amateur radio

term

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A licensed radio service for self-training, experimentation, and non-commercial communication, with allocations across the whole spectrum.

The licence is the distinction: examinations, a callsign issued under an ITU treaty allocation, and permission to build and modify your own transmitting equipment, which is almost unique in modern radio. Amateurs run everything from Morse on a wire antenna to microwave links and satellites. The service earns its spectrum partly through emergency communications, because a station with a battery and an antenna keeps working when towers, exchanges, and the internet do not.

Also known as: ham radio, radioamadorismo, ham

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