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Here's your invitation to a friendly, high-tech hobby that's got something fun for everyone! You can become an Amateur Radio operator -- no matter what age, gender or physical ability. People from all walks of life pass their entry-level exam and earn their Amateur (Ham) Radio license. They all share the diverse world of activities you can explore with ham radio. You never know who you'll run into when communicating with Amateur Radio: Young people, retirees, teachers and students, engineers and scientists, doctors, mechanics and technicians, homemakers, kings, presidents, ...
What Can Amateur Radio Operators Do? Ham radio operators use two-way radio stations from their homes, cars, boats and outdoors to make hundreds of friends around town and around the world. They communicate with each other using voice, computers, and Morse code. Some hams bounce their signals off the upper regions of the atmosphere, so they can talk with hams on the other side of the world. Other hams use satellites. Many use hand-held radios that fit in their pockets.
Hams exchange pictures of each other using television or facsimile. Some also like to work on electronic circuits, building their own radios and antennas. A few pioneers in Amateur Radio have even contributed to advances in technology that we all enjoy today. There are even ham-astronauts who take radios with them on space shuttle missions and thrill thousands of hams on earth with a call from space!
Come and Join the fun! For more information please visit the ARRL - American Radio Relay League - pages at http://www.arrl.org