Another hobby and another blog - I wonder how long this one will last. This time the subject is Amateur Radio also known as Ham Radio . A lot of people I know don't know what Amateur Radio is, so I'm going to try and explain it a bit here, but there are a lot of places on the web that will probably do a better job than me, especially since I am new to the hobby, so you might want to have a look at those if you are interested - I'll post some links below. So what is amateur radio? Amateur radio, also knowns as "ham radio" is an international radio "service" that is mainly used by hobbyist radio operators and engineers. To the average person Amateur Radio probably looks a bit like the more widely known CB radio. There are some similarities between CB and Amateur Radio, but the similarities are pretty superficial - both services use radios, and some Amateur Radios look like CB radios but that's about where the similarity ends. CB radio is really abo