Quick story, I was at HRO (Ham Radio Outlet), about a mile from Disneyland, listening to D-STAR, A station in Florida was talking to Europe and we were listening on a rig about half the size of a pack of cigarettes in California. D-STAR has been around for more than a decade. A HT not much larger than a pack of cigarettes can now reach the world in digital FM clarity. There are now a plethora of digital modes that can be decoded by software and a laptop. My first two contacts from my home in California were to Germany and Tasmania in clear FM quality.

DIGITAL RADIO/PHONES. NEW IN 2020
Dual Mode Network Radio - Anysecu M-9000
Qingoo P3 4G LTE Android Network Radio

DIGITAL TRANSMISSION
ESPAK
REFLECTOR LINKS
XREFLECTOR
VISUAL DIGITAL MODES
GOOD OVERVIEW OF DIGITAL
M17
ALL ROUND DIGITAL

D-STAR This is one of four major digital modes with Walkie-Talkies (HT in Ham jargon)
D-STAR GATEWAY-REGISTER
QUADNET ARRAY
D-STAR, DMR, FUSION compare
PEANUT
ALABAMA xlx REFLECTORS
QUADNET ARRAY
D-STAR Satellite
D-STAR SPARROW
DSTAR HF
HRCC LINK

D-STAR REFLECTORS
D-STAR NETS
REF001 STATUS AND CONTROL
D-STAR HRCC NET

D-STAR for Dummies
D-STAR PROGRAMMING4 ID-31 and ID-51
REF, XRF, DCS, XLX
D-STAR USAGE MONITOR
USAGE MONITOR'
D-STAR 01
Youtube D-STAR
HT DSTAR
D-STAR INFO
WIKIPEDIA OVERVIEW OF D-STAR
D-STAR Youtube
google book
FACEBOOK
LIST OF D-STAR REPEATERS
URL REPEATER DIRECTORY
MDARC D-STAR
D-STAR W6CX
DSTAR DASHBOARD
HF D-STAR
EXPLAINING ROUTING
DR MODE
GUI map
Repeater Lists

D-STAR WW6BAY
HAMRADIO360
Ham Radio Deluxe(HRD)
HOW TO D-STAR
OVERVIEW OF IC-7100.
LIST OF D-STAR REPEATERS
D-STAR info
ALL D-STAR SETUP
PEANUT REGISTRATION

D-STAR REGISTRATION
D-STAR REGISTRATION

DMR is one of four major digital modes DMR means Digital Mobile Radio. I rarely listen to anything but 31012 on DMR. Enclosed below are some of the digital modes I personally use or have interest.
DMR REGISTRATION
**BRANDMEISTER.NETWORK
TGIF 192.168.0.189/
TGIF PROFILE
TGIF SIGNIN
*
*
**BRANDMEISTER.TALKGROUPS
DMR
DMR'
DMR SIGN UP NUMBER
**DMR TGIF NETWORK **BRANDMEISTER dashboard ** DMR HOSELINE CODE PLUG

DMR FOR DUMMIES
QUICK DMR EXPLAINED
DMR hotspot video
MIKLOR DMR TUTORIAL
DMR TUTORIAL
*

DONGLE an electronic device which plugs into another electronic device and makes the software or device operable. Examples can include wireless modems, hotspots, copy protect software devices, and adapters.
ALL ABOUT SOFTWARE
RTL-SDR "RADIO"
YOUTUBE: THE SMOKING APE
Radio Reference Frequencies
RTL-SDR DETAILS

ECHOLINK For years I have had ECHOLINK on my cell phone and use it when away from my radios and need to check into a net. In 2023 I am becoming aware it is a full mode of communication.
ECHOLINK OVERVIEW
EVERYTHING TO KNOW ABOUT ECHOLINK
ECHOLINK FOR DUMMIES
FAQ
ECHOLINK USER GUIDE
YOUTUBE ECHOLINK
YOUTUBE BRIDGECOM ECHOLINK
SMARTPHONE ECHOLINK
WITHOUT A RADIO R3CU HANK

FT8 I began hearing about FT8 several years ago. It is sweeping Amateur Radio HF with regular reports of US to Europe QSOs. Digital FT8 needs very little power, uses a laptop and software and one gets a line of code. No talking. Sounds boring.
BRUCE RICHARDS INTRO TO FT8
FT8 MANUAL
FT8 SOFTWARE
FT8 FREQUENCIES
50.313 is the main FT8 freq, FT4 main is 50.318
INTRO TO FT8
FT8 NET/PAGE
BASICS OF FT8

FUSION is Yaesu's answer to digital communicaiton. It is one of the major digital modes with radios. It is identified as C4FM transmission. WIRES-X is not the same but uniquely part of C4FM. I have WIRES which was replaced by WIRES-X and honestly have never used any of Yaesu's digital modes and have very little understanding in 2023.
FUSION ROOMS
FUSION
FUSION C4FM

DIGITAL TRANSMISSION USING LAPTOPS. Along with AM, FM, this mode is an alternative. This mode uses equipment I have around the house. Nothing unique is needed. Laptop downloads fldigi.com and sound goes to > transmitter > across air > to receiver > to laptop. We talk with our fingers, reading the text.

FLDIGI UPDATES
FLDIGI The Contra Costa Sheriff's Department Emergency Communication Unit uses FLdigi. I tried for two years to use this very complicated program, needing to download upgrades every week to a month. Good program but lots of unique parts and I finally walked away from the Unit and FLdigi.

FLDIGI
FLDIGI FILES
FLDIGI VIDEOS
FLMSG(bottom of page)
FLDIGI DOWNLOAD
FLDIGI SOFTWARE
W1JLK software
FLDIGI GATEWAY
WIKIDOC

P25 is the fourth important mode and used primarily but not exclusively in Police work. It is why you can no longer listen on the average scanner to police chatter. Some of the OM that designed P25 are HAMs and use this mode but I know less than nothing about this mode.

DIGITAL OTHER MODES
JT65
WB8NUT DIGITAL
PSK31 It is a keyboard to keyboard simplex not all that unlike RTTY
SYSTEM FUSION
WOLPHILINK
WOLPHILINK'
JS8Call
FSQ very similar to FLDIGI and can be downloaded there.


