Learn to Be a Ham Radio operator

EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION Get prepared!!!
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• 8 THINGS TO KNOW
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  The main problem is no communication. Connectivity and telecommunications will breakdown.
• About Ham Radio
• FCC Technological Advisory Council (TAC)
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From: Richard Murnane
Subject: Ham radios in the aftermath of 11 September 2001
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 11:25:10 +1000
As others have noted, the terrorist attacks of 11th September caused major disruption to land-line and cellular phone communications. What hasn't been widely reported is that 570 Amateur (ham) Radio operators from 35 states and two Canadian provinces provided auxiliary radio communications to relief agencies operating in the affected areas.
The lesson is that even the most modern communications technology can fail, and that there is still value in having an independent communications infrastructure, especially when it costs the community little or nothing to maintain it.

Richard Murnane, Australian Amateur Radio station VK2SKY

In addition to helping out at emergencies when they happen, hams train every year for emergency communications in lots of ways. The most popular of those is "Field Day" where groups of amateurs put together stations "in the field" that often operate off independent power sources for a 24 hour continuous period and attempt to communicate with as many other such stations as possible. Field Day is always the fourth full weekend In June every year and usually around 30,000 amateurs all over the United States participate. In addition to voice modes (the most popular), many stations communicate via satellites and packet radio (even TCP/IP) as well. See The American Radio Relay League

Pioneers

Dave Hughes Delivers Universal Net Access READ WHAT DAVE RECOMMENDS CAN BE DONE TO GET ALL SCHOOLS WIRED WITHOUT SPENDING ALL THE MONEY THAT WE THE TAX PAYERS ARE SPENDING!!!
Dave Hughes is probably the premier technical and policy facilitator in grass-roots community networking. In 1981, he started what may be the first bulletin board system (BBS) whose goal was to empower the local public politically. Since then, Hughes has traveled around the world in an effort to bring some of the most disenfranchised and isolated communities into the electronic age. "I told my sons to bury me in a grave with space enough for an Internet connection so I can come back and keep giving 'em hell."

Entrenched interests tried to sue inventor of radio
by Andy Oram Dec. 12, 2001
This date marks a sterling moment in the history of technology: one hundred years ago, on December 12, 1901, Gugliemo Marconi became the first person to pick up radio signals transmitted across an ocean.
The triumph was quickly followed by one of the most ignominious acts in the history of technology: one of the most powerful firms in communications, the Anglo-American Telegraph Company, tried to stop Marconi from developing his innovation by threatening a lawsuit.

Women Pioneers
If you would like to see a remarkable US Patent filed by the 'the most beautiful woman in the world' of 1940, actress Hedy Lamarr.
The trophy wife of arms merchant Fritz Mandl, she entertained both the German and Italian general staffs as well as Hitler (she was Jewish), and Mussolini themselves. But by 1937 she was tired of being kept, so she drugged her maid and escaped through an open window. She wrangled a ride to the U.S.—and Hollywood—with Louis B. Mayer. There, she happened to meet composer George Antheil, who had written a piece for multiple player pianos. Sitting together at the keyboard, she realized that they were both playing the same piece only an octave apart, which gave her the idea of multiple radio frequencies broadcast one after another from a ship to a torpedo. With the help of an electrical engineer, the idea was patented. But the Navy passed on the idea as ludicrous, and the patent lapsed. Then in 1957, Sylvania Electronics took the idea and developed it for communications; the technology is the basis for all cellular phones today, GPS and is used in the Milstar defense communications satellite as well.

The First Frequency Hopping Inventor AND the most beautiful women in the 40's who first described 'frequency hopping' - the basis of many advanced spread spectrum radios today. Morse Code Converter

When Navajos Fought Japanese for Ne-He-Mah
By DAVID KAHN
It is the most romantic story in American cryptology. To keep the Japanese from getting American secrets in World War II, Navajos - among the original Americans - spoke over the radio in their native tongue.

Welcome to Hamelot Radio by Peter Jennings C31LJ

Freeware of interest to contesters and DXers
VE3SUN DX Monitor Tools for the Intelligent DXer
Download the latest version
DX Monitor is a standalone Windows program which monitors the DX announcements available on the internet at DX Summit, HB9DRV and connections to one or more local and international DX Cluster Telnet Servers.
New DX spots are displayed in the main window with user selectable bands, fonts, colors, and highlighting of alerts and local spotters. A band map tracks the current stations on the air by frequency. Maps show the openings with buttons to select bands and times.
The predicted signal strength of the spotted station at your QTH can be displayed with each spot. A 24 hour propagation prediction by band takes only one click.
DX Monitor builds a database of DX Spots, Announcements, and WWV information and includes many tools which can be used by DXers to improve their chances of working a new country.

See the AARL log book of the world.

 

Get your school to apply for a license!

