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Communications
- Talk to your friends and neighbors, or the world, from your own Amateur Radio station. Set it up in your car, your home, on a camping trip, almost anywhere!
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Computers
- Use your home computer to talk, and exchange programs and messages with other hams on packet radio networks!
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Repeaters
- Keep in touch with old friends and make new ones on repeaters that let you communicate 50 miles or more using low-power hand-held radios!
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Space
- Use orbitng satellites to talk to other hams all over the world , on voice and through your computer! Talk to astronauts as they orbit the Earth!
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Public Service
- Provide communications for marathons, bike races and parades. Also during emergencies like earthquakes, floods, blizzards and tornadoes!
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Fun
- Build and try out your own radio antennas and equipment. Enter ham radio operating contests and qualify for awards!
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For You!
- Join more than two million hams around the world in the exciting hobby of Amateur Radio communications!