DIGITAL HOTSPOTS This is a working webpage and technically should be part of the Digital Transmission above. This is a little interface between my Digital radio whether DMR, D-STAR or Fusion and the Internet.
YOUTUBE HOTSPOT
HOTSPOT FREQUENCIES
SIGNALINK (connects rig to laptop)
PI-STAR ENCYCLOPEDIA
OPENSPOT2
THUMBDV
NW DONGLE

DX is radio shorthand for Long Distance. While I have listened for years to HCJB in Ecuador, TWR in Bonaire, Radio Moscow and Radio Netherlands and many other stations. My best QSO, or conversation back and forth was late one Saturday evening, I turned on my transceiver and talked to a gentleman in Connecticut from California. When the Sun Spots are in Amateur Radio favor, I have talked many times to Texas on 20 meters.
CLIPPERTON ISLAND
DX MAPS Very cool visual site for long distance radio
GRID SQUARES
HOT SPOT MAP
DX_SUMMIT
WHAT IS ON MY SHORTWAVE RIG
WHAT IS ON SHORTWAVE
DX_PATTERN
NORTHERN CA DX FOUNDATION
50KW AM US STATIONS

We have always used a TV antenna instead of paying for cable. I have watched Channel 46 in Fresno, 36 in San Jose, Channel 50 in Santa Rosa, 22 in Rohnert Park, and Channel 2 in Redding and Reno (depending on how the antenna is turned). Karen can watch around 20 digital channels.


EARTH MOON EARTH (EME) One of the facets of Amateur Communication I am trying to learn everything about is EME. Bouncing a beam from my back yard to the moon and back, or to another station in Europe or South America. This usually takes some knowledge of Astronomy, excellent equipment, good ears and is frequently done in CW mode.
EME ON THE CHEAP
K7XQ's page
K2UYH's Newsletter
4.5 meter (14.5 feet), three band dish
W6/PA0ZN's page
EME on 10 watts

LIVECQ.EU which is a network or receivers looking for EME signals. Pick a loud one (-15 to -20) and tune to that frequency. LiveCQ will tell you if he is on JT65B or Q65A-60. Start with whatever 2M radio you have and WSJT-X. After you get the hang of it, then start fiddling with the funcube and MAP65, which will decode the whole band and either JT65B or Q65A-60.
EA8DBM EME CHAT
LIVECQ.EU


ECHOLINK Electronic format I use on my cell phone but can be used from laptops. It turns my cell phone into a HT (walkie-talkie) and I can talk from anywhere with a cell tower connection to anywhere else in the world with a Echolink connection. I must have and use my FCC Amateur call sign when using my cell phone to Amateur repeater.
ECHOLINK QRP FRIENDS*>29618. Tuesday, December 26 at 7 PM EST. Sunday, December 31 at 9 AM UTC Worldwide. 73 Steve Turner G0HCR

ELMER Helping others become HAM's, this is also called an "Elmer". My elmer in HF was Dave, N6YYM, he was a retired painter by trade, and as good a HF man as I had the opportunity to know. Unfortunately, N6YYM went SK (Silent Key) in February, 2005, and I truly miss his friendship. I have been an elmer to several people over the years getting into Amateur radio at the VHF level.

EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION for 25 years I was a member of the Contra Costa RACES (ACS) group. I have a chit that tells me I worked the Oakland fire of '91. and passed the FEMA RADO course and IS-100, IS-200,and IS-700. We started as an Ad hoc group of friends and it has slowly evolved into a group of unpaid Sheriff officers that have to buy their own uniforms and use Sheriff radios. I am a radio man not a cop-wanta-be.
PULSEPOINT.ORG app for your phone
Documents
FEMA CLASSES
INCIDENT MAP
EMERGENCY DRILL ON LAKE TAHOE Be aware the term HF or High Frequency is a specialized term. It refers to what was once shortwave, between 3 and 30 MhZ.

NON-GOVT EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION CLUB/GROUPS A subset of government emergency communication would include churches and social group communication.
Latter Day Saints (Mormons) have a much larger group on the radio each week than the local government.
The Northern CA Salvation Army I check in to this net most Monday evenings along with about 50 others Hams and communities.
SBC
SBC DOC

EXPERIMENT with bands, circuits, ideas (as long as they are in Amateur approved frequency slots. I heard of two guys that took a 5 mw laser pointer, took it on one mountain, the other guy went over 100 miles distant to another mountain with a telescope and they communicated via CW with each other...using light not radio waves.
HAM RADIO WORKBENCH

FIX, REPAIR or MODIFY equipment

PARTS
AliExpress (slow boat from China
Digikey
EBAY
MOUSER
Tonys capacitor corner

ANDERSON POWER POLES
LEARN REPAIR
Mr Carlson's Old Time Lab
ICOM REPAIR
MODIFY ASTATIC D104
HAM REPAIR.COM
POWER METER/FREQUENCY COUNTER

JANKE ELECTRONICS WI
AFFLORDIBLE RADIO REPAIR C0LORADO
Bill Grassa
clairmont radio services
CLAIRMONT SKYLAND RADIO AND TV SERVICES
RADIO SHACK PRO-28
MODS.DK
MANUAL LIB
ICOM Michigan
HESTER ELECTRONICS - AL
RETEKESS V115

VIDEO REPAIR FT-897
VIDEO REPAIR FT-817ND
VIDEO REPAIR IC-7000
VIDEO REPAIR POWER SUPPLY #1
VIDEO REPAIR POWER SUPPLY#3
COMM-SHOP-Robbers Roost Ranch, 49901 Highway 14, Inyokern, CA 93527-Commshop-ca@outlook.com
UTUBE TROUBLESHOOT
HAM RADIO REPAIR Cal Fischer 214-476-5107

FOX HUNT CHALLENGE. Looking for a hidden transmitter that may or may not be moving.
ALL ABOUT FOXHUNTS
L

FREQUENCY
AM RALLY
AM FREQUENCY
PACIFIC CREST FREQUENCIES
AIRPORT FREQUENCIES

GEOGRAPHY finding unique (strange to me) call signs and finding them on a map. Radio does not stop at national borders but is world wide.

* I have listened and talked to other HAMs in Asia, Canada, the Caribbean, Korea, Mexico, Poland, and Tasmania among the dozen countries I have in my logbook. I have taken my rig to China,

Philippines, Bonaire, Mexico, and the open sea by ship and on the Maritime Net 14.300 MHz @ Noon.

