Questions for flying hams

I had thought about installing ham gear in the RV-7 I was building. Decided against it, since I really haven't used the dual bander in my vehicle in years other than to listen to AWOS and the local CTAF. Repeater activity around here is just about nil, and I never did get into APRS.

Now that I'm flying the RV-12, it would just be too much hassle to try to retrofit a rig into the panel. If I ever update the radio and intercom, I may make provisions to patch in a handheld. On longer cross country flights it might be nice to see who's around on simplex frequencies.

For those of you who fly and are hams... here's a poll. And please note that I messed up one of the options. " I'm active airborne, but not flying" should read, "I'm active airborne, but not on the ground". I can't edit the poll.

On the subject of ham radio ,do understand about your local “and most”repeater not being used. At the present time I am without airplane “years ago had a c172”,and also not flying in any mode. ….. My current usage of ham radio and aviation. Is talking to a buddy, via simplex ,on two meters or 440mz. While he is doing local flying............ Years ago when I was flying my Sky Hawk, the best usage of ham radio ,was on flying to “Sun-in-fun”. From the Midwest states, was to talk “simplex” “”air to air”” ,too 2 friends ,that were also flying, when we caravan ing Florida........ The caravan consisted ,of me in my C172 ,and to a friend, in his c150, and another friend in his piper warrior. It goes with out saying, us camping at Sun-in-Fun, made the fact of three people ,and three airplane the only way for us,to do this trip ..... . Also on the last years of that sun-in-fun trip I was running APRS , via/ rubber duck antenna out of my Sky Hawk, having APRS gave me the way of, seeing the track for the day when I got stop ed at the end of the day.......... …. good day /rick........ @@ sorry i cannot format this message , with paragraphs, on this forum....

Seems like I've seen more interest in ham radio lately for some reason. Anyway, I just bought a new handheld earlier this year, right before OSH. N5KLA.

Maybe someone could/would designate a simplex freq. for OSH 2018.

I see aprs while flying and nothing on the ground. This wasn’t an option in your poll.

The third option, "I'm active airborne, but not flying" should read, "I'm active airborne, but not on the ground". I can't edit the poll, and I couldn't delete the whole thread and start over.

I thought this thread was going to be about GoPro cameras and YouTube. ;)

N1RN here. I've not really done much ham stuff since the last two moves. Wife and I used to carry 2m/70cm dual banders all the time. In fact, we'd have regular meet ups with .recaviators at Osh coordinated over the radios. However between cell phones and the internet, a lot of the lustre of ham has tarnished.