Women in Ham Radio

I am a firm believer that ladies can do just as considerably as men and my wife is living proof of that statement. Becoming in the military for twenty years I was needed to be away from my family members for months at a time and as such my wife speedily learned to do a great number of of the usual tasks around the house that are traditionally reserved for the man of the home. In reality the individual joke for a number of years was to refer to her as "Ms Villa" when some thing necessary to be repaired at household. She has even gone as far as changing out an engine on a modest rally car which we once had in Spain.

Ham radio will need to be no different than any other task for while 1 in most cases imagines the activity of radio communications as becoming a male dominated game it is slowly being taken over by the YL's of America. YL is short for young ladies of which all girls are addressed in ham radio regardless of their ages. It is the identical as calling all the male radio operators OM or old men.

Most ham radio organizations welcome females with open arms and are additional than willing to help them in any way feasible towards obtaining their technician or higher license. An fascinating point that was created to me in this regards was that the typical high female voice makes it a lot less complicated to understand and read a radio transmission than it would be for the usual male voice. That characteristic is especially important when emergency radio communications is crucial and errors can not be tolerated. During the beneficial weather days females are taking to the airwaves and chatting to their male counterparts about local or long distance road conditions and the different community events which are taking location in their component of the nation. Even so when a disaster strikes and the storm clouds are on the horizon these identical females are busy sending out emergency communications via airwaves.

Dawn Moss is just such a woman. When her household was threatened by rising flood waters, Dawn rushed her pets and kids to a safe location and promptly created her way to her nearby CERT center where she transferred radio visitors for a continuous 36 hours. These messages were of an emergency nature such as direct requests for aid and numerous rescue coordination transmissions.

Ms. Moss is not alone in her pursuit of the ham radio hobby. More and more ladies are studying the operations of the radios, obtaining the needed license and joining their communities Amateur Radio Emergency Services. The number of these female members has been growing over the years and to this day their numbers range as high as 30 percent in some areas. There are even more girls involved these days mainly because they have to have only study some fundamental electronics and possess a willingness to give back to their community.

I personally am planning to get my YL interested in the program as well, for I feel it would be of terrific benefit in a retreat to have the wife trained in radio use as well. If this sounds like some thing you and your wife might be interested in you could conduct an internet search of your region for ham radio clubs. They are all over the nation.