ยง97.1 Basis and purpose.
The rules and regulations in this part are designed to provide an amateur radio service having a fundamental purpose as expressed in the following principles:- (a) Recognition and enhancement of the value of the amateur service to the public as a voluntary noncommercial communication service, particularly with respect to providing emergency communications.
- (b) Continuation and extension of the amateur's proven ability to contribute to the advancement of the radio art.
- (c) Encouragement and improvement of the amateur service through rules which provide for advancing skills in both the communication and technical phases of the art.
- (d) Expansion of the existing reservoir within the amateur radio service of trained operators, technicians, and electronics experts.
- (e) Continuation and extension of the amateur's unique ability to enhance international goodwill.
Value of ham radio
The FCC rules give the Amateur Radio Service a large portion of the radio spectrum. A company that wants just a single narrow-band channel needs some $$$$ to get it. Hams justify this generous portion by provide communications free of charge. The FCC Rules Part 97.113 prohibit hams from using these frequencies for financial gain.
Instead ham provide emergency and supplimental communications. When weather , earthquakes, fires and other event damage or overloads communications hams are availble to take up some slack. Public Service Events like bike treks and races, for example the Dempsey Challenge, many hams volunteer to provide communiccations for the SAG Vehicles and Rest Stops.
It might not look pretty but the circuit below allow for three things mention in FCC Rule 97.1
- 97.1b Advancing the Art, The combination of computer and radio open the relm of commications via unattend setup, like email, the recipient can pick up a message send while they were not around AND reply to the sender even if they are not at their station at the time. The circuit is a radio to sound card interface for a packet radio setup using the UZ7HO soundmodem/Easyterm package with mailbox.
- 97.1d. Reservoir of trained operaters,the constructing circuit and setting it up help me to improve my soldering and electronic troubleshooting skills.
- 97.1e Goodwill, the ham who wrote the program Andrei UZ7HO is a Ukraine ham operator. Many digital communications modes
