Welcome to my Amateur Ham Radio Web Page. I became interested in Ham Radio about a year ago. I found myself a local Ham Radio club in my area M.A.R.C. (McMinnvile Amateur Radio Club) and started to attend the meetings every month. In short order I began studying for my Technician License which took me about two months to complete. That was studying about an hour every night going over the test questions and studying the theory about amateur radio. I was able to get my license on June 9, 2003. I am now currently studying for my General License and the Morse Code. What really peaked my interest was the ability to communicate around the world with others with the same interests in Ham Radio. I have found probably the most friendly group of people on the airwaves who are always ready to help out the new Ham in anyway. I am currently working on 2 meters in my local area, still learning the ropes in Ham Radio. I have also in the last two months also joined our local A.R.E.S. in Yamhill County, Oregon

Definition of "HAM: a poor operator. A 'plug.'" That's the definition of the word given in G. M. Dodge's The Telegraph Instructor even before radio. The definition has never changed in wire telegraphy. The first wireless operators were landline telegraphers who left their offices to go to sea or to man the coastal stations. They brought with them their language and much of the tradition of their older profession. In those early days, spark was king and every station occupied the same wavelength-or, more accurately perhaps, every station occupied the whole spectrum with its broad spark signal. Government stations, ships, coastal stations and the increasingly numerous amateur operators all competed for time and signal supremacy in each other's receivers. Many of the amateur stations were very powerful. Two amateurs, working each other across town, could effectively jam all the other operations in the area. When this happened, frustrated commercial operators would call the ship whose weaker signals had been blotted out by amateurs and say "SRI OM THOSE #&$!@ HAMS ARE JAMMING YOU." Amateurs, possibly unfamiliar with the real meaning of the term, picked it up and applied it to themselves in true "Yankee Doodle" fashion and wore it with pride. As the years advanced, the original meaning has completely disappeared. - Louise Ramsey Moreau W3WRE/WB6BBO - (from the ARRL Web SIte)"

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