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Are you wanting to get your
Golden Ticket
 to Amateur Radio?

 No longer do United States Citizens need to learn the Morse Code to pass any of the Amateur Radio License Tests for their Amateur Radio License. You can study to get your entry level Amateur Radio License, the Technician Class License.  With your Technician Class License you can begin talking with other Ham Radio Operators in your town and help with working your Ham Radio Club's special events. Click over to How to get your Amateur Radio Operator's License to find many resources to aid you in studying for your ticket to this great radio service. In just a few days if not weeks you too can begin making friends from all over the world via Amateur Radio, or maybe just in your local area chatting with new friends on the 2 meter repeaters.

What is Amateur Radio? The FCC's definition is; "A radio communication service for the purpose of self-training, intercommunication and technical investigations carried out by amateurs, that is, duly authorized persons interested in radio technique solely with a personal aim and without pecuniary interest." However, ask any "Ham" out there and you might get as many different answers. Unlike CB Radio, who can only communicate on 40 channels of a small portion of the 27 MHz section of the radio spectrum and can only communicate using voice (SSB and AM). Amateur Radio operators have 10 different bands of frequencies below 30 MHz and can communicate using many different forms including Morse Code, several different digital modes, television signals, voice modes such as SSB, FM and AM. Many Amateur Radio Operators use output powers over 1,000 watts.

Most Amateur radio sets sold today have output powers up to 100 watts while the CB radio sets, by law, can not be over 12 watts PEP on SSB. If Amateur Radio were to have a menu on just what you could do with it, that menu would be as large as a telephone book. As a matter of fact, the ARRL Amateur Radio Handbook is as large as a telephone book and covers about everything the Radio Ham might want to use their Amateur Radio Station for. I don't have all night to explain to you all that Amateur Radio covers and the many many different methods of communicating. It would take me a year to share it here on my web site. So if you are wanting to explore Amateur Radio, purchase the Handbook from my Amazon link you see here, or maybe look up a local Amateur Radio Club. You will find that most Ham Radio Clubs are a friendly bunch and will assist you in getting your Amateur Radio License.

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Attention other Radio Hams who have a personal web site.
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2008 Collin County, Texas Skywarn Conference. Over 500 Amateur Radio Operators, First Responders, Emergency Service Providers, Boy Scouts, members of the general public and our media partners, meteorologist from KTVT Television in Dallas/Ft. Worth congregated to attend the training provided by the National Weather Service in the Collin County Skywarn Conference. Click on the thumbnail to the left to see a large list of thumbnails of the photographs I took at the conference. Note this date: January 23rd, 2010. This is the date of the next Collin County Skywarn Conference. We will gather at about 8:00am for sign-in and the programs will last until about 4:30pm with a break for lunch. The conference is held at the Collin County Community College Spring Creek Campus Conference Center. That's it in the top right corner of the building. Talk-in is on 147.18MHz/PL 107.2Hz. The campus is just east of the Plano Center where we have HamCom. (I had the flu during the 2009 conference, bummer!)

Photographs of HAMCOM 2009 are now online. Ham-Com is much more than a Hamfest! The DX community’s well-planned agenda of speakers and forums drew record crowds. Over 4,000 people typically attend the two-day event. Ham-Com is one of Amateur Radio’s “must attend” events. Many interest groups make our line up of programs and feature events big attractions for diverse groups of Amateur Radio enthusiasts. Go to HAMCOM.ORG - I still have my photo album of HAMCOM 2008 online. HamCom 2010 will be held on June 11 &12 so schedule a couple of vacation days now.

Ham Radio News found on the Internet........
April 19, 2010......

Ham Radio Growing In The Age Of Twitter - Only a few years ago, blogs listed ham radio alongside 35 mm film and VHS tape as technologies slated to disappear. They were wrong. Nearly 700,000 Americans have ham radio licenses — up 60 percent from 1981, a generation ago. And the number is growing.

Ham radio operators help keep contact in emergencies - Fremont Tribune - Chris Bristol Ham radio operator Dave Theophilus tries to reduce feedback coming through his radio receiver. (Chris Bristol, Fremont Tribune) Technology ...

Voice of America - New hams like Helen Schlarman are part of an upswing in the hobby.
Sitting in a spare bedroom with a compact, two-way radio before her, ...

Boston Marathon: Let's visit Control Central - "Ham radio allows us to pass priority or emergency messages easily due to pre-established repeater networks and the use of basic point to point ...

Sitemap - Hey, it's a Google thing.

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