WUZombies
Adventurist
When you're driving out of your usual area do you flip your dual-band over to one of the typical national calling frequencies on 2M and/or 70cm, do frequency scans, do you check Repeater Book and try new repeaters, leave your radio off or something else?
Depending on how bored I get (e.g. how bad traffic is), I might let my radio sit on 146.52, let it run through frequency limited scans for traffic or try random nearby repeaters that I've found on the Repeater Book app on my phone. Rarely do I have my HAM radio turned off. I've made good QSOs with simplex check in's and with local repeaters. Sometimes the repeater from Repeater Book is a linked repeater and I didn't know.
What do you do?
Depending on how bored I get (e.g. how bad traffic is), I might let my radio sit on 146.52, let it run through frequency limited scans for traffic or try random nearby repeaters that I've found on the Repeater Book app on my phone. Rarely do I have my HAM radio turned off. I've made good QSOs with simplex check in's and with local repeaters. Sometimes the repeater from Repeater Book is a linked repeater and I didn't know.
What do you do?