Old Town Amateur Radio Cruisers, Kissimmee, Florida
 

Brought to you in part by





Charter Media Memeber M1 of the Florida Antique and Classic Automobile Cruisers Association

 

 

What Can I Do? with a HAM radio License?

Old Town Amateur Radio Club Cruisers
The OTARC
(a not for profit organization)

You might ask, What can I do with a Ham License?
There are so many things, it's a difficult question to answer, but here's some ideas:

  • Talk to people in foreign countries. DX'ing is a favorite of many hams!

  • Talk to people (both local and far away) on your drive to work

  • Help in emergencies and natural disasters by providing communications.

  • Provide communications in parades or walkathons and other public service events.

  •  Help other people become hams. (We call it "Elmering.")

  • Hook your computer to your radio and communicate "computer-to-computer." Hams use radio modems.

  • Collect QSL cards (cards from other hams) from all over the United States and foreign countries and receive awards.

  •  Participate in contests or Field Day events.

  • Provide radio communication services to your local Civil Defense organization through ARES (the Amateur Radio Emergency Service) or RACES (Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service) ...or even FEMA, (the Federal Emergency Management Agency.)

  • Aid members of the U.S. military by joining the Army, Air Force or Navy/Marine MARS (Military Affiliate Radio System). See our Links section

  • Participate in transmitter hunt games and maybe build your own direction-finding equipment.

  • Have someone to talk to on those sleepless nights at home.

  • Receive weather pictures via satellites.

  • Build radios, antennas, learn some electronics and radio theory.

  • Talk to astronauts in space, or use the moon to bounce signals back to people on the Earth.

  • Experiment with Amateur TV (ATV), Slow-Scan TV (SSTV), or send still-frame pictures by facsimile.

  • Lash your ham radio to the public telephone system and call your friends toll free. (Auto patching)

  • Communicate through orbiting satellites. (There are many in ham satellites in orbit that are owned and operated by the amateur community! And you can use them without any cost whatsoever!)

  • And now join in on the "Wolds Largest, Weekly Car Cruise"  the "Saturday Nite Cruise©" from Old Town in Kissimmee, Florida along with a few others in Central Florida over the VoIP connections or directly into the repeater using RF. when you are visiting the area.

    ...and this is only the beginning! You are limited only by your imagination and ingenuity.
     

Part of the Amateur Radio Repeater Geezers United Society

©2007-2009 OTARC in association with
ARRG.US and the Mid-Florida Amateur Radio Repeater Association