* Karen and I spent a day on Bonaire and PJ4VHF in the Caribbean. with Trans-World Radio

* The QUEEN MARY in Long Beach, CA on the top deck has a marvelous station that has the original equipment as well as new equipment on all bands.

* KGEI . Redwood City, CA, 100 kw Far East Broadcasting Company, aimed at Mexico City (decades ago)

* DX Expeditions

BOUVET ISLAND

Pitcairn Islands (listened to voices from people related to Mutiny on Bounty)

* Travel Helps
NORTHERN CA DX FOUNDATION

HAWAII CITIES/REPEATERS

HAWAII KH6RS MAUI REPEATERS

CEPT

Richat Structure

GLOSSARY/DICTIONARY With more and more one day wonders, starting at 8:00 on Saturday and at 3:00 they have completed 35 questions, passed the test, but are more confused than knowledgable. Here is a list of terms
JAMECO GLOSSARY
ELECTRICAL SCHOOL GLOSSARY
HOBBY PROJECTS GLOSSARY
ICOM GLOSSARY
ARRL GLOSSARY

HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOONS. The University of Reno, launch NASA approved balloons, run mostly by HAMS, several times a year with They regularly reach 80,000 feet and the highest I know of reached 102,000 feet. It is cool to watch and listen to the Internet version of the 12 to 15 minute flight over mid-Nevada. See also iHAB-7 Search, "high altitude balloon" for alternate videos.
BALLOONS.

HF or High Frequency When I was a boy, HF was 99% of all there was in radio. In the early days of radio, HAMs used 0.5 to 2.0 MHz and everything above that was High Frequency. When I was in High School in the late 50's and 60's VHF was in its infancy. My instructor Mr. Jack Glessner laughed and said we would never go to the moon because we couldn't get a radio signal out of our atmosphere. VHF was the wild west in 1965. Today, HF is 3 to 30 MHz and most will include the 160 meter band at 1.8 to 2.0 MHz. These are the bands that talk around the country and world. VHF is clear, clean (usually) FM and digital most of the time. If you want to compare, AM radio is HF and FM is VHF. AM can be heard for hundreds of miles but is full of static and noise. FM travels 75 miles but is crystal clear. This is the same for Amateur Radio propagation.
This is what HF Amateur Radio sounds like listening from your computer

HISTORY OF AMATEUR RADIO I went to school in the 50's and was taught about the Heavyside Layer that bounced radio signals back to earth. We now have some 50,000 pieces of garbage in space and call it the Ionosphere. I remember my electronics teacher tell me that we would never put men in space because we needed radio communication and nothing would get through the Heavyside layer. Then we developed polarized microwaves that went though the Ionosphere easier than warm knife thru butter. When I first got into radio 2 meter (144-148 Mhz) was considered experimental and we used 450 ohm wire on our TV antennas.
HAMS WIN WWII
HAMS WIN WWII_2
FAMOUS HAMS
KPH
W6KPH/KFS
W6KPH VIDEO
HAM CALL: OLD CALL SIGNS

HUMOR

DIGITAL is a fairly new mode. I start on my radio or cell phone and it moves over internet or wires to another radio INTERNET HAM RADIO QSONET allows anyone to listen, and I believe anyone that obeys the rules can talk. FCC rules require all Amateurs to use their call sign every 10 minutes, but I don't think this is true online. (Anytime one goes on-air, we need a FCC license.

ALLSTAR NETWORK
ALLSTAR COMMUNITY
FREESTAR NETWORK
*ALLSTAR

IRLP is the Internet Radio Linking Project. This is a fairly new, form of HAM radio that is 1/2 over the air and 1/2 over the Internet. Using frequencies all Amateurs can use, they send a code and it turns on a repeater anywhere in the world an IRLP repeater is located. It is not unlike Alice stepping in a hole and finding herself in Wonderland. Going to work one morning I heard a gentleman sign on from Brussels and talk about the snow and rain outside his home, while we were wishing for some of his rain here in California.
IRLP LIST

QSO.NET-$39 AFTER 30 FREE DAYS, NOT SURE IF HAM LICENSE IS REQUIRED
QSONET

PEANUT
UTUBE PEANUT

INTRO ECHOLINK
COMPUTER ECHOLINK

I like to LISTEN or MONITOR or in Ham Jargon, "Sandbag". Shortwave is a world of space, police, fire and foreign radio stations, one never knows what we will hear when we turn on our radio.

I listen to the Two Meter Band on my way to work or working at my desk. This is a VHF frequency (144-148 MHz) that only requires a 19 1/4 inch (41 cm) antenna. When I commuted to Vallejo, I would listen to Dean W7LIG (SK), in Nevada many mornings (140 miles) and when I had something to add I could talk to him. I can listen to most transmissions over at least 100 mile radius on the repeater and there is almost no static.
On rainy days, it is not uncommon to know far more about the weather than even my weatherman as everyone reports in, where it is raining and where the accidents are on the freeway. You can't do this on the Internet.

With my Yaesu VX-3 I can scan for police reports, business bands. When I worked in Vallejo I was only about a mile from a major USA amusement park, I could scan for Bugs Bunny and the other characters singing. The other night, I heard several friends talking simplex on a legal, but non-authorized place on the band.
AIRCRAFT HF PACIFIC
AIRCRAFT CALIF FREQUENCIES
SFO-OAK HEAVY FREQUENCIES
UTUBE SOLUTION TO MYSTERIOUS SIGNALS
EMISSIONS NOMENCLATURE
Listening/Learning

HAWAII FREQUENCIES
HAWAII KH6RS MAUI REPEATERS
HI FREQUENCIES

AK FREQUENCIES
SHORTWAVE STATIONS
WYFR-Deceased
WEWN
HCJB
FEBC
TWR
WWRB INTERNET STATION
ALL RELIGIOUS BROADCASTERS

SPACE I enjoy LISTENING TO SPACE. I have a patch that indicates I listened to the Space Shuttle while in orbit. At any given time there are dozens of microsatellites that we can listen to everything from a beacon to talk to people a continent away. With the new International Space Station and the Phase/// satellite in orbit, I expect Amateurs will be talking on a regular basis into space. LISTEN IN ON AO-91 PASS ON JULY 3, 2018 Suitsat1 in April, 2013, took a decommissioned space suit, put a Ham radio inside and the suit was thrown out into space. I believe I heard it, which is a once in never experience.
Just for fun, SUITSAT1: took space suit and put a 5 watt HF that went aound the world for several days before battery went dead in 2013.
AMSAT
HISTORY OF HAMSAT
Space Station Crew Uses HAM Radio to Call Earth
LISTEN IN ON AO-91 PASS ON JULY 3, 2018
ALL HAM SATELLITES LISTED OVERHEAD
FLY-BYS
D-STAR SATELLITE
MAKE Satellite Tracker
RS44-1000 KM
CONTACT ISS
ARISS


