Amateur Radio

[InbetweenDreams]

I haven't done amateur radio but it does sound fun and interesting mate!

Well I do know that when the bands open (aka skip or sometimes called e-skip) you can easily talk to folks in other countries. The neat aspect about it is take this forum for instance. I can "talk" to you here and have a discussion but on the air I can hear you, I think it can make it a bit more personal. However, a lot of times there are contests to see how many contacts you can make. A lot of guys pride themselves having made contacts in every country (even Antarctica and the International Space Station).

Skip, or e-skip has to do the the ionosphere. At times the sun's solar flares can effect the ionosphere in a way that cause radio waves to bounce back to Earth.... 1,000's of miles away.

Anyway, once I can get some time and material put together I do plan on A. Posting it here, B. Posting it to my blog and C. There was a plan to present this stuff to the tech club we have at the school. The digital stuff is pretty neat too and I think the kids would be more interested in that sort of stuff...