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is a licensed, noncommercial radio service where people use radio for personal communication, experimentation, and public service. In the US the issues licenses, and hundreds of thousands of Americans hold one. chat across town and across oceans, help during storms when phones fail, compete in contests, bounce signals off the moon, and talk to astronauts on the International Space Station. Nobody knows for sure where the name "ham" came from, and old-timers love to argue about it.
Level 1 · Lesson 1.1
What is ham radio?
“Pull up a chair. Ham radio is just neighbors talking, except your neighbors might be in Tokyo or on the space station.”
You'll be able to
define amateur radio, name 4 things hams do, explain why a license is required.
Tap an underlined word for its meaning.