JARGON
AC6V'S JARGON PAGE


LEARN
*UTUBE-STAN GIBILISCO


LICENSE/TICKET
FCC
FCC'


LOG: Once upon a time every HAM had a logbook and and had to show 10 hours of QSO's in order to renew their license. Those days are gone, but there are some who still enjoy showing how many stations they talked to in period of time, especially but not exclusively during contesting. Today, stations use QSL Cards to show they contacted stations. LOG: AGENCY, DAY, MODE, YEAR, TIME. With the advent of computers few use paper and pencil and many of these programs use incredibly complicated programming where some even knew what class of license and do most of the work themselves for contesting. i use QRZ LOGBOOK

LOGIC
YFKlog
XMlog
WA7S
QRZ LOGBOOK
KB3IFH ON FACEBOOK


MARS, Military Affiliate Radio System which as its name implies is based in military discipline and does a fine job sending messages among active service men and women and their families. MARS is a military net designed primarily for traffic passing but can do much more in an emergency like 9/11. The nets are run in the military manner, which is a lot more structured than most ham nets. Anyone can listen to the daily MARS nets and traffic on any shortwave receiver. The MARS frequencies are allocated to the military, and are usually located just outside the normal ham bands by a few kHz to maybe 100 kHz away. Amateur Rigs need to be adjusted at the factory to include MARS bands separate nets for ARMY, Navy and Air Force. [I appreciate the Military and support them but am not military and do not have MARS built into any of my rigs.]
If interested in ARMY MARS
If interested in NAVY, Coast Guard, Marines
If interested in Air Force MARS
MARS WIKI
MARS MAIN PAGE
MARS DIGITAL MODE
MISSION SUPPORT NETWORK

METEOR SHOWER
INTRODUCTION TO METEOR SHOWER

METRIC In the United States we use British units, Inches, Feet, Yards, Miles. Most of the world and expeically radio ues metrics. millimeter, centimeter, meter, kilometer. Thus 3500 kilohertz (KHz) is 3.5 megahertz (MHz). If I have an antenna that is 102" long, how many cm is in 102"? Especially with antennas we are constantly in the US moving between inches and cm. Please note the next division: millimeter.
CM to inches calculator

MILLIMETER MICROWAVE Amateur's can use frequencies from very low and long, to very high and short. My interest tends to be with the shorter wavelengths. I can't get enough of the microwave frequencies. Short, shortwave to microwave travel in straight lines, much like light. Light needs a reflector to make it "bounce" around a corner. There are many ways to reflect a radio wave. Some of these include, repeaters, using meteor ion trails, bouncing it off the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights), reflected off the side of a mountain. Look up the following for more information:
Down East Microwave
SSB Electronics
ARRL 50 MHz +
Microwave Journal
W6AMT
METEOR SCATTER
SATELLITES
50MHZ and Above
K6MU
MICROWAVE OVEN TRANSMITTER
DISH PREAMP/LNA

AREDN MESH
SFWEM

NET In Amateur jargon, a Net is a convention where Amateurs meet at a certain time on a certain frequency. We never leave our shack (home.) All frequencies are in MHz. All times are in Pacific Time. A frequency like XRF757a is a D-STAR Reflector. A number like 31012 is a DMR Reflector. (00:00) or other numbers are UTC. I like to visit the following:

NETLOGGER

SUNDAY

10:10 (17:00) 10 Meters, 28,400 KHz, Every Day
14:00 (21:00)RASPBERRY URL THE RASPBERRY PI NET

--14:00 (10:00) QCWA Digital Net QUADNET ARRAY, QCWA FACEBOOK

--16:00 (23:00) QUADNET  Young Operators Digital Voice Net)
17:00 (00:00) REF091C KB0ZSG INTERNATIONAL D-STAR NET
17:00 (00:00) XRF002a (00:00) D-STAR USER GROUP
--18:00 (02:00) QUADNET AMATEUR RADIO RVers DSTAR DIGITAL VOICE NET
19:30 (02:30) 144:240 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SIMPLEX SSB
21:00 (04:00) 147.570 LDS BRENTWOOD 1/4 WARD SIMPEX (JAVIER KJ6PGY)
23:00 (06:00) WIN SYSTEM , INSOMNIAC NET

MONDAY

08:30 (23:30) _14.325 SATERN NET salvationarmyusa
10:10 (17:10) _28.400 10:10 NET ON 10
14:00 (21:00) REF038C *RASPBERRY PI DIGITAL NET

17:00 (00:00) REF056c AMERICAN LEGION NET
00:30 (18:30) TGIF320 HotSpot Raspberry Pi, SBC (Single Board Computer) and ZumSpot Net

19:00 (02:00) 147.165 STOCKTON-DELTA ARC (FT8900-7)
19:00 (02:00) 000000 GOTA NR5NN
19:35 (02:35) 147.735 CONTRA COSTA REPEATER ASSOCIATION (7:35 PM ON 7:35)
20:00 (03:00) 147.060 SATERN NET
20:00 (03:00) __7.282 BENICIA ARC
21:00 (04:00) REF014c NORCAL INFO TALK NET
21:00 (04:00) _3.9777 LSB WESTERN SATERN NET
23:00 (06:00) WIN SYSTEM , INSOMNIAC NET

TUESDAY

10:10 (17:10) _28.400 10:10 NET ON 10

15:00 (22:00) 21.365 NET
16:30 (23:30) QUADNET INDIANA NET
17:00 (00:00) 14.319 NET
18:00 (01:00) 8:00 PM CENTRAL TIME, AMATEUR RADIO ROUNTABLE
18:00 (01:00)ASTRONOMICAL NET, QUADNET ARRAY
18:30 (02:00) TTT NET, 223.500 SIMPLEX
19:00 (02:00) 10-7 NET, 28.405, WOODLAND
20:00 (03:00)147.060 ACS DIGITAL NET

