While many amateur radio operators enjoy just talking to friends, others pursue a wide range of specialized interests. Whether you want to talk across town or communicate across the world (or even bounce transmissions off the moon!), amateur radio has something for everyone.
- Amateur Radio Direction Finding, also known as “Fox hunting.” A great page with how-to information for beginners is available at http://www.homingin.com/
- Amateur radio emergency communications
- Amateur television
- Communicating via amateur satellites
- Contesting, earning awards, and collecting QSL cards
- Designing new antennas
- DX communication to far away countries
- DX-peditions
- Email by radio with Winlink
- Emergency service through ARES and RACES
- Hamfests, club meetings and swap meets
- Hand building homebrew amateur radio gear
- High speed multimedia and TCP/IP
- High Speed Telegraphy
- Packet radio
- Portable, fixed, mobile and handheld operation
- Low-power operation (QRP)
- Satellite operation
- Severe weather spotting
- Tracking tactical information using the Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS), which may integrate with the GPS
- Using the Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) to connect radio repeaters via the Internet
- VHF, UHF and microwave operation on amateur radio high bands
- Vintage amateur radios, such as those using vacuum tube technology
- Wireless MAN construction
Source: Wikipedia
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