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