Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL)
The Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL) (April 6, 1914 - Present) is the largest membership association of amateur radio enthusiasts in the United States. Co-founded by Hiram Percy Maxim and Clarence D. Tuska of Hartford, Connecticut, the ARRL is a non-profit organization that represents the interests of amateur radio operators before federal regulatory bodies, provides technical advice and assistance to amateur radio enthusiasts, supports a number of educational programs, and sponsors emergency communications service throughout the USA. Today, the ARRL has approximately 154,000 members domestically and over 7,000 international members. The ARRL also published a mostly journal for its members, entitled QST.
AKA: ARRL
Global amateur radio network.
This is a 1976 American Radio Relay Union (A.R.R.L) amateur radio map of the world. Employing a modified equidistant Azimuthal projection, the map depicts the world with the United States at the center, and world's countries displayed such that relative distances between foreign countries and the United States are easily discernible. (more details)