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Sunday, 24 April 2011 20:36 |
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Amateur radio is great fun. It is the most interesting, educational, democratic and rewarding hobby in the world today. Amateur radio is the personal use and experimentation with radio equipment for local, worldwide and space communications. Radio amateurs communicate with other amateurs across town or around the world on special sets of radio frequencies allocated for our specific use. We are legally licensed to talk with any of the other six million amateurs in more than 300 countries around the world, including
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Last Updated ( Monday, 19 September 2011 07:56 )
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 28 April 2011 10:40 |
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You can begin as a listener on the amateur bands now, but to transmit you must have an Amateur Communication Station License that is issued by the Ministry of Communications and Works. In return for being granted a License, and thousands of “channels” in 23 frequency bands to operate in, Radio Amateurs are required to pass a test in basic electronic theory, practical & regulations. The test is not hard, and the study enjoyable because you are learning about something you are interested in. Many 10-16 year olds are Amateurs along with
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 28 April 2011 10:41 |
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If you want to listen to radio amateurs, you will need a receiver. Not a normal broadcast receiver, but one which can cover the bands on which radio amateurs transmit, and which can “decode” the special sort of speech transmission which amateurs use. This is called “SSB” or single sideband. Look for an “SSB” position on short-wave radio receivers. If you have that, then you can connect an antenna to your receiver (a few metres of wire outside and clear of buildings will suffice). Tune to the following bands at the times shown and you should hear amateurs.
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