We use FLdigi.com on laptop. Use the modem in my IC-7100

FLDIGI SOFTWARE

21:00 (04:00) _3.9777 LSB WESTERN SATERN NET

23:00 (06:00) WIN SYSTEM , INSOMNIAC NET

24:00 (Midnight)(NIGHT OWL NET

WEDNESDAY

00:30 (8:30) MELBOURNE REF091C
08:30 (23:30) _14.325 SATERN NET salvationarmyusa
10:10 (17:10) _28.400 10:10 NET ON 10

18:00 (0:00) HRCC/HAM-NATION 18:00

19:00 (04:00) HAM-NATION AFTER XRF307D 19:00

18:00 (01:00) AMATEUR RADIO ASTRONOMY DIGITAL VOICE NET, QUADNET ARRAY
19:00 (02:00) 147.060 SKYWARN NET
19:30 (02:30) 144:240 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SIMPLEX SSB
20:00 (03:00) 144.230 25-25 SIMPLEX NET USB
20:00 (03:00) 147.060 DARC NET
20:30 (03:30) 28.420 N6NA 10 METER RIVER CITY NET
21:00 (04:00) _3.9777 LSB WESTERN SATERN NET
23:00 (06:00) WIN SYSTEM , INSOMNIAC NET
24:00 (06:00) DIGITAL MIDNIGHT NET , DMR 320, D-STAR XRF307a

THURSDAY

01:30 (08:30) REF091C US NEWSLINE
10:10 (17:10) _28.400 10:10 NET ON 10

16:00 (21:00) REF056b KY D-STAR NET
16:00 (21:00) QUADNET KY D-STAR ALTERNATE FREQUENCY
18:00 (21:00) XRF021b CAN-NET
18:30 (21:30) REF014b ARES NET
18:30 (21:30) REF014b <"https://hrcc.link/connect.html">D-STAR HRCC NET
18:35 (21:35) 3.893 PLUS OR MINUS ACS HF NET
19:00 (02:00) XRF058a CERT/D-STAR NET
19:00 (02:00) 146.535 DARC SIMPLEX NET
19:20 (02:20) 147.735 CONTRA COSTA COUNTY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS NET
19:30 (02:30) 147.060 MDARC NET
20:00 (03:00) ANTI-NET
20:00 (03:00) MDARC AMATEUR TELEVISION
21:00 (04:00) _3.9777 LSB WESTERN SATERN NET
19:00 **FOURTH THURSDAY DELTA AMATEUR RADIO CLUB-PITTSBURG
23:00 (06:00) WIN SYSTEM ,INSOMNIAC NET

FRIDAY

08:30 (23:30) _14.325 SATERN NET
10:10 (17:10) _28.400 10:10 NET ON 10
salvationarmyusa
18:30 (21:30) 147.060 NEW NET WITH GORDO LINKED
19:00 (22:00) 440.450 (25)W6KAP ERNIE IN VOLCANO NET
20:30 (03:30) 444.725 ANTIOCH FRIDAY NIGHT VHF NET
21:00 (04:00) _3.9777 LSB WESTERN SATERN NET
21:00 (04:00) QUADNET RXR NET
23:00 (06:00) WIN SYSTEM , INSOMNIAC NET

SATURDAY

08:30 (23:30) _14.325 SATERN NET
10:10 (17:10) _28.400 10:10 NET ON 10
15:00 (22:00) XLX 307d D-STAR USER GROUP
15:00 (22:00) XRF 757a D-STAR USER GROUP with Jeff
16:00 (23:00) REF091C (23:00) AUSTRALIA NEWS
21:00 (04:00) _3.9777 LSB WESTERN SATERN NET
23:00 (06:00) WIN SYSTEM , INSOMNIAC NET

MISCELLANEOUS

19:00 GOTA NR5NN
MARITIME MOBILE SERVICE NETWORK
WEEKLY D-STAR NETS

DSTAR HF VOICE SCHEDULE
Sat PM 7:00 E (2300Z)
Sunday AM 10:00 E (1400Z Sunday)(Spend more time on each open band, and start on 80m)
Sunday PM 7:00 E (2300Z)
Check USB/LSB on freq to make sure the freq is clear.
SUNDAY AM, we start with 80m and work towards 6 meters.
06 mtrs 50.210 DV for 2 mins
10 mtrs 28.480 DV for 5 mins
12 mtrs 24.938 DV for 5 mins
15 mtrs 21.380 DV for 5 mins
17 mtrs 18.148 DV for 5 mins
20 mtrs 14.340 DV for 5 mins
40 mtrs 7.285(or another open freq) DV for 5 mins
75 mtrs 3.880 DV for 5 mins.
Net is Run via DStar Ref 30C for coordination.

LIST OF CANADIAN NETS

For the SCIENCE OF IT! Covers of Amateur Radio magazines I am currently using for a seminar include Counting Sun Spots in the January, 1998 QST magazine. Transmitting over 100 miles with a 5 mw laser pen between mountaintops in CQ/VHF, March, 1999. Many to most of the items on a radio like automatic volume control, Digital tuning. Repeaters if you live in smaller US towns for FM reception and much more come from Amateur's experiments.

MODE ALL MODES LISTED
AM RALLY
AM FREQUENCY
PACIFIC CREST FREQUENCIES
NOAA SUN SPOT PROGRESSION

MODEL PLANE can be found on six meters. It takes a license to use this band, so some of these ladies and gentlemen choose to become HAM's so they can use this and other bands to run their remote controlled vehicles. They can add a TV camera to their remote controlled vehicles on microwave, thus using two frequencies at one time.
MODEL AIRPLANE FREQUENCIES
AZ CLUBS/FIELDS
CA CLUBS/FIELDS

PLAY WITH NEW FREQUENCIES 1.25 METER BAND At one time most of my equipment was Yaesu. Now I use what is available for my pocket book. I use an Alinco DR 235 Mk /// and Wouxun 2/222 rig on 222 Mhz. I was strongly advised not to buy this rig, that "no one was on it." and sometimes that is true. But there are several repeaters in our area and a guy a mile or two away is frequently on. We have become fairly good friends and I never would have met him, had I not had this rig. I also have a Wouxan KG-UV3D, HT I find easier to hold, use and program.
SoCal/AZ 220 REPEATERS's page

