Posts filed under Ham Radio

April 17, 2009

Ham radio Communications

Ham Radio communications via two way radio occurs daily in most countries around the world, where conversations between licensed radio amateurs take place on hundreds of thousands of different radio frequencies. What’s more, these 2-way radio communications take place by voice, morse code and a heap of different digital modes, including amateur television, slow-scan TV, [...]

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Cute Little 10m Ham Radio

Some years ago, Radio Shack used to make a 10m Ham radio which could transmit and receive 28 and 29 MHz signals in AM/SSB/FM and CW (Morse code) modes. The cute little Amateur Radio transceiver was known as the HTX-10, and you won’t find it on the Radio Shack web site pages any more. The [...]

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Who Uses A Morse Code Key In 2009?

Who’d use a Morse Code Key in the 21st Century? I don’t, although I learned the code some years back when I first earned my Ham Radio ticket. But thousands of people still use Morse Code to communicate with on two-way radios. Why? Samuel Finlay Morse invented the telegraphic code in the late 1800s, and [...]

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