20 August 2022 The NetRick Donaldson he “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,Continue Reading

What you need for these lessons Rick Donaldson Jun 22, 2022 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 theseContinue 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