PLAY WITH RADIOS

ICOM IC-7100, ALL BAND, ALL MODE INCLUDING D-STAR
Brand new to me as of July, 2017. Still don't have it on the air.
IC-7100 MANUAL
kv5r.com/ham-radio/2018-projects/7100-panadapter/
PANADAPTER

YAESU FT-8900, 10, 6, 2, .73 METER
My favorite rig when I am home. I can listen to two frequencies at the same time and usually do.
FT-8900 MANUAL
FT-8900
WIRES
WIRES OFF
FT 8800

KENWOOD TM-D700A, 2/440
This rig was given to me by KG6AUA and KG6ATN. At one time we, KG6FPX and I talked to them as we were all driving around after school. When a car was wrecked, they gave the rig to me and it has a super front end. This radio is installed permanently in my car and it pulls in simplex stations much clearer than any of my other rigs.

ALINCO DR 235 mk ///, 1.25 METER MONOBAND
It is on my desk. I use it when my Wouxun won't reach.
DR 235 MANUAL
DR 235 SERVICE MANUAL

YAESU FT 60R, 2/440 HT
I have had several FT-60(R) models over the years. Went to an emergency meeting one night and almost everyone in the room of 30 men had a FT-60. Excellent rig for 2/440.

WOUXUN KG-UV3D, 2/222 HT [ON LOAN]
Both my Wouxun and Baofeng are inexpensive Chinese rigs. I wanted to see how they had improved and use them in their own right. I frequently use this rig over my Alinco to be on a 222 net.
x108G
2/222 PROGRAMMING
Anytone triband

BAOFENG UV-5R, 2/440 HT
From Amazon to my door it was $31. It has almost no weight and fits in my pocket. I appreciate the rig has the entire commercial FM band as part of the radio. I have all kinds of frequencies in this for emergencies but also for going to the ball game. It is not Part 97 approved and I was uncomfortablel and gave it to a friend who listens to airplanes and other shortwave frequencies.

PARACHUTEMOBILE I have seen this multiple times recently. About 10 minutes per jump, listening to a guy jump from about 20,000 feet and talk to the ground.
PARACHUTEMOBILE

POWER SUPPLIES Very few transceivers use wall voltages. Tubes use around 300 volts and transistors use 12 VDC, the same as car voltages.
COOL POWER STRIP
OFF GRID POWER SUPPLY
battery cover
BATTERY BOX
Bioenno Power LiFePO4 Lithium Iron Phosphate Battery
BIOENNO CHARGER

Q-CODES Government uses 10 codes, "10-4." Amateur Radio has always used Q codes. QRP is low power. QTH is "What is your location?" This is Amateur radio jargon. These were developed back in the CW days and three letters were easier to send than all the letters in a comment or question.
Q Codes
Q Codes

QRP A footnote on CW. Some very hearty folk prefer what is known as QRP. These are transmitters with a maximum power of 5 watts. In a world of big radios and transmitters, they go small. I have a friend, AB6MB that rarely uses more than 2 watts and in a 1998 contest, "talked" to 12 states in 24 hours. By the way, he did this in the back of an old VW bus in a state park not far from our home. I heard of a contact between California and Japan using only 12 milliwatts and was powered by an AA battery in a tuna can!
FACEBOOK QRP
QRP SCHOOL
QRP URL
Peter Parker QRP VIDEO
QRP book
INTERNATIONAL QRP
QRP FREQUENCIES
QRP FREQUENCIES'
QRP FREQUENCIES"
QRP Q/A
Chinese HF rig_QRP
10-TEC QRP rig
qrpkits
BREADBOARD KITS
YoKits
Chinese HF rig_QRP
XIEGU 108G
VIDEO COMPARE
QRP ANTENNA/KITS
RISEN QRP CHINA
QRP GUYS
CRICKET40
PIXIE KITS


MINIMALIST QRP Using the fewest number of parts to make a RF signal another can hear.
MINIMALIST QRP

ULTRA QRP Whether a 5mw LASER or a 12 mw tuna can station Ultra stations never go over 1 watt and attempt to work on under 100 mw of power to talk to the world.


COLLECT QSL CARDS

Example Card
Example of a QSL CARD

KA6LMS CARD
TIME CONVERTER


QTH -- WHERE ARE YOU
HAM-CALL MAP
QRZ WEBPAGE
QTH LOCATOR


RAGCHEW Have someone to talk to on sleeplcontess nights. One night I helped a fellow XYL (Previous Young Lady or married woman) who was having trouble with her medication. She is blind and she didn't know if she had taken too much or too little medication. We talked as I did my paper route for about half-an-hour until the possible crisis passed. I could have used my autopatch to call for emergency help half a state away.

RECEIVERS Commonly known as a radio. Most shortwave receivers are much fancier with a lot more nobs to clean the signal, but in short a receiver is a radio.
CountyComm GP-7 SSB Ad
CountyComm GP-7 SSB 0-30 MHz YOUTUBE
CountyComm GP-7 AM FM SSB CW YOUTUBE
SHORT WAVE LISTENING (SWL)

REGULATE We self-discipline ourselves. We have rules in the FCC Part 97. We must use our Amateur Radio license call sign at the beginning and every 10 minutes of talking. We don't swear. We don't play music. For a while, there was a guy in San Francisco that would sign on with a five minute, day, date, address, etc and etc. We tutored him, he continued, we ignored him and he went away. No one wants to transmit and get silence back. We regulate and keep our Ham frequency clean and legal.

REMOTE We can sit by the fire and put our transmitter high on top of a snowy mountain or anywhere else we would like to put ourselves and our transmitter.
RS-BA1 software
remotehams

AIRPLANES REMOTE CONTROL MODEL CARS/AIRPLANES. While there are a number of frequencies model airplanes can fly on, most are very limited. Some amateurs use the six-meter band which will allow some of these huge planes to travel fifty and more miles from where the control pilot stands with their controls.

