Tutorials
When you start getting active on one of our Nets (Echolink on Thursday nights; HF on Friday morning), you might want to try being Net Control…or at least think about it. Here's the Preamble we use on our two nets:
Thursday Night Net Preamble
Friday Morning Net Preamble
When you want to talk to someone on your radio, do you know what might be in the way? This tutorial will tell you how to generate an elevation map to show what might be between you and your QSO.
CHIRP is a free tool for programming the channels on your amateur radio. It supports most brands and both mobile and handheld radios. It works on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, and 10, the latest version of Mac OS X, and Linux.
In the MINOW preamble is the phrase “please zero beat this frequency”. I was asked what exactly that means. Well, I had the same question several years ago and asked my OM. However, I don’t remember his explanation, so I went to the internet.
