World Amateur Radio Day 2018

World Amateur Radio Day 18th April 2018

Celebrating world amateur radio day, we look at the way pre internet, radio shrunk the world. Using a variety of frequencies to transmit locally, or over long distances, radio ‘hams’ passed messages round the world long before there was Twitter, SMS or even phone calls. Relays passed on messages acting as go-betweens in the same way our major backbone carriers pass our messages today. However, it was all a little more civilised and ‘human’ rather than a hub of computers and machine readable protocol.

An "sd" representing an intial amateur radio ham contact
Ham Sequence Diagram

So “CQ from 3SL, calling CQ three sierra lima and listening” “Hello all on World Amateur Radio Day 2018! ” To find out more about your local radio society,  head over to your countries associations. International Amateur Radio Union Radio Society of Great Britain and local to us here in Cumbria Furness Amateur Radio Society