Category Archives: Ham Radio Basics

This category is for the newly licensed Ham operator or anyone interested in obtaining an Amateur Radio License. It will cover basic ham radio transceivers, antennas and related equipment

Ham Radio: concerns, questions and comments

Here’s our thoughts on some of the common Amateur Radio questions and concerns seen on many of the disaster preparedness and survival sites.  Hopefully, you’ll get some good out of this information and it will remove any obstacles to obtaining … Click HERE to read the entire post….

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Ham Radio Basics: The Handheld Transceiver, Part Three

This is the final post in this series. Parts One and Two can be found HERE. We’ll be using some terminology that has already been explained. In the first two parts of this series we covered the Amateur Hand Held … Click HERE to read the entire post….

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Ham Radio Basics: The Handheld Transceiver, Part Two

This post builds upon the topics covered in Part One of the Handheld Transceiver series. ____________________________________________________________ In Part One we discussed the Single-Band Handheld Amateur transceiver. This post will explain the other option: The Multi-Band Handheld transceiver. These radios can … Click HERE to read the entire post….

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Ham Radio Basics: The Handheld Transceiver, Part One

  This series will be using some language that has already been discussed in the previous series “Ham Radio Testing Explained“. __________________________________________________________ This is a look at the Amateur Radio Hand-held Transceiver otherwise known as the  HT. This is often … Click HERE to read the entire post….

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