It be far better just to.pay for ham license and GMR license
I hear ham operators in my scanner using call letters and numbers and what state and city their in most ham operators
Is electronic talk
On cb radio you can get skip or ssb
Tsar Bomba (AN602) October 30, 1961. Its detonation brought everyone to the table to sign an arms proliferation treaty. Wrapping your rig in foil wonât work. Youâd need to place it in a properly constructed Faraday cage. The Electromagnetic Pulse would fry electronic components, but an older rig using tube technology or even older may make it without harm. Nobody wants to be the guy that uses a nuclear weapon.
Note the atomic fireball
Which could be 1,00000degrees or hot as the sun can vaporized aluminum ham radio TX /receive antennas but even if ham radio is protected from EMP it still be hard to broadcast for help due to radioactivity interference.
Back then fema CD civil defense says tune in to conrad stations
When that movie broadcast on tv the day after it scared a lot of people the phones was ringing at red crisis centers to churches
The scene of people being hit by gamma rays
Was very graphic known as being Xrayed to death thier skeletons was showing a nuclear nightmare.
Why the technical part of the test? One reason is that hams are allowed to build their own equipment and that means having some idea of how to do that. At least enough to keep from killing yourself immediately, you know?
The technician class license came about because of VHF, UHF usage. It was ânewâ and people didnât know much about it. So, the users had to have an idea of how to design/make equipment in that range. So they were more âtechnicallyâ oriented than others.
And of course it acts as a gatekeeping function - people need to put a bit of effort into their hobby. Retention rate is no very good anyway, but the idea of seriousness tests and procedures is good. Marine users here need a practical one day course, and you can hear those who have never bothered - theyâre so obvious! Seriously though - learning stuff is never a waste.
Older telegraph operators used morse code via a key by pressing it up and down by hand to produce dot and dash codes. Some operators were better than others and all could be recognised by there hand or fist as it was called. Poor operators were referred to as being âham fistedâ hence the term âhamâ came into being for all radio operators and has been kept in use for todays licenced private radio enthusiasts.
Youâve got a new version of history here Douglas - ham fisted is a term introduced in the early days of telegraphy - certainly before radio was even in use. The âhamâ radio term was simply short for âamateurâ. The two uses of the same word have very different original stems - just a common name. The ability to recognise operators by their fists is not specific to better operators, which you also made a link with - Some operators were of course better than others, but the âfistâ you speak about is the length of the dits and dahs compared to the space between the individual tones, and the spaces between words. Some people even have very short dits and extended Dahs - others have them very close in length. The actual spacing and pauses are supposed to be a standard, but everyone plays with them, and that is what people learn to recognise.