{"id":5577,"date":"2017-01-07T16:33:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T14:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zs6wr.co.za\/live\/?page_id=5577"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T08:16:32","slug":"what-is-amateur-radio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.zs6wr.co.za\/live\/?page_id=5577","title":{"rendered":"What is Amateur Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zs6wr.co.za\/images\/iss.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"166\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Amateur Radio, also known as \u201cham radio\u201d, is a hobby with a difference. It allows radio enthusiasts to transmit to other amateurs and experiment with all aspects of radio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/what-is-ham-radio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A write-up from the ARRL website<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The world of amateur radio includes:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Communicating with\u00a0 other\u00a0 amateurs\u00a0 around the corner, and around the globe<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Experimenting\u00a0\u00a0 with electronics,\u00a0\u00a0 antennas, receivers and transmitters<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Linking radio equipment to computers and the Internet<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Using handheld and in\u2010car radios to talk while mobile \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Making distant contacts, including the International Space Station<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Contests,\u00a0 field\u00a0 events,\u00a0 emergency communications,\u00a0 data,\u00a0 television,satellites, Morse code, and much more<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Emergency \u00a0Communications \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/portal.hamnet.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Hamnet)<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0If you have an interest in any aspect of radio, communications or electronics, then this could be the hobby for you. There are many amateur radio clubs all around the country that offer training courses to help you join the ranks of the world\u2019s amateur radio community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Have a look at this\u00a0video\u00a0below for more information. It was created by the RSGB (Radio Society of Great Britain)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zs6wr.co.za\/media\/Amateur%20radio - a 21st Century hobby_.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Click here to view Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amateur Radio, also known as \u201cham radio\u201d, is a hobby with a difference. It allows radio enthusiasts to transmit to other amateurs and experiment with all aspects of radio. A write-up from the ARRL website The world of amateur radio includes: Communicating with\u00a0 other\u00a0 amateurs\u00a0 around the corner, and around the globe Experimenting\u00a0\u00a0 with electronics,\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5577","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zs6wr.co.za\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zs6wr.co.za\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zs6wr.co.za\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zs6wr.co.za\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zs6wr.co.za\/live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5577"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.zs6wr.co.za\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10840,"href":"https:\/\/www.zs6wr.co.za\/live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5577\/revisions\/10840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zs6wr.co.za\/live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}