The Cascade Radio Club is an Amateur Radio Club located in the Pacific Northwest. Amateur Radio is also know as Ham radio. For more about the hobby of Amateur Radio, see below.
Amateur Radio is a hobby enjoyed by over 400,000 people in the
United States, and many more around the world. Ham radio operators are licensed by their respective governments. In the US, the governing orginization is the Federal Communications Commisssion, or FCC.
The whole idea of Ham radio is to use radio to talk to other hams. There are more ways to do this than you may think. If the propagation conditions are good, it is possible to communicate all over the world!
The American Radio Relay League is a nonprofit organization "of, by and for the Radio Amateur". The Cascade Radio Club is affiliated with the ARRL, and has received a certificate for being affiliated with the ARRL for 25 years.
For more information on the American Radio Relay League, check
out thier web site arrl.org
eHam.net - eHam.net
Puget Sound Radio Direction Finding site - PSRDF
The Ham Gallery - The Ham Gallery
NOTE: PSRDF is probably a broken link