HAM S love charts, I mean maps, or was it charts? They are everywhere in the hobby. Whether dividing up zones, regions, grid squares, atmosphere layers, bands, spectrum or maybe measuring performance, SWR, weather stats, power, gain etc Charts and maps are here to stay. Let s take a look at some of them! Whatchamean we need lights too? 1
Maidenhead Grid Squares http://www.arrl.org/grid-squares Lemon Squares Grid Squares 2
CQ CQ Christmas Tree DE KE5QKR Atop the tree from my AL80B glows a warm 3-500Z and inverted V, Wrapped in coax front to back sparkling with RF adorned with ground strap, Jolly is the shack with QSO's scored logs afire with QSL's and awards, Ore the lights of the icom so bright rag chews of Heil Sound well into the night, For all the contacts and points of yore 73's to all, God bless you and yours. 3
http://www.cqww.com/history.htm 4
2 Meters Repeaters 147.27 MHz (+) CTCSS 114.8 145.290 MHz (-) (sizzle, zzzt) D-STAR or CTCSS 67 70 Centimeters Repeater 444.425 MHz (+) (ctrlr, zzzt) CTCSS 114.8 444.100 MHz (+) D-STAR (Limited Range) 2 Meters Packet 145.01 MHz W5SLA-4 Digi-peater / Node (SIL) W5SLA-3 Mailbox W5SLA-5 NWS Mailbox St. Tammany ARES Net Every Tuesday at 8:00 pm on the W5SLA 2 meter repeater 2 Meters Club Net Every Friday at 7:30 pm on the 2 meter repeater 10 Meters Club Net Every Friday at 8:00 pm on Or about 28.425 MHz USB 75 Meter Club Net Alligator Net Every Friday 8:30 pm On or about 3.920 MHz LSB Some of your OARC Facilities 5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/smith_chart Let s Meditate On This OOoOooohm OoooOoohm Ooooooohm s Law Wheel Chart 6
REAL TIME CHARTS! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/oscilloscope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/spectrum_analyzer 7
The Ozone Amateur Radio Club began in 1964. It started out as a group of people getting together and forming a club and their common interest was Ham Radio. As time went along this group grew and they purchased the land and built their own building that came to be known as the Ozone Amateur Emergency Communications Center, which is located at 2190 4th Street in Slidell, LA next to the City Court of Slidell. http://www.w5sla.net/about.htm 8
https://www.ntia.doc.gov/page/2011/united-states-frequency-allocation-chart 9
http://www.arrl.org/graphical-frequency-allocations 10
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Did you know? Did you know that W5SLA owns and operates a packet system that is a part of a greater networked system that is geared towards public service via the NWS for surrounding areas? W5SLA-5 LIX NWS Collocated Station SIL Digi-peater Node Mailbox 145.010 PIC WASH1 BTR2 HMU GPT MSY Services available to HAM s via this network are; Mailbox based P2P messaging, e-mail gateways via Winlink packet, BBS systems, NTS and more 12
http://www.digikey.com/en/resources/conversioncalculators/conversion-calculator-resistor-color-code-4-band https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/radio_spectrum 13
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KG5NXY - Day Dream de Jour - NiXY 16
Operating Within The Rules 97.203 Beacon station. (a) Any amateur station licensed to a holder of a Technician, General, Advanced or Amateur Extra Class operator license may be a beacon. A holder of a Technician, General, Advanced or Amateur Extra Class operator license may be the control operator of a beacon, subject to the privileges of the class of operator license held. (b) A beacon must not concurrently transmit on more than 1 channel in the same amateur service frequency band, from the same station location. (c) The transmitter power of a beacon must not exceed 100 W. (d) A beacon may be automatically controlled while it is transmitting on the 28.20-28.30 MHz, 50.06-50.08 MHz, 144.275-144.300 MHz, 222.05-222.06 MHz or 432.300-432.400 MHz segments, or on the 33 cm and shorter wavelength bands. (e) Before establishing an automatically controlled beacon in the National Radio Quiet Zone or before changing the transmitting frequency, transmitter power, antenna height or directivity, the station licensee must give written notification thereof to the Interference Office, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, P.O. Box 2, Green Bank, WV 24944. (1) The notification must include the geographical coordinates of the antenna, antenna ground elevation above mean sea level (AMSL), antenna center of radiation above ground level (AGL), antenna directivity, proposed frequency, type of emission, and transmitter power. (2) If an objection to the proposed operation is received by the FCC from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, Pocahontas County, WV, for itself or on behalf of the Naval Research Laboratory at Sugar Grove, Pendleton County, WV, within 20 days from the date of notification, the FCC will consider all aspects of the problem and take whatever action is deemed appropriate. (f) A beacon must cease transmissions upon notification by a District Director that the station is operating improperly or causing undue interference to other operations. The beacon may not resume transmitting without prior approval of the District Director. (g) A beacon may transmit one-way communications. 17
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Eat too much and enjoy the Holidays Everyone change the batteries in your fire alarms Holiday greetings heard round the nets Don t burn the turkey or the house! Stay Safe! I am most thankful for my God given gift of discernment Now that s a wrap -SK- 19