What is International Amateur Radio Day?
AMATEUR RADIO DAY IS A DAY OF INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR RADIO DAY.
Around the world, 3,000,000 amateur radio operators are taking to the airwaves to celebrate International Amateur Radio Day on April 18th.
Throughout the day, Club members, as well as ham radio operators, will be on display and discussing amateur radio. Amateur radio operators will be on display throughout the day. The investigation will include studies of the station's operation capabilities and addressing amateur radio operators' interests, public service roles, and club participation by delivering information from local parades to natural disasters.
Ham Radio is extremely popular because you don't need a cell phone network or the Internet to communicate. Operators are particularly critical during a disaster when normal communication channels fail. For example, the Amateur Radio Service kept New York City agencies in touch after their command center was destroyed during the 9/11 terrorist attack. During Hurricane Katrina, where all other communications failed, Ham radio also came to the rescue. All other communications were interrupted during the storm.
Amateur Radio experimenters were the first to discover that the short wave spectrum, rather than being a wasteland, could promote worldwide propagation.