GET YOUR SCHOOL INVOLVED

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Spectrum Radio Community Networking

Our Hero Dave Hughes
Founder of Old Colorado City Communications
Read About The Electronic Public Interest Versus the Private Good - Spread - Spectrum Radio

Community Networking
Dave Hughes is probably the premier technical and policy facilitator in grass-roots community networking. In 1981, he started what may be the first bulletin board system (BBS) whose goal was to empower the local public politically. Since then, Hughes has traveled around the world in an effort to bring some of the most disenfranchised and isolated communities into the electronic age.

In Hughes's home town, Colorado Springs, Colorado, all residents can get online, including truck drivers logging in from Rogers Bar. On more than one occasion, Colorado Springs citizens organized by Hughes online won a changes in the procurement policy by local government. His local private bulletin board has evolved into a city-run "City Link" on which the city council communicates openly with the entire community online. Hughes is targeting the state legislature next.

Dave Hughes Delivers Universal Net Access
"I told my sons to bury me in a grave with space enough for an Internet connection so I can come back and keep giving 'em hell."

Dave Hughes has definite tastes. What he likes: Stetson hats, Justin Boots, turquoise-studded bolo ties, and universal Internet access. What he hates: fools, bureaucrats, and phone companies. And the way the trailblazing activist figures it, Washington, DC, is where the fools and the bureaucrats conspire to make things easier for the phone companies to prevent truly universal Net service. "Fifty percent of Washington is full of conspiracists," he says. "The other 50 percent runs on the great American tradition of pure incompetence."

ATTENTION SCHOOL BOARDS:
WHO ANSWER TO THE TAX PAYER
ATTENTION TAX PAYER:
WHO ELECTS THE BOARD
ATTENTION CFO OF THE SCHOOL DISCTRICT:
ATTENTION SUPERINTENDENT:
WHO BUYS THE INTERNET SERVICE

READ WHAT DAVE RECOMMENDS CAN BE DONE TO GET ALL SCHOOLS WIRED WITHOUT SPENDING ALL THE MONEY THAT WE THE TAX PAYERS ARE SPENDING!!!

 

FCC'S HATFIELD TELLS HAMS TO "WALK THE WALK"
Jun 30,2000
From: Gary Johnston <ki4la@arrl.org>
To: Dave Farber

The FCC's Dale Hatfield, W0IFO, predicts a bright future for Amateur Radio. But the Office of Engineering and Technology chief says that amateurs "will be under a certain amount of pressure" to justify their free use of the radio spectrum. As a result, he said, it will be more important than ever that hams actually fulfill their service, good will and educational roles--not just talk about them.
Hatfield offered his observations as keynote speaker for AMRAD's 25th anniversary dinner June 17 in Virginia. Hatfield told the gathering, "the key issue for the amateur service is maintaining access to an adequate amount of spectrum." While emphasizing that he was not suggesting any immediate threat, Hatfield said hams will have to do a better job of justifying their current allocations.
Hatfield said hams should actually engage in experimentation to advance the state-of-the-art, provide communication and train operators for emergencies, encourage international cooperation and good will, and offer an important technical educational outlet. "Or, to use a bit of slang, it seems to me that it will be even more important for all segments of the amateur community to 'walk the walk' not just 'talk the talk'," he said.
Hatfield encouraged his audience to explore advanced techniques that conserve spectrum, especially digital techniques. As the rest of the telecommunications world transitions to digital techniques, Hatfield said, "the amateur service will look antiquated if it is not making progress in that direction as well."
Hatfield also said software defined radios could facilitate "a new era of amateur experimentation" and, in many ways, represent "a final merger" of radio communications and computers.

The text of Hatfield's prepared remarks is available on the FCC Web site

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"The Federal Communications Commission will accept applications for new full power non-commercial educational (NCE) FM radio station licenses sometime this year, perhaps in late spring," writes Carmen Ausserer. "Typically, the FCC gives between one and three months notice before opening the filing window, which will likely last only five days." The process will end a six-year FCC freeze on new full-power licenses. "The window is a rare opportunity for non-profits and educational institutions," notes Ausserer.
Organizations including Prometheus Radio Project, Native Public Media, the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and Radio for People Coalition are raising awareness about the opportunity and providing information to interested groups. But "the FCC can only accept applications for frequencies that do not conflict with existing stations, which, for the most part, no longer exist within 30 miles of the largest 100 cities in the U.S."

May 20,2001 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/duc/message/8971
Low Power Radio At-a-Glance: What could your organization or community do with an LPFM station?
Contact: Pete Tridish petri@critpath.org
P.O. Box 42158 Philadelphia, PA 19101
215-476-2385 Philly, PA.


Prometheus Radio Project has all kinds of helpful stuff about the application

• This page explains the electronic filing process, and has links in it to the form itself
• Find a .PDF File of a fully filled out application
• Get your co-ordinates of your building where you want to put the transmitter, and find your altitude, and other answers
• General technical info about the station and the application
• All the Forms
• DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION PDF

Available by phone from the FCC at 1-888-CALL-FCC.
Forms Distribution Center at 1-800-418-3676 to order the form.