Foundations Of Amateur Radio

Foundations of Amateur Radio The activities that our community places under the banner of amateur radio are many and varied. I've referred to this as a thousand hobbies in one. If you look at the surface, you'll find all manner of activities that readily attach to our hobby. Activations for example are invented at any opportunity, from parks to peaks, light houses, bridges, trains, boats, lakes, roads, locators and countries. We pursue contesting, making contacts using different modes, different power levels, we pick the frequencies on which we operate. If you dig a little deeper you might consider investigating propagation, or antenna builds, electronics, physics and more. It occurs to me that there is an underlying activity, one that any amateur can participate in and most do at what ever level they choose. It's the act of being curious. You can choose to turn your radio on and be curious to what's going on around you on the bands, or you can be curious as to what the underlying principles are of the