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| When you obtain your license you can: |
| - Talk to other licensed hams from around the world |
| - Talk to other local hams |
| - Collect QSL cards (cards confirming contact with other |
| ham radio operators) |
| - Help provide communications in times of emergency |
| - Continue learning about electronics |
| - Build radio equipment |
| - Recieve pictures using amateur television (ATV) |
| - Communicate using satellites |
| - Bounce radio signals off the moon (earth-moon-earth or |
| EME) |
| - Talk to astronauts who are licensed hams aboard the |
| space shuttle |
| - Help provide communications during special events |
| (parades, walkathons, etc.) |
| - Communicate over the airwaves using computers |
| connected to your radio (packet radio) |
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| And Much, Much More |
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