When you’re outdoors — whether operating portable QRP, running a field exercise, or supporting a community emergency drill — bug bites are almost guaranteed. Most are minor annoyances, but some can escalate into real medical concerns if not handled correctly. Knowing how to give fast, effective first aid keeps youContinue Reading
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The “Net”, which is short for “network” in Amateur Radio is a daily, weekly or monthly meeting on-air of Amateurs to pass message traffic, make contacts or simply sit and “rag-chew”. Rag-chew is just sitting and talking about various aspects of the hobby, weather, or just about anything. The NetContinue Reading
What you need for these lessons Lesson Three Things you need for this: 1) You will need a basic scientific calculator. You will need to be familiar with operating normal math functions, square roots, trigonometry and Base 10 Log functions (basic scientific calculators have these functions). A programmable calculator isContinue Reading
Lesson Two Rick Donaldson Jun 22, 2022 Lesson Two is really a recap of everything I’ve written up to this point. Review this, and if necessary, re-read all of the postings since the first one. We will get into electrical material soon. It will be intense, but not impossible. FindContinue Reading
Lesson One Rick Donaldson Jun 22, 2022 Amateur Radio – Lesson One In the United States there are currently three license classes. Morse code is no longer a requirement, and should not become a requirement any time soon. As of today, there is NO FEE. However, the FCC is discussingContinue Reading
How to learn…. Rick Donaldson Jun 17, 2022 Everyone knows how to learn, right? Right. Well, no, not really. Some people, myself included, found school difficult at times. Some things were easy, others difficult, and there were things I knew or thought I knew and paid little attention to instructorsContinue Reading
FCC Part 97 Rick Donaldson Jun 14, 2022 The Federal Communications Commission, as we noted in previous posts regulates not only Ham radio, but all of the radio spectrum available. In almost all cases of radio services, a license is required. Some requires testing, like Commercial Radio-telephony and Amateur. AContinue Reading
Amateur radio in the USA Rick Donaldson Jun 14, 2022 My call sign (N0NJY) is issued by the US Federal Communications Commission. The FCC and agencies like it around the world, are the “authorities” that give license to radio operations. There is a reason that governments “license” radios to operate.Continue Reading
An introduction Rick Donaldson Jun 14, 2022 Welcome to the first day of this blog. I hope you enjoy it, and learn something from it. Traditionally, Amateur Radio Operators are a part of a large and long-time group of “Preppers” and “Survivalists”, though this is not a phrase we useContinue Reading
