Can a ham radio receive and transmit to other ham-mers in the same area, country, or on another continent?
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Yes, yes, and yes.
looking for recommendations and what not for communication via these types of radios...
Also links for good radios to buy...
Good ones cost a small fortune, they are hard to learn, and you have to have a FCC license if you want to transmit on certain frequencies.
Depending on the set-up, yes. That’s kinda the point.
World wide with right rig and set up.
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Depending on your equipment you could talk worldwide. Neighbor on Guam could sometimes reach Poland if the signals were good. This was back in the 80s.
What short wave and Ham stations can I listen to to get news when everything is shut down?
Yup, know farsi? Talk to someone in Iran
Thank you for this topic.
There are multiple “Qs” on ham radio?
And once you have a tech license, study and upgrade to general.
Tech is not too mathy, it’s easy to pass and then you do most of your learning hands-on.
“Q has been dark for 31 days. At times Q strategically goes dark for days/weeks/months. Often when Q is dark major MIL/MILINT ops are occurring behind the scenes. Do not mistake silence for inaction. Great time to (re)read old drops. Enjoy the show.”
For $400 you can buy a new Xiegu G90 which is a 20 watt HF radio (HF provides up to worldwide propagation by reflecting off the ionosphere) and for $1000 you can guy any of several popular 100 watt radios that will do so more of the time because higher power means a greater chance of being heard. This is an oversimplification just to bracket the cost for you. An antenna is required and can be as inexpensive as $20-50 if you make it yourself using materials from the hardware store. But more importantly is you need to have a license, which means studying for an exam, and that in itself is important because ham radio is not like making a phone call. It’s more like fishing where your results are proportional to your knowledge.
But it is a mode of communication that can be done from anywhere, using battery or emergency power if needed, with no infrastructure. Your radio, a wire strung in a tree, and a power source is what you need, in addition to the knowledge of how to use it.
I am a licensed Ham radio operator and the answer to your question is YES. I/we can transmit to local, in same state, country and world wide to other LICENSED operators, all depending on the frequency, time of day, conditions of the ionosphere and troposphere. The sun plays a major role in communication. For the last several years the sun has been in what was called a solar minimum, very few sunspots, which was not good for long distance communication. The cycle has bottomed out and is not starting the upward climb to a solar maximum. Its an 11 year cycle, it will take 5-6 years to reach maximum the start to fade again.
I have made contacts worldwide from my home in East Texas, the farthest being to Indonesia (10,072 miles) as well as local (50-100 miles). There are numerous modes of operation and frequencies from HF High Frequency, VHF and UHF as well as some microwave
If you look into the licensing, you can find an “Elmer”...an experienced mentor. You’ll likely get gear catalogs in the mail before you receive your license.
Yes, yes, yes. Depending on environmental conditions, including the Sun, usually world wide within some hours of the day.
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Can a ham radio receive and transmit to other ham-mers in the same area, country, or on another continent?
1) If you have a tech license, you can use a Baofeng to communicate over local repeaters and FM to speak to each other.
2) If you have a tech license, you can use an app called Echolink to electrically communicate with repeaters and thus Ham users in that area (including internationally).
3) If you have a general license and a lot of money, you can get a transceiver, power source, antenna tuner, and antenna and communicate with hams all over the world.