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 Are you wanting to get your Amateur Radio
Ticket?No longer do you need to learn the Morse Code to pass any of the Amateur Radio Licenses for U.S. Hams. Click over to How to get your Ham 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.
 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 (also called ham radio) is a hobby and a service enjoyed by about 3 million people throughout the world and over 600,000 in the USA alone. It is about communications and the multiple ways of communicating through radio waves. What most people do not know about this hobby and the people that are operators is that they are one of the most used groups as means of emergency communication, when other conventional means of communications fail, in a disaster situation for example. Local communications is one of the first things to go away in case of a disaster such as hurricanes or tornadoes. Phones and electricity go down and the only thing left is amateur radio operators that can operate from a battery and a piece of wire for an antenna. These operators have networks set up all over the world that can be immediately activated and used to coordinate disaster relief activities. Recent examples include the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, when amateurs worked weeks side by side with rescue crews supplying communications. Amateur operators were also involved this last year in all the hurricanes that we had all over the world. They have been watching and reporting the advance of the storms, setting up nets to pass traffic for rescue groups as well as passing health and welfare traffic to people trying the get in touch with relatives in the stricken area. They carry a message out to someone that says we are ok and we are alive and that is always great. The National Weather Service might have great radars, but a radar can't see the storms like human eyes can. Just ask someone that works for the weather service about the role of radio operators and you will get one answer- they are the "eyes" of the National Weather Service. They are on duty any time that there are storms in the area. Any time of day and night these people are watching storms and reporting what they see. Their accurate reports can be used immediately by the weather service and further by the local radio and TV stations which broadcast the reported data to the public. Amateur radio operators are saving thousands of lives each year, yet this gets almost no recognition. And the kicker is that their service is at no cost to the public. As mentioned before, amateur radio is a personal hobby; this means the operators buy all their own radio equipment. And they use it for public safety. Whenever needed to warn the public of danger. |
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LINK TO
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
web, and not to mention it helps us both get a higher ranking of importance with
the search engines, especially Google. Go to my 
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Things Ham Radio & Me.
