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** What can I do with a ham radio license?
There are so many things, it's a difficult question to answer, but
here's some ideas:
* Talk to people in foreign countries. * Talk to people (both local and far away) on
your drive to work.
* Help in emergencies by providing communications. * Provide communications in parades
or walkathons.
* Help other people become hams. * Hook your computer to your radio for data transfer.
* Collect QSL cards (cards from other hams) from all over the United States and
foreign countries and receive awards.
* Participate in contests or Field Day events. * Provide radio services to your local
Civil Defense organization through ARES (Amateur Radio Emergency Service) or RACES
(Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service).
* Aid members of the US military by joining MARS (Military Affiliate Radio System).
* Participate in transmitter hunt games and build your own direction-finding equipment.
* Have someone to talk to on those sleepless nights at home. * Receive weather
pictures via satellites.
* Build radios, antennas, learn some electronics and radio theory.
* Talk to astronauts in space / use the moon to bounce signals back to people on Earth.
* Experiment with Amateur TV (ATV), Slow-Scan TV (SSTV), or send fax pictures.
* Experiment with amateur satellite communications and worldwide data networking.