Activities for Amateur Radio operators

Amateur Radio operators in the United States have expansive privileges at all license levels. That means you are able to transmit on many frequencies (each with different characteristics) and use a wide array of equipment. If you are recently licensed or an experienced operator looking for a new way to use your license and equipment, you will find something interesting here:

• Upgrade your license class
• Become a Volunteer Examiner
• Earn awards based on your recorded contacts
• HF DXing, including Contesting
• Participate in Emergency Communications
• Learn about Software Defined Radio
• Study solar weather
• Build your own equipment from kits or components you supply
  • Build an Antenna
• Participate in social nets (Insomniac Net, Nine O'Clock Net, etc.)
• Learn Morse code
• Listen to satellites or the International Space Station
• Use your computer to communicate over RF using digital modes (Puget Sound digital hams)
• Field Day
• APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System)
• Decode images from weather satellites
• Make contacts beyond your local area using Voice Over IP (VoIP) technologies like: IRLP, Echolink, All-star
• Learn about repeater operations (PSRG technical committee info?)