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Photographs of HAMCOM 2008 are now online >HERE< Stuff listed on eBay >HERE<
 DX
Handbook I personally feel that DX chasing is the most fun part of Ham
Radio. I have been non-seriously chasing DX for over thirty years and not going
the extra effort to get that beloved QSL card back in the mail. For the past
year I have taken a more serious attempt to make DXCC and on the the Honor Roll. Click over to my DX Handbook where I
share plenty of information I have gathered over the decades of DXing and QSLing.
Things like QSL tips and tricks, Where to buy those IRCs.
Understanding Propagation and more.
The Legal Notice or Fine Print: All of the content on this web site known as http://www.kd5om.com is the sole Intellectual Property of Jerry Michael Karlovich a.k.a. Amateur Radio Operator KD5OM of Plano, Texas, USA and is hereby protected by all US & International Copyrights and Intellectual Property Laws. The content here-in these web pages is information that has been learned in the course of operating as an Amateur Radio Operator over the course of thirty two years. Any resemblance to other Copyrighted Information is merely coincidental. If you chose to use any of the information found on these web pages on your web site, a link back to this home page will be required if not simply appreciated. So There. |
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Why The Amateur Radio Service Exists: §97.1 Basis and purpose. The rules and regulations in this Part are designed to provide an amateur radio service having a fundamental purpose as expressed in the following principles: (a) Recognition and enhancement of the value of the amateur service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communication service, particularly with respect to providing emergency communications. (b) Continuation and extension of the amateur's proven ability to contribute to the advancement of the radio art. (c) Encouragement and improvement of the amateur service through rules which provide for advancing skills in both the communications and technical phases of the art. (d) Expansion of the existing reservoir within the amateur radio service of trained operators, technicians, and electronics experts. (e) Continuation and extension of the amateur's unique ability to enhance international goodwill. |
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What is the Amateur Radio Service? Amateur Radio is a public service created by the Federal Communications Commission or FCC and has over 600,000 radio operators in the United States. This service is about communications and various ways of communicating via radio waves. Amateur Radio Operators are affectionately known as Hams or Ham Radio Operators. What most people do not understand about the Amateur Radio Service and the Hams that operate their stations, are that they are the most dependable when police & fire communications and cell phones fail in a disaster situation. Cellular Telephones are the first to fail after disaster strikes. The Ham Radio community has emergency networks set up all over the world that can be activated quickly if there is a disaster. At the site of The World Trade Center in New York City, amateurs worked for weeks side by side with rescue crews supplying communications after the attacks of September 11, 2001. As the name Amateur implies, these Hams receive absolutely no financial compensation for their time and their service is anything but amateurish. When disaster strikes, such as forest fires or tornadoes, the first thing to be compromised is local emergency communications and cell phone service. When the electrical power is lost, the only thing the public service agencies can rely on are those Hams that can deploy and have two way portable radio stations set up in minutes. Many of these Hams were involved recently in the hurricanes that landed on the Gulf coast states in 2005. Prior these Hams held hurricane watch networks on shortwave frequencies all over the world and were watching and reporting the advance of these storms. Once these storms landed on shore, the Hams set up communication networks to pass traffic. This traffic was not only for the rescue groups and served agencies. Plenty of health and welfare traffic was also handled for people trying the get in touch with relatives in the stricken areas. It is always a wonderful event for a family in a stricken area to get a message out to family that confirms that they are well. Hams also serve as Storm Spotters for the NWS or National Weather Service. Every NWS office has Ham operators on duty anytime there is the threat of severe storms in their served area. Although the NWS has high tech Doppler radar, these radars can not interpret the storms as a trained Storm Spotter on the ground can. These trained Ham Radio Operator Storm Spotters report directly to other Hams physically operating from the NWS offices. Once a year, thousands of Hams from all over the United States gather for Storm Spotter training. This all day training is conducted by the actual Severe Storm Forecasters of the NWS. After this special Storm Spotter classroom training, these Hams hone their skills weekly on their own radio networks as on the air training. These radio networks often simulate disaster events to make their training as real life as possible. Not IF but when the time arrives, these Hams will be best prepared to provide the needed emergency communications. These Ham Radio Operators may not be cited as heroes; however, they are always there when needed to serve the public agencies. The important point to remember is the Hams provide their services at no cost to the served agencies and all the equipment used is bought and paid for by the Amateur |
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US! If you have a web site that features Amateur Radio activities, antennas,
license testing, DX operations, NET Traffic Handling or anything that has to
with this great hobby/service of ours, I would like to exchange a link from your
site to mine and I will do the same for you. Why would we want to do this you
ask? For the simple reason it builds traffic, shares more information across the
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