This question supposed to be a good one mostly asked by people who didn't come across CB or even Ham-Radio equipment which is to be used for communication between at least two devices on frequency's designed to bring so called high-frequency-waves off an antenna into the air using a transmitter while on the other side someone might receive this air-waves with a receiver which is included in every 2-way-radio, designed for the frequencies those two opertators like to use.
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Apperently there are still people out there who don't know the simple technical specs of 2-way-radios even better known as walkie talkies. So I am trying to bring this technique in a brighter light for a better understanding.
Actually most people will already know how to use those radios as they have seen many movies in which radios like handheld devices or even mobile radios in police cars have been used as well as truckers who were talking on channel 19 using a CB-radio. But that kind of radios are just small examples of its wide pallet of communication equipment a DX-Enthusiast could be using to make contacts to the neigborhood or even around the world.
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A good knowledge of operational technology will be necessary to be a good operator of high frequency equipment but don't be scared it isn't that much. To know a few basics will be surely enough for having fun by doing the first contact on the high frequency-air-bands.
Therefore, like any hobby got its specs, also DX-enthusiasts might have their access points to meet people who enjoying the same hobby sometimes.
The Charly Tango International DX-Group is exactly one of that meeting points sharing a platform to folks who having the same intensions. And it is absolutely free of charge !
Yes, you heard that right it does not even cost a simple penny to join this group.
You may ask why should someone enter a DX-Group just for sharing the same hobby. Well there are even more characteristics this club has to offer.
A very good point for a membership in Charly Tango is that this club has a callsign list available on the website DX-CharlyTango.de and every member will get his own lifetime callsign which makes contacs to unknown users on the air bands much easier while they could check the information of each CT member online. This feature comes a little bit close to those radio amateurs who also will get their own callsign in order of the relevant authorities.
1985 the Charly Tango DX Group were founded by Mr. Albrecht who has lived in Western Germany close to the Dutch border. That was why in coorperation with a member from the Netherlands Charly Tango became an official association named "Charly Tango Borderland DX Group" with over 6,000 active members worldwide.
Unfortunately the founder of this association past away after serious disease in the age of only 49 but since then this heritage goes on and the member Wolfgang, 13CT1 (previously 13CT1203), became an admin of the group when the association officially has been canceled which for today means that this club will be absolutely free of charge for every member, today as well as in the future.
In my opinion a membership in Charly Tango International DX-Group is absolutely worth it, not only by using the CT callsign but also through a well known background of a club who connects people who are having the same intensions in a non-profit community.
Well then get your Charly Tango callsign today !
You can start being a lifetime member with only giving our admin a phone call, using the link to the contact form at the CT homepage, or by writing an email to the webmaster requesting a CT callsign.
If you are new to this hobby don't be worry. Charly Tango DX-Group got many new members as well as long time radio amateurs who always have open ears for questions asked by new members. Charly Tango will keep this hobby alive and once you turn a CB-Radio on you might hear a station using a CT callsign calling for international contact which means "CQ DX".
73's and good DX, yours Alex (13CT30)
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