Sponsor

Frank Roesch

Callsign

KE5LMN

Announcements

Meetings are held in Room 1121 after school on Tuesday and Thursday at 2:40 PM, and Wednesday morning at 6:50 AM.

What can I do?

• Talk to people on foreign countries. DX'ing is a favorite of many hams!
• Talk to people (both local and far away) on your drive to work.
• Help in emergencies and natural disasters by providing communications
• Help other people become hams. (We call it "Elmering.")
• Hook your computer to your radio and communicate "computer-to-computer." Hams use radio modems.
• Collect QSL cards (cards from other hams) from all over the United States and foreign countries and receive rewards
• Participate in contests or Field Day events
• Provide radio communication services to your local Civil Defense organization through ARES (the Amateur Radio Emergency Service) or RACES (Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service) or even FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency.)
• Aid members of the U.S. military by joining the Army, Air Force or Navy/Marine MARS (Military Affiliate Radio System). See our links section.
• Participate in transmitter hunt games and maybe build your own direction-finding equipment.
• Have someone to talk to on those lonely sleepless nights at home.
• Receive weather pictures via satellites.
• Build radios, antennas, learn some electronics and radio theory.
• Talk to astronauts in space, or use the moon to bounce signals back to people on Earth.
• Experiment with Amateur TV (ATV), Slow-Scan TV (SSTV), or send still-frame pictures by facsimile.
• Lash your ham radio to the public telephone system and call your friends toll free. (Auto patching)
• Communicate through orbiting satellites. (There are many ham satellites in orbit that are owned and operated by the amateur community! And you can use them without any cost whatsoever!)

...and this is only the beginning! You are limited only by your imagination and ingenuity.

Earn your license and become a charter member!

Related Links

• Amateur Radio Emergency Service
• Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Military Affiliate Radio System