Daniel Taylor

im pretty much in the same boat as you, been licensed about a year and just started messing with cluster spots a few months ago. the filtering thing was confusing me too for a while. one thing that helped me was just watching the spots for a band i knew was open and seeing which ones i could actually hear — after a few sessions you start to get a feel for whats realistic from your location and what to just ignore. i tried like four different apps before settling on one i actually like, some of them are just ugly or dont update fast enough. still havent found anything perfect tbh

ok so i passed my technician exam like two months ago and ive been mostly just doing 2m stuff but i want to get on HF eventually. my buddy told me techs can do some HF but i honestly dont fully understand what part 97 actually says about it. like i know theres privileges on 10m but what about 40m? i thought i heard something about CW on certain bands but im not sure if thats still a thing or if the rules changed. i dont want to transmit somewhere im not supposed to and get in trouble with the FCC before i even know what im doing. anyone have a simple breakdown or know where in part 97 i should actually be looking because the FCC website is kind of a wall of text