Ham Radio facts

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Your neighbor's ham radio can interfere with your wifi signal, and that it is the ham radio operator's responsibility not to mess up your wifi, and if they do, you can report them to the FCC and they can lose their license

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Anyone can contact the ISS via Ham Radio

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1. King Hussein of Jordan was a ham radio enthusiast and insisted that fellow radio operators refer to him without his title

2. About moonbounce communication. This is a type of earth-moon-earth communication and is the longest communication path available for 2 way ham radio communications.

3. In 1969 a HAM radio operator in Louisville Kentucky listened to the Apollo 11 transmissions from the the moon on home built equipment. He verified that the transmissions were not edited for TV broadcast, and verified they were coming from the moon. A fact overlooked by the moon hoax nut-jobs.

4. When NASA's JUNO passed its closest to Earth, more than 1400 HAM radio operators simultaneously transmitted "Hi" in Morse code. This message was received by Juno as the craft began its journey to Jupiter.

5. Ham radios are still popular enough to merit a hamvention.

6. Encrypting ham radio transmissions in the USA is illegal, and the National Association for Amateur Radio fights to keep it illegal.

7. SAREX is a Space Amateur Radio Experiment allowing amateur ham radio operators to speak directly with astronauts currently up in space.

8. An amateur radio satellite built by HAMs that launched in 1974 was off the air for 21 years until it 'came back' in 2002 and celebrated it's 40th year of operation in November of 2014.

9. If you are a Ham radio operator in Massachusetts, you can get a specialized license plate for your car with your call number.

10. Some ham radio operators go on DX-peditions. These are trips to remote, access restricted, or uninhabited places. They go just so they can broadcast from these places (presumably loading up on ham karma).

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HAM radio got its name from the first amateur station CALL from the Harvard radio club. Their names were ALBERT S. HYMAN, BOB ALMY and POOGIE MURRAY. Tapping out their names in code was too much so it became Hy-Al-Mu. This was eventually shortened to HAM.

Home owner associations and CC&R's are killing ham radio. - source