Foundations Of Amateur Radio

Foundations of Amateur Radio Our day to day life is full of communication. We listen, although less and less, to the radio for news and entertainment, sometimes mixed together as food and games for the masses. We can communicate with family, friends and the rest of the global population using a telephone. With the internet as a transmission medium, we exchange text, sound and vision with impunity to anyone who stumbles across it on a mind boggling collection of outlets, websites, social media, email, streaming services to name a few. The vast majority of this kind of communication is a commodity, that means that with little or no training most of the population has access to this. Another aspect of this commodification is that it's reliable. It works most of the time, it's generally good quality, with little or no loss, as in, you speak into your phone and there's an extremely high chance for the other party to hear your voice. While there are occasions that calls drop out, or the audio is chopped up, it'