Photo of N1IPG car back in the 1990’s The History of the Car Radio Written by Carly Hallman It’s an almost universal experience: People get in the car and turn on their favorite music. But the first car radio wasn’t sold until Chevrolet offered one as an...
The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, MD on Friday, May 24, 1844 — 175 years ago. It signaled the first time in human history that complex thoughts could be communicated at long...
An amateur radio operating award is earned by an amateur radio operator for establishing two-way communication (or “working”) with other amateur radio stations. Some awards are attainable by successfully exchanging call signs and signal reports with other...
OPERATING MODES VOICE Amateurs use a variety of voice, text, image, and data communications modes over radio. A “mode” can be either a modulation mode like AM or FM, or it can be an operating mode like voice, Morse, or packet. There are many additional...
WHAT IS HAM RADIO An amateur radio operator is an individual who typically uses equipment at an amateur radio station to engage in two-way personal communications with other similar individuals, on radio frequencies assigned to the amateur radio service by the Federal...
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