What is HAM Radio?!
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What is HAM Radio?
Answers: Ham Radio - Ham Radio communication in a range of frequencies from just above the AM broadcast band (1.6 MHz) to the microwave region, at several hundred gigahertz. These frequencies have been designated for amateur use by the FCC.
Anyone with a radio receiver or a radio scanner can listen in on ham radio communications, but only an operator licensed by the FCC can transmit the signals. Typically, ham radio operators, or hams, do not use ham radio to broadcast in the way radio stations broadcast to large audiences at once. Ham transmission is usually two-way or with groups of people using a transceiver, meaning that two or more hams talk to each other instead of everyone listening to a single ham’s broadcast.
There are hundreds of thousands of amateur radio operators in the U.S. and millions around the world. Ham radio can be useful in spreading information during emergencies when other services such as telephones, television or the Internet fail.
Ham radio also is referred to as amateur radio. Source(s):
http://search.conduit.com/results.aspx?q... Ham radio is where you communicate by radio with other people throughout the world. The people who do this are called Hams. There's a lot of them and they all rejoice in being called hams. They also describe themselves as radio hams. The radio spectrum (range of frequencies) is divided into many "bands" licensed for use for specific purposes: government (military, police, fire, navigation, etc.), commercial (radio and TV broadcast, cellular and satellite telephones, mobile dispatching, etc.) -- and amateur or private radio services. These frequency allocations are coordinated with other countries around the world.
The amateur radio service was authorized nearly 100 years ago and has been a popular hobby and the development grounds for many innovations in radio and related technologies. Early in its history, the amateur service came to be known as Ham Radio , for reasons still argued today.
An excellent summary of Ham Radio, including sound clips, may be found at this ARRL site. http://www.arrl.org/hamradio.html... a peice of meat which tries to sing. what do u think it is. sounds like a radio made of ham but i honestly don't know what it is. It is like CB radio, only a lot more powerful. With HAM, you can talk to someone, on the other side of the world. Peace! Everything that you need to know about Ham (Amateur) Radio is at the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) website here:
http://www.hello-radio.org/whatis.html#o...
Almost every country in the world has its own Amateur Radio Society similar to the ARRL for us here in the USA.
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