Foundations Of Amateur Radio

Foundations of Amateur Radio The other day I looked in my diary and noticed that it was the anniversary of my first solo flight. If that's not familiar to you, it means I got in an aeroplane on my own for the first time, taxied to the end of the runway, made a radio call to warn all the other pilots, took off, flew a circuit and landed safely. All the essentials for flying a plane. It occurred to me that there was a period of preparation associated with that flight. I did training, I practised, I got my gear in order and then after all was ready, I did the actual flight. In a technical hobby like Amateur Radio it's easy to get stuck in any of the steps leading up to your first transmission. It's just as easy to get stuck getting ready to do a contest, activate a digital mode, climbing a SOTA peak. Each of those activities are part of our hobby and doing those can provide you with a sense of achievement, a measure of success and ultimately the confidence to continue in this hobby. I've said before that the