If a town were to lose power or a disaster strikes, there are assigned groups of people who are trained in these situations. In my hometown we have what is called 'A.R.E.S.' which is Amatuer Radio Emergency Service. It is all voluntary, and in order to be with an A.R.E.S. group, you need to have your ham radio license. I have included a link below to the ARRL Website which will explain in a lot more detail about A.R.E.S. and Ham Radio.
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The government may utilize ham radio (technically defined as "Amateur Radio") during times of disaster, natural or man-made, to provide inter-agency emergency communications. Amateur Radio operators by law are not allowed to accept payment for their services, and as such, they are not government employees. There are several volunteer organizations that various government agencies may enlist to provide emergency communications, such as ARES, the Amateur Radio Emergency Service. For more information on how Ham Radio can help during disasters, visit http://www.emergencyradio.org/.
You go an get licensed. During the course of this, you'll learn what you need to know.
Ham radios are vehicles for communication. They provide a platform for the exchange of information or data in emergency situations or in disasters. The amateur radio service is founded on a pledge that includes public service, and radio amateurs, the "hams" who use the equipment, are sometimes the only links between zones of destruction and the "outside" world. The ham radio is also a bridge connecting people and making them friends. Signals from even the smallest equipments can cross national boundaries, and hams are resistant "staying in their own back yards" when the atmospheric conditions are right (and when they aren't!). The radio amateur mans his ham radio and literally has the world at his fingertips. A ham radio is an increasingly sophisticated piece of technology, but it calls the user, the ham operator, to learn and improve on his technical knowledge and skill. Ham radio operators are asked to learn about the science behind their hobby, and to study to increase their understanding of the principles on which the humble ham radio works. The ham radio is a tool that a technically equipped individual can use to warn of or report on bad situations, bring people closer together, and open the eyes to a larger world.
Amateur radio, often called ham radio, is both a hobby and a service in which participants, called "hams," use various types of radio communications equipment to communicate with other radio amateurs for public service, recreation and self-training. But we still don't know the origin of the word HAM.
It's possible for a non-ham to speak on a radio of a ham under supervision. That means the ham has to be at the "control point", or the locality where the action (talking) is taking place. But a non-ham couldn't say, be across the parking lot from him/her and use a ham radio.
Amateur radio, often called ham radio, is both a hobby and a service in which participants, called "hams," use various types of radio communications equipment to communicate with other radio amateurs for public service, recreation and self-training.
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Amateur Radio (ham) sets are of varying quality and design. Some are quite simple and others are very elaborate, each doing basically the same thing which is transmitting a radio signal over the airwaves for non-commercial use. Ham radio operators require licensing by the FCC in the United States.
(In the United States) you do not need a license to own a HAM radio. You may Listen to communications on a HAM radio without a license. However, you may NOT transmit on a HAM radio without a license.
Amateur Radio.
Yes Ham Radio and Amateur Radio are same. Amateur and Ham radio operators use two-way radio stations from their homes, cars, boats and outdoors to make hundreds of friends around town and around the world. They communicate with each other using voice, computers, and Morse code. Some hams bounce their signals off the upper regions of the atmosphere, so they can talk with hams on the other side of the world. Other hams use satellites. Many use hand-held radios that fit in their pockets.