Chapter 10
Public Service Operating
IN THIS CHAPTER
Joining a public service group
Preparing for public service operating
Providing communication as a public service
Checking into nets and passing messages
Sending digital messages via ham radio
As your experience with ham radio grows, you’ll find more and more practical uses for your communications skills. Your ham radio skills can also benefit others, which is where the service part of amateur radio service comes in. These services are important to you for two reasons: You can use them yourself and you can provide them to others. In this chapter, you find out what those services are and how to get started with the groups that provide them.
You may have obtained your ham radio license to provide personal communications for emergencies or disasters. You’re part of a long tradition in ham radio — welcome! However, ham radio is not like ...
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