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

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

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

PrepperStuff: Controversy, Arguments and Opinions Rick Donaldson Oct 23, 2023 We all know that there are opinions out there, and like…. other “things” we have… we all have one. When it comes to these cheap Chinese built radios, there are certainly a multitude of opinions. Remember, these articles are notContinue Reading

I’d like to thank my friend and colleague, Lowell Yates (KD8HD) for creating this site, getting it all set up and ready to go. I’ll be adding my articles here and open it up to the world to read. I currently post on Substack as well, and do not haveContinue Reading