Quick Start Guide to Getting Your US Ham Radio License 1. Use HamStudy.org: HamStudy is a free website that provides practice tests for all ham radio licenses. It can help individuals prepare for their exams and find online or in-person test sessions. www.hamstudy.org 2. Check Out W4EEY on YouTube: W4EEY on YouTube offers excellent ham radio tutorials. He has playlists covering all ham radio license levels and occasionally conducts live classes. This resource can be valuable for learning ham radio concepts. Here are the playlists for the various licenses: • Tech Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ_9BZQ8gpziUWPBT3rOvSV6MCCeCaiK0 • General Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ_9BZQ8gpziv2a26B_IoQ1RbXbIqieP2 • Extra Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ_9BZQ8gpzhKG9Ha27YL9szWqBTmlYwU 3. Explore ARRL and Local Clubs: The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) website can help individuals find local ham radio clubs. These clubs often have information about local repeaters, club meetings, and ham radio "nets" (radio meetups). It's a good way to connect with other ham radio enthusiasts in your area. (

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4. Phone/Tablet Practice Test App: The hamstudy.org app has recently been updated. They did a really nice job with it. It’s a couple of fiat dollars, I think you will find it is worth it.

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🛰️⚡️ 🛰️⚡️ 🛰️⚡️ 🛰️⚡️ 🛰️ Breakthrough: Voyager 1 “Phones Home” After 40+ Years Using Backup Transmitter 🛰️⚡️ 🛰️⚡️ 🛰️⚡️ 🛰️⚡️ 🛰️ By NASA “NASA’s Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object, recently reconnected with Earth using a backup transmitter last used in 1981. This legendary spacecraft, over 15 billion miles away, showcased remarkable resilience by autonomously switching systems. Discover how the Deep Space Network restored communication, allowing Voyager to continue sending data from interstellar space. Join us to learn about the significance of Voyager 1’s achievements and what this means for future space exploration.” Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 00:39 The Communication Issue and Switch to the Backup Transmitter 02:33 Voyager 1’s Mission and Milestones 04:34 Implications and Future Considerations 07:09 Outro 07:30 Enjoy 🛰️⚡️ 🛰️⚡️ 🛰️⚡️ 🛰️⚡️ 🛰️ 📡 A backup transmitter is always a good part of a comms plan. 📡 🛰️⚡️ 🛰️⚡️ 🛰️⚡️ 🛰️⚡️ 🛰️

Three Categories of Communication that Apply to All Radios By Trex Labs “There are thousands of types of radios, dozens of bands and protocols, but ultimately only three categories of radio communication. This should help you build out your communications plan.” #hamradio #amateurradio #radio #comms #communicationsplan #trexlabs

Best Ham Radio Handhelds 2024 By HRCC aka KI6NAZ “My favorite ham radio handheld radios from 2024!” 00:00 - Intro 00:22 - VGC VR-N76 02:07 - ICOM ID-50 03:08 - Kenwood TH-D75 04:52 - Baofeng “Chungus” UV-25 07:02 - Honorable Mentions! 07:39 - Yaesu VX-1, VX-2 & VX-3 08:47 - Yaesu VX-6 09:42 - Final Thoughts, future reviews? #hrcc #ki6naz #hamradio #amateurradio #radio #aprs #tnc #woad #aprsfi #winlink

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👀 bitpunk.fm is a low-fi audiozine that puts the punk back in cypherpunk. I highly recommend checking it out in general and specifically this latest edition that has a segment on radio to include meshtastic and reticulum. One of the cool things about bitpunk.fm is that there is a limited run physical version on cassette for each edition. Listen to the episode for information on how to acquire it. Also, content for the zine comes from the community. I could go on explaining further but you are better off experiencing it yourself. So turn it on, tune in and opt out. ⚡️⚡️⚡️If you haven’t already, follow @bitpunk.fm is typing on Nostr. ⚡️⚡️⚡️ And 🤙 to all of the contributors for this edition. #mesh #meshtastic #radio #reticulum #am #sdr #hamradio #amateurradio #sodeband #nomadnet View quoted note →

Great Turnkey Meshtastic - Muzi Works R1 By HRCC aka KI6NAZ “My new daily Meshtastic.” ⚡️ ⚡️ ⚡️ This one looks really nice. If anyone knows where to get the STL file to 3D print a case like this, please put a link in the reply (& you will get zapped). ⚡️ ⚡️ ⚡️ #hrcc #ki6naz #mesh #meshtastic #lora #reticulum #ham #hamradio #amateurradio #radio #sideband #nomadnet #rns #rnode #stl #3d #3dprint

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(not affiliate)” ⚡️ ⚡️ ⚡️ This one looks really nice. If anyone knows where to get the STL file to 3D print a case like this, please put a link in the reply (& you will get zapped). ⚡️ ⚡️ ⚡️ #hrcc #ki6naz #mesh #meshtastic #lora #reticulum #ham #hamradio #amateurradio #radio #sideband #nomadnet #rns #rnode #stl #3d #3dprint

📻 The ARRL is holding a youth essay contest. The grand prize is an IC-7300. 📻 Check it out here: #arrl #hamradio #amateurradio #radio #7300 #icom #ic7300

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👀 Taking a Mesh Node to the Next Level: For Mt Diablo at 3,800 ft #mesh #meshtastic #reticulum #g2 #radio #hamradio #amateurradio #pi #pizero #raspi #rapsipi

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Reticulum Supported Interface Types and Devices: Reticulum implements a range of generalised interface types that covers the communications hardware that Reticulum can run over. If your hardware is not supported, it’s relatively simple to implement an interface class. Currently, Reticulum can use the following devices and communication mediums: ⚡️Any Ethernet device ⚡️ 📻 WiFi devices 📡 ⚡️ Wired Ethernet devices ⚡️ Fibre-optic transceivers ⚡️ 📻 Data radios with Ethernet ports 📡 ⚡️ 📻 LoRa using RNode 📡 ⚡️ 📻 Can be installed on many popular LoRa boards 📡 ⚡️ 📻 Can be purchased as a ready to use transceiver 📡 ⚡️ 📻 Packet Radio TNCs, such as OpenModem 📡 ⚡️ 📻 Any packet radio TNC in KISS mode 📡 ⚡️ 📻 Ideal for VHF and UHF radio 📡 ⚡️ Any device with a serial port ⚡️ The I2P network ⚡️ TCP over IP networks ⚡️ UDP over IP networks ⚡️ Anything you can connect via stdio ⚡️ Reticulum can use external programs