what are the advantages of hamradio?

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1. amomipais82
   

   Hi,
   Ham radio contests and contesting can provide many advantages for the individual operator. It can also be great fun to participate in a large station set up specifically to enter a contest. However for most people, contest activity will be confined to dabbling in the contest and enjoying the additional activity created on the bands.
   
   Some of the benefits and advantages of participating in a contest are summarized below:
   
       * Additional activity on the bands:   The added activity on the bands created by the contest provides an opportunity to make more contacts. On the UHF and microwave bands where activity levels are low, this can provide an opportunity to activate the station on these bands. On the HF bands where contests may provoke huge increases in the activity levels it is often possible to make hundreds, or even thousands of contacts in a day.
   
   
       * Chance to make contacts with new countries, islands, etc:   Often stations are set up in rare countries or on rare islands especially for the contest. Also stations in these sought after areas may become active for the contest. This provides the opportunity to make contact with these stations and increase the score of the number of countries contacted, etc. Often it is easier to make contact with these stations than at other times because there are more rare stations on the air, contacts are faster, and the level of competition is less.
   
   
       * Provides a new operating challenge:   Participating in a contest, tests your operating skills. Those with their skills more finely tuned will be able to perform better. As a result these challenges provide a challenge in operating and pitting your wits against the other stations who may enter the contest and submit logs.
   
   
       * Provides an opportunity to review and overhaul the station:   When people are going to participate in a ham radio contest, they often use it as an opportunity to overhaul the station and ensure it is working to it best. It may be that adding a better antenna may provide a improvement, or some new equipment may be useful. By adding these for the contest, the benefits can be used afterwards. Also the ham radio contest may provide a good time to ensure that everything is working properly. The station can be checked to ensure it is operating efficiently and any repairs or changes can be made beforehand.
   
   
       * Provides an opportunity to enhance your profile and the profile of your station:   Although many people just enjoy participating on contests and do not submit entries, many do. Results are often published in the magazines and the winning stations will then be seen and noted by many others. One obviously has to make sure that before submitting any entries that the results will be suitably competitive and look impressive when published. Checking the results of the previous year's contest can provide a useful benchmark.

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2. amomipais82
   

   Hi,
   Ham radio contests and contesting can provide many advantages for the individual operator. It can also be great fun to participate in a large station set up specifically to enter a contest. However for most people, contest activity will be confined to dabbling in the contest and enjoying the additional activity created on the bands.
   
   
       * Additional activity on the bands:   The added activity on the bands created by the contest provides an opportunity to make more contacts. On the UHF and microwave bands where activity levels are low, this can provide an opportunity to activate the station on these bands. On the HF bands where contests may provoke huge increases in the activity levels it is often possible to make hundreds, or even thousands of contacts in a day.
   
   
       * Chance to make contacts with new countries, islands, etc:   Often stations are set up in rare countries or on rare islands especially for the contest. Also stations in these sought after areas may become active for the contest. This provides the opportunity to make contact with these stations and increase the score of the number of countries contacted, etc. Often it is easier to make contact with these stations than at other times because there are more rare stations on the air, contacts are faster, and the level of competition is less.
   
   
       * Provides a new operating challenge:   Participating in a contest, tests your operating skills. Those with their skills more finely tuned will be able to perform better. As a result these challenges provide a challenge in operating and pitting your wits against the other stations who may enter the contest and submit logs.
   
   
       * Provides an opportunity to review and overhaul the station:   When people are going to participate in a ham radio contest, they often use it as an opportunity to overhaul the station and ensure it is working to it best. It may be that adding a better antenna may provide a improvement, or some new equipment may be useful. By adding these for the contest, the benefits can be used afterwards. Also the ham radio contest may provide a good time to ensure that everything is working properly. The station can be checked to ensure it is operating efficiently and any repairs or changes can be made beforehand.
   
   
       * Provides an opportunity to enhance your profile and the profile of your station:   Although many people just enjoy participating on contests and do not submit entries, many do. Results are often published in the magazines and the winning stations will then be seen and noted by many others. One obviously has to make sure that before submitting any entries that the results will be suitably competitive and look impressive when published. Checking the results of the previous year's contest can provide a useful benchmark.

   Report (0) (1)  |   12 years, 8 month(s) ago