate pesky talking.
Want to learn to solder? Make your own antenna. Make it better. Make it bigger.
Have friends nearby with radios? Use your radios as direction finding equipment and have a “fox hunt”. Find the hidden transmitter!
Are you an insane conspiracy theorist who believes the covid vaccine will turn you gay, blind, and autistic? Boy do I have good news for you. 75m band is chock full of yokels, Magas, and covidiot gun nuts for you to trade insane rantings with.
Satellite grid chasing - using amateur satellites to contact every “grid square” in the country.
There are also awards. Some are easy to obtain (confirmed contact on any band with 100 countries), but can you work the world on just one band?
Don’t like talking? Digital modes eliminate pesky talking.
Want to learn to solder? Make your own antenna. Make it better. Make it bigger.
Have friends nearby with radios? Use your radios as direction finding equipment and have a “fox hunt”. Find the hidden transmitter!
Are you an insane conspiracy theorist who believes the covid vaccine will turn you gay, blind, and autistic? Boy do I have good news for you. 75m band is chock full of yokels, Magas, and covidiot gun nuts for you to trade insane rantings with.
Should I keep going?