It has been asked before, and answered. But, for the NEW amateur radio operator, looking for a way to increase that handheld's range, and capabilities, here is a useful hack.
This is the "hit that repeater" hack - it offers directional gain which helps you hit that repeater, without having to have a big outside antenna. The gain is off the ends of this unique dipole VHF/UHF portable antenna system. Ham radio is all about the hack.
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Morse Code Day on April 27 (every year) honors one of the inventers of the Morse code, Samuel Morse, who was born on this day in 1791.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of Morse code and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.
Alfred Vail developed the dot-dash structure and Leonard Gale along with Vail was instrumental in developing the mechanical receiving apparatus for code.
Samuel Morse though gets most of the credit because of his work in promoting this code as a viable means of communication, that is still used now. Amateur radio is one of the communities in which Morse code is popular and in daily use.
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I used to post amateur radio videos to my YouTube channel, but then life got in the way. Well, I'm coming back to it.
I posted my new, latest video to YouTube:
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