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Goddard Amatuer Radio Club (WA3NAN) was created by employees of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt Maryland. The club provides a social circle for Amateur Radio operators associated with NASA and spaceflight interests. The club's primary functions are to provide a place for radio operation, experimentation, training / education, and emergency comm support.
Amateur radio (sometimes called HAM Radio) is a non-commercial medium for hobbies and experimenters to learn about wireless communications in all kinds of forms. These can include HF long distance communications as well as high speed digital microwave communications to satellite communications.
Amateur radio operators come from all walks of life. movie stars, missionaries, doctors, students, politicians, truck drivers and just plain folks. They are all ages, sexes, income levels and nationalities. They say Hello to the world in many languages and many ways. But whether they prefer Morse code on an old brass telegraph key, voice communication on a hand-held radio, or computerized messages transmitted via satellite, they all have an interest in what's happening in the world, and they use radio to re