What is this?!
In case you ended up here and have no clue what all this is about
About amateur radio in general:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio
About why people may travel around the globe to repeat the same words into a microphone over and over again:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DX-pedition
About the competitive aspects:Â
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contesting