# " THIS IS HAM RADIO " 1970 AMERICAN RADIO RELAY LEAGUE PROMOTIONAL FILM AMATEUR RADIO 10544

This film "This is HAM Radio" is produced and directed by award-winning Hollywood producer and amateur radio legend Dave Bell in cooperation with the American Radio Relay League circa 1970. Intended to inspire kids to become interested in amateur radio, this production targeted schools and encouraged teenagers to take up ham radio as a hobby. Various shots of radio usage by people in cars and homes play out with interwoven footage of two youths unraveling and passing wire through a window and assembling it to a radio while upbeat music plays in the background (00:07-01:43). Starting around 01:30, we hear a station identifier, WB6KPN, called out by numerous radio operators. At 01:48 we are introduced to young U.S. amateur radio licensee Matt, as well as Mexican amateur radio licensee Enrique. The Federal Communications Commission regulates radio hobbyists like Matt in the United States. Matt goes on to explain that he and his friends are connected via their ham radio hobby and introduces the reasons he got started (02:26-03:00). He breaks down some of the fundamentals of his amateur radio hobby, including how all contacts (QSOs) and conversations are carried on by Morse code when a hobbyist first gets on the air. The film shows Matt and his radio club friends meeting up outside to test their portable equipment for emergency conditions, as well as to improve operating skills and build their own equipment to further increase their knowledge and skill (03:35-04:15). Matt…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/10544thisishamradiovwr)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: what its record states (its uploader's public-domain mark, or a licence not shown to be its rights holder's) leaves its US term to decide, and it is dated 1970; under US law a work of that year is free only on facts the site does not hold for it (its US renewal records, or its own country's term on 1 January 1996 for a work published abroad), and otherwise its US term runs to the end of 2065. Unclear is not offered.