Get Your HAM license, then you will find there is a lot more ways to use your radio. There is NO morse code in any of the exams.

There are restrictions to what bands can be used depending on the license.

Part 97 of the Amature Radio Service has most of the technical information.
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/reg...s/news/part97/


Using a high power amp on any radio could cause Radio Frequency Interference. Think of it this way, you are in a car crash and injured, some bone head is transmitting at 1000 watts blocking the radio signal from the 911 opperator to the ambulance that is trying to find you. The rules are to protect us from things like this and if you touch an antenna that is transmitting at 1000 watts you will get a nasty burn. There is more to using a radio then just talking.

 

He denied running a linear. But I'm certain he was. Not only was I a licensed ham since the mid-60s (WB6MPD, but now no longer active and expired), but I worked radio maintenance in USAF for over a quarter century. I'm fully aware of what low and high power emitters are capable of. The last decade of my career I spent testing new radio, nav and computer systems for USAF, and continued that into an engineering career after USAF retirement until my complete retirement eight years ago.