Amateur Radio

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Amateur Radio Station

The FCC defines the purpose of the Amateur Radio Service as follows:

§ 97.1 Basis and purpose.

The rules and regulations in this part are designed to provide an amateur radio service having a fundamental purpose as expressed in the following principles:

(a) Recognition and enhancement of the value of the amateur service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communication service, particularly with respect to providing emergency communications.

(b) Continuation and extension of the amateur’s proven ability to contribute to the advancement of the radio art.

(c) Encouragement and improvement of the amateur service through rules which provide for advancing skills in both the communication and technical phases of the art.

(d) Expansion of the existing reservoir within the amateur radio service of trained operators, technicians, and electronics experts.

(e) Continuation and extension of the amateur’s unique ability to enhance international goodwill.

Amateur Radio operators are licensed for frequency bands from just above the AM Broadcast band, to the microwave frequency region. This wide range of available spectrum enables amateur radio operators to establish communications from local line-of-site links to worldwide networks.

Getting A Ham License

Amateur Radio Equipment

Hamfests