REPAIR, SEE FIX AND REPAIR
JAHNKE ELECTRONICS
JANKE ELECTRONICS WI
AFFLORDIBLE RADIO REPAIR C0LORADO
Bill Grassa
CLAIRMONT SKYLAND RADIO AND TV SERVICES
UTUBE TROUBLESHOOT

REPEATERS is another form of Amateur Radio. Repeaters are "machines" on the top of towers, mountains or even satellites in space, there is one on the International Space Station, our dream is to have one on the Moon, that make communication of short, shortwave possible over long distances. Some repeaters allow an Amateur to connect with the phone grid. About once a week, I have a reason to call my wife. I can do that almost anywhere within 100 miles of home at no cost to me. With a cell phone in every pocket this is becoming antiquated but some repeaters keep a phone available.
CHEAP REPEATER
SET UP RIG 4 REPEATER
Mt. Diablo ARC
CCRA
NARCC's Page
Every Repeater in the US
NEVADA REPEATERS
PACIFIC RIM REPEATERS

HAWAII RADIO FREQUENCIES
HAWAII REPEATERS
Ron Hashiro AH6RH/

147.195 N6ICW SACTO
SACTO OPEN REPEATERS
QUEEN CREEK CLUB
CA REPEATER LIST
KJG LIST OF CA REPEATERS
NARCC
ELKO REPEATERS
TEHACHAPI
BARSTOW
BAKERSFIELD
BENICIA REPEATER CLUB
MT. VACA REPEATERS
CA REPEATERS
GRID SQUARES

REPEATER SYSTEMS is another form of Amateur Radio. Repeaters are "machines" on the top of towers or mountains spaced a distance apart. There are military and emergency communication systems "across the backbone of the Sierras". There are at least two Amateur Radio systems spaced from mountain top to mountain top from San Diego to the Midwest and Canada.
WARA: WESTCOAST AMATEUR RADIO ASSOCIATION
CARLA
CCRA
SNARS
IRLP
WALA-MOSTLY LA
WIN SYSTEM

RF EXPOSURE CALCULATIONS
RF EXPOSURE CALCULATIONS

SATELLITES Satellites fly overhead every 90 minutes and are frequently closer than stations we are talking to on earth. Most classes of Licenses can talk to and from satellites legally. Many of the Astronauts and Cosmonauts have Amateur Licenses and talk back to earth. I have a patch that says I talked to one of the earlier space shuttles. You can also download satellite weather pictures.
COMMUNICATE 5 A BIRD
AMSAT
X-37B Space Plane Spotted by Satellite Tracker
ISS
AO-73
AO-85
AO-91
AO-92
HAT CREEK ARRAY
Satellite Antenna
MAKE SATELLITE TRACKER
SATELLITE TRACKER

Image by Fred Cunha
SDR Software Defined Radio
Software Defined Radio (SDR) on Android Device
FUN CUBE DONGLE (SDR)
N3UJJ SDR
SUPPORT SDR
YOUTUBE BEGINNERS GUIDE 2 SDR
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SIMPLEX it is like holding a conversation in the same room with someone. SIMPLEX is simple, We talk radio to radio without using high power, repeaters, or the internet, just two people and two radios. HF is almost 100% simplex. VHF/UHF has at least a dozen modes to talk to many at one time via repeater, digital, etc.
SIMPLEX FREQUENCIES
10 METER FM 29.600
6 METER CW 50.090
6 METER SSB 50.125
6 METER AM 50.400
6 METER FM 52.525
2 METER FM 146.52 in US (147.500 in UK)
1.25 METER FM 223.50
.72 METER FM 446.00
.23 METER FM 1294.5

SUMMITS/PARKS ON THE AIR takes two people one to be on top of the mountain and one at home or even another peak called a CHASER to listen and report they heard signal. SOTA SUMMITS OF THE AIR and POTA One of the newest names in radio. Previously known as MOUNTAINTOPPING and you may still see this term used from time to time.. Walking to the top of a mountain with all necessary gear (usually on their back)and spend hours talking to any and all people on the same time and frequency. Only for the rugged. Then packing up and hauling it back down to the vehicle. I enjoy being a CHASER, the person that is down on the ground talking to the SOTA on the top of the mountain. Always on a simplex frequency, frequently on 146.520 MHz which I monitor.
MOUNTAIN TOPPER_QRP
SOTA'
lots of photos
SOTA AWARDS
SCARS/SOTA
RULES/WHAT IT IS
UTUBE POTA
POTA
WIKIPEDIA
CA SOTA MAP
SOTA software

UTUBE POTA
POTA

MAKING FRIENDS is another facet of Amateur Radio. I have friends all over Northern California and Nevada I have never seen and have only talked to while driving my import. It broadens my world-view of life. Senator Berry Goldwater was an active Amateur as was King Hussein of Jordan. Ericka Dunlop, Miss America 2004 is K2BR and an active HAM. I have talked to mechanics, tow truck drivers, engineers, other teachers and professors, truckers, medical doctors, if you can think of a job, there is probably someone in that profession communicating right now. These two sites help me find friends on the radio and talk to them on the Internet.
QRZ, One of my favorite places to find my HAM friends!
The University of Arkansas FCC files

Another way of making friends is to JOIN A CLUB. There are repeater clubs, specifically designed to pay for the expenses of a repeater and to have fellowship once in a while. Another is to have specific interests. When I first became interested in 70 cm, there was a once a week net that talked about trains. They knew the angstroms of the paint on some of the locomotives. Another club I became aware of is the Quarter Century Wireless Association. This club is specifically for HAM's that have been licensed for 25 years or more. I joined in 2007 to see if it would help me get active again. I am loosely associated with the Delta Amateur Radio Club in Pittsburg/Antioch, CA.

QSL CARDS Some Amateur's enjoy collecting QSL CARDS from other Amateur's they have talked to on-air. The ARRL has a plaque for amateurs that document a QSL card from 100 countries, All states; All countries, all grids, and several other accomplishments.

INTERNET AMATERUR RADIO, IRLP There are over 600,000 Amateurs in the USA. It is now estimated that around 100,000 of them have email. The newest area of Amateur radio is chat rooms on the Internet. You don't need a call or a license to be in these chat rooms, but some guys like to hit keys wired to a wall instead of let it float across the sky. I enjoy talking to other Amateurs on email, so I guess that isn't all that different. You might check other Repeater sites for additional chat rooms.

TRANSMITTER HUNTS. Some are walking; some are driving while they look for a hidden transmitter. Some are as easy as turning your antenna one way and the other, others have computers and several antennas but all are looking for the elusive beep of the hidden transceiver.

