This blog is dedicated to the promotion of Amateur (usually called Ham) radio. It contains articles which include history, technical information, humor, coming events, and others but all related to ham radio. This blog is intended to be interactive thus comments are not only welcome but requested. All comments must be related to the article to which they are attached or in some other way related to ham radio. Readers may also e-mail questions or comments to wa6ohp@yahoo.com but be sure to put "hamslife" or "Ham's Life" in the heading or it will be eaten by the spam monster. (Comments not following the above rules will be deleted before they appear. Comments must not contain any obscene, indecent, or other wise offensive language. Comments must be in English)