What Do You Want To Do?
Answering that question starts with the type of activities that interest
you, such as emergency communications ("emcomm"), casual conversation
with friends or club members, or communicating using digital data.
You'll need to then consider the range over which you expect to make
contacts and the type of station you expect to use.
Where Are The Hams You Want To Contact?
Considering how radio waves of different frequencies propagate (travel)
helps answer the question of what bands your radio will need. Different
bands support different ranges of contacts as shown in Table 1 (see the
PDF file). Evaluate the activities in which you want to participate to
see where you will need to make contacts. (Glossaries in the Ham Radio
License Manual or on-line at www.arrl.org explain these and many other
terms.)
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