Why You Should Learn to Love Ham Radio

 

Why You Should Learn to Love Ham Radio

“”This is KD4DYV,” I said, announcing my ham-radio call sign for the first time in twenty years. “Can anyone hear me?”

Static.

I fiddled with my handheld radio, an old Icom IC-W2A, and tried again. Nothing. The radio was all that remained of a childhood hobby, back when I also had a big, boxy rig hooked up to a thirty-two-foot antenna in my parents’ backyard, and a Morse-code key for tapping out messages. The technical name for all this is amateur radio, an old-timey pursuit in which operators pass a test, acquire a license and call sign from the Federal Communications Commission, and then spend their days chitchatting across the globe. The term ham was once an insult, a name professionals gave to amateurs with clumsy Morse skills and mediocre equipment.”

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