Let me introduce you to the greatest hobby in the World. Ham Radio has a lot to offer. This page will be directed toward those who want to learn more about what ham radio is, as well as how to get an amateur radio ticket. Further, I will give some web sites where you can obtain a lot of interesting and useful information concerning ham radio.


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The way in which communications are accomplished is just as interesting as the people you get to meet. Signals can be sent around the world using reflective layers of the ionosphere or beamed from point to point from mountaintops by relay stations. There are satellites in orbit that hams have built and hams presently use to achieve communication. Still other hams bounce their signals off the moon! The possibilities are almost unlimited......As new techniques and modes of communication are developed, hams continue their long tradition of being the first to use them.

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INTRODUCTION:
WHAT IS AMATEUR RADIO?link
1. information from ARRL Headquarters.link
2. getting started in ham radio.link
3. On-air W1AW Code practice schedule.link
4. How to find a ham radio club near you. link

HISTORY:
1. History of people and their inventions which made radio possible.link
2. The American Radio Relay League: (early history)link
3.United States early history (amateur)link
Some early history...About early U.S radio history...
1. Period overview (1896-1927)link
2. The electric telegraph (1860-1914)link
3. News and entertainment by telephone (1876-1925)link
4. Personal communications by wireless (1879-1922)link
5. Radio at sea (1891-1916)link
6. Early radio industry development (1897-1914) link
7. Pioneering U. S. avtivities (1897-1917)link
8. Alternator-Transmitter development (1891-1920)link
9. Arc-Transmitter Development (1904-1921)link
10. Audion and vacuum tube receiver development (1907-1916)link
11. Pre-War Vacuum-tube transmitter development (1914-1917)link
12. Pioneering Amateurs (1900-1917)link
13. Radio during World War One (1914-1919)link
14. Expanded audion and vacuum-tube development(1917-1924)link
15. Amateur radio after WW1 (1919-1924)link
16. Broadcasting after WW1 (1918-1921)link
17. Big business and radio (1915-1922)link
18. Broadcasting becomes widespread (1922-1923)link
19. The development of radio networks (1919-1926)link
20. Financing radio broadcasting (1898-1927)link
21. Fakes, Frauds, and Cranks (1866-1922)link
22. Word Origins (Reviews of the history of the words "radio", "broadcast" and "ham"link
23. Early Government Regulation (1903-1946)link
24. Original Articles.link

ACTIVITY:
1.A short outline of the activities of amateur radio station W8EEO.link
If you have any problems or suggestions for this site send me a message by email
Send to:w8eeo at suddenlink dot net

updated 10/18/09