The sting in its tail is the proposed relegation of amateur radio to secondary status of the widely used two-meter band (144 MHz ... it being a free resource to all its users remains the same.

In the worst cases they can get fussy about things like the shade of brown a homeowner can paint their mailbox post, so you can imagine the problems they’d have with things like ham radio antennas.

all for free. To learn more about amateur radio, go to www.emergency-radio.org and to learn more about Newton County Radio Club, go to www.ncrcga.org. See what modern amateur radio can do.

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