hamcall Competitors

Icom America Inc. manufactures two-way radios for the Amateur, Avionics, Land Mobile and Marine industries. We specialize in providing communications solutions that fit your organizational needs. Icom America Inc. is a part of Icom Incorporated. Started in 1954 by Tokuzo Inoue in Osaka, Japan, Icom Inc. is a publicly held Japanese corporation; its stock is traded on the Tokyo and Osaka Stock Exchanges. Icom Inc.'s roots are in designing, engineering, and manufacturing highly advanced, compact solid-state radio equipment for use in the amateur (ham) radio industry. The company's product line has since expanded to include communications equipment and products based in the marine, avionics, land mobile and wide-band receiver industries. Icom America was founded in 1979. With the exception of Cuba, Icom America is responsible for representing Icom products within the entire Western Hemisphere, as well to U.S. Territories in the Pacific. http://www.icomamerica.com/

ARRL® is the National Association for Amateur Radio® in the US. www.arrl.org/join MISSION ARRL’s mission is to promote and protect the art, science, and enjoyment of amateur radio, and to develop the next generation of radio amateurs. VISION ARRL, through our digital transformation, will be globally recognized by radio amateurs and the public for promoting amateur radio through our superior delivery of content, training, and licensing; protecting amateur radio through our work with regulators and industry; and investing in the future of amateur radio by inspiring and educating America’s youth in radio communications and technology. ABOUT Founded in 1914 by Hiram Percy Maxim as The American Radio Relay League, ARRL is a noncommercial organization that numbers within our ranks the vast majority of active radio amateurs in the United States. ARRL is also the Secretariat of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU). We have a proud history of achievement as the standard-bearer in amateur affairs. A bona fide interest in amateur radio is the only essential qualification of ARRL membership; an amateur radio license is not a prerequisite, although full voting membership is granted only to licensed radio amateurs in the US.