HAM Spirit

I just received the first contribution from a radio amateur, who thinks, that it would be appropriate to publish it on our portal. So what is it about?? Read on…

How to live in human society and not find yourself in the jungle, how not to allow the prevailing right of the stronger – this is the age-old problem of mankind. Over the course of millennia, mankind has come to experience a simple principle: my freedom ends there, where the freedom of another begins. To enforce this principle, it then developed a range of preventive and repressive legal instruments. Thanks to this, the world is not ideal, but you can live on it. States and their international associations for telecommunications (THAT) legally regulate the activity of radio amateurs from the point of view of the needs of other telecommunications services: a decisive item in international and national regulations is the prevention of possible interference and damage to the economic interests of public and other radio amateur services. However, given the multifaceted nature of the radio amateur hobby, there are quite naturally a number of frictional areas within the radio amateur community between individual interest groups and individuals. However, these friction surfaces are not and cannot be treated by state legislation.

One of the most fascinating features of HAM Radio is the fact that, that any legislation, which would adjust its internal relations, miss (even IARU's measures have the form of mere recommendations, legally unenforceable), yet this activity exists without really serious problems. Let's face it: it is a hobby open to everyone, in which members of all nations participate globally, cultural and religious traditions, social groups, all kinds of levels of upbringing and education. The possibility of collapse in the confusion caused by ignorance, unruly and wicked is great, anyway, nothing like that happened and is not happening: proc?

The answer is simple: for most of the almost hundred years of HAM radio's existence, the overwhelming majority of its supporters (and during that time it involved tens of millions of people) consciously respected and respects the internationally accepted moral code of radio amateurs, which formulates the principles of the so-called. HAM Spirit. The codex was written by Paul M. Segal, W9EEA, In 1928. Even though today some expressions and turns of phrase may seem somewhat outdated, fulfills his role well and effectively pres 60 year. Here is the translation:

He is a radio amateur

• considerate – he never consciously works in a way, which would limit the pleasure of others,
• loyal – shows loyalty, provides incentives and support to other radio amateurs, the local radio club and the national radio amateur organization, which represents amateur radio at home and abroad,
• progressive – knowledge keeping pace with the development of science, a well-built and functioning station, and operation, which cannot be faulted,
• friendly – slow and patient traffic, if requested, friendly warning and advice to the beginner, kind help, cooperation and regard for the interests of others are hallmarks of the radio amateur spirit,
• answerable – radio is a hobby, which is never hindered by family commitments, profession, school or community,
• patriotic – station and operator capabilities are always ready to serve the country and the community.

Notes on the translation: There is a board of Czech translations, many are enriched by their own “creativity” a “grind” pana prekladatele. We tried to make the translation as accurate as possible. The problem is the word “loyal”, which is usually translated as “dedicated”. Loyalty is perceived as a subordinate relationship, passive, unthinking and often forced. Loyalty is understood in the world as a partnership relationship, active, rational and purposeful. That's why we used a borrowed word. Similarly in the case of the word “progressive”, which is translated as “through his work he always tries to contribute to the development of the society to which he belongs within his possibilities and abilities”. But in the previous regime, any terrorist group and the most totalitarian countries used to be labeled that way. The same “half translated” is also a letter “patriotic”, because “patriotism” in the domestic sense, it is most often dull chauvinism and xenophobia.

The first impression of the book will probably correspond to the feeling of a clumsily worded archaic moral, with which school textbooks of all times and regimes abound. Let's not be mistaken: those apparent awkwardnesses are a deliberately created space for the acceptance of the code by all cultural circles of people – it's not just about addressing a member of the Euro-American group. Measured by the time of its creation, it is a surprisingly far-sighted document.

In our country, we are affected by bad experiences with governments, which we most often did not establish ourselves for centuries (let's face it, that mostly our fault), they adopted the habit of perceiving laws as a burden, which someone else imposed on us. And something so extremely necessary, such as the rules of the road, we mostly understand it as cursed harassment. If you wanted to talk about such a topic, you would have to talk to the Swiss, they say: “But they always are ours own laws; why would we and is, for god's sake, they themselves violated?” Inner, another region …

HAM Spirit has many practical implications, which we are often not aware of at all. We use prevadec as a matter of course, Packet Radio network, satellites and other readily available equipment, without worrying, where did she actually get married, who built them and who bears the costs of their operation. In the overwhelming majority, we can thank the voluntary and unpaid work of the enthusiast council for all of this, who spent a lot of their free time and resources on it, and made it available to the amateur public for free. This is also a practical result HAM Spirit.

HAM Spirit is a useful case, practical standards (such as traffic regulations), without which you cannot exist. Let's remember her and ride her. Only then will we be true radio amateurs.