There are five kinds of VIDEO that Amateurs can try their hand at ...

1. Slow Scan Television is like a snap shot, it takes several seconds for a picture to "develop" on the screen. Apparently it is going the way of the stagecoach, one of the few pages on this topic went south.

2. ATV (Amateur Television) has a look not unlike a standard TV station and is another ways to watch as well as listen to Amateur "Radio".TH 20:00 W6CX ATV NET


3. Still digital images (JPEG files) transmitted over packet networks. Also called facsimile, it can be received by either computer or fax machines.

4. One of the newest technologies virtually invented by Amateurs, is digital video images. Two Amateurs on November 25, 1998 using PCMIA wireless LAN computer boards, have transmitted digital images up to 1600 feet @ 28.8k.

5. Internet Want to look at my mug shot on the Internet?

Packet radio for short. This is an item not unlike a modem in a computer. The TNC goes between the Transmitter/Receiver and the computer. One of the Amateurs I communicate with via the Internet has his packet station connected to the Internet. Packet is free, once you have the equipment and is not hardwired to a wall, like most of us on the Internet. With a battery, many packet stations are quite mobile.

Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (TAPR)
MIXW Software

SPECIAL STATIONS From time to time Amateur Radio people go to far corners of the world to sometimes small rocks in the Atlantic or Pacific. The following video is of several men in Arkansas,SPECIAL STATIONS.

Interesting comment on Facebook. "The odd things that come to mind while driving. We have POTA (Parks On The Air) and WPLOTA (Wlalmart Parking Lots On The Air). I know a few gusy that tried getting HOTA (Hotels On The Air) going during Hamvention. But, do we have RAOTA (Rest Areas On The Air) yet?"


ACTIVATION IN A PARK Traveling to a state or national park and gaining as many contacts as possible in the time you are enjoying nature.
ACTIVATION IN A PARK

SUMMITS ON THE AIR (SOTA)
WIKIPEDIA
CA SOTA MAP
SOTA software

SPREAD SPECTRUM Spread Spectrum is not new, but is just trying to come into it's own. Heady Lamarr.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr" the movie star, is given credit with inventing this mode. If we are to ever have Tricorders like they use on Star Trek, it will probably come with this technology. Unlike standard radio, which uses a very narrow band of to transmit, Spread Spectrum uses a very wide band to transmit and receive.
">If you read far enough in the Inventor section, frequency hopping is in this article

RTTY: Radio teletype. Once upon a time, it was the old Newspaper hard print, stand alone printers. In times that are more recent, RTTY is usually one of several forms of computer to computer networking over the air.

SATELLITE: There are over 100 Amateur Radio Satellites that have been launched over the last 30+ years. At one time it took large array dish antenna and esoteric receivers. In the last two years (2018) AO-91 AND AO-92 can both carry a QSO comfortably with a five watt hand-held, dual band HT with a rubber ducky antenna. With miniturization many of the newer Amateur Radio satellites are about one foot cubes and weigh several pounds.

HOW TO LISTEN TO SATELLITES

AMSAT
WATCHING SPACE
AO-91
AO-91 LOCATION

RadFxSat (Fox-1B) Doppler Shift Correction
Memory 1 (AOS) – Transmit 435.240 MHz (67.0 Hz Tone), Receive 145.960 MHz
Memory 2 (Approaching) – Transmit 435.245 MHz (67.0 Hz Tone), Receive 145.960 MHz
Memory 3 (TCA) – Transmit 435.250 MHz (67.0 Hz Tone), Receive 145.960 MHz
Memory 4 (Departing) – Transmit 435.255 MHz (67.0 Hz Tone), Receive 145.960 MHz
Memory 5 (LOS) – Transmit 435.260 MHz (67.0 Hz Tone), Receive 145.960 MHz

37.989218, -121.711755
LONG/LATITUDE
ISS TRACKING

SCANNERS Most of my transceivers have a built in scanner, but for around $600 one can buy a radio that will pull in almost everything in the air except bugs.
Contra Costa Frequencies
CalFire Frequencies
Manhattan Police scanner
RADIO REFERENCE

TOOLS:

VE or VOLUNTEER EXAMINER Some Amateurs enjoy giving tests and upgrading their licenses. The FCC allows HAM's in a very carefully controlled environment to give tests to other Amateurs and those that wish to be Amateurs.
ARRL Test Sites
Sunnyvale Test Sites
RF exposure rules

WEATHER Whether the weather is for space, emergency, storms one of the things radio people do is watch the weather.
SPACE WEATHER WOMAN
STORM CHASER
HURRICAN WATCH
ANDROID APP

WEAK SIGNAL As a boy, I did this with my AM radio. Listen between the channels for stations in New York, Chicago and Denver from my home near San Francisco. My ears are too old these days, but some guys lisiten for the inperseptable sounds of less than one watt, thousands of miles away. ARRL WEAK SIGNAL MODES

YL YOUNG LADY When I got into radio in 1970 we nearly fell off our chairs if a woman's voice came across the air. Then around 1990 on the way to work about a dozen sharp women took over the two meter repeater and declared it "SKIRT HOUR" and they talked about interesting things to women on their commute to work. In 2020 it is not uncommon to hear a woman on air and I prefer the conversation on the radio to 50 years ago. Women in radio are known as a "YL" Young Lady, as compared to "OM" Old men, even if they are 12 year old males. A married women occasionally will be a "XYL" Ex-young lady, but this is going out of style, but is still around the dial.
YOUNG LADIES RADIO LEAGUE
Ham Nation: Take A Walk On The YL'd Side (1:38 YOUTUBE)
N2RJ RIA JAIRAM
N3KN KAY CRAIGIE
WX6SWW TAMITHA SKOV
TWO CHICKS AND A RADIO

YOTA Youngsters On the Air There are quite a number of young pre-teen and teen Amateurs out there. Boy Scouts in particular are active in recruiting and helping pass their Amateur Radio License. On Saturday at 14:00 PT they have a net on
YOTA

As mentioned at the beginning of this section, there are almost as many ways to use an Amateur License, as there are Amateurs. Come join us in this hobby that got its boost in the Titanic Disaster and is as current as satellites.


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2. What we think about most?

3. How we use our money?

4. What we do with our leisure time?

5. The company we enjoy?

6. Whom and what we enjoy?

7. What we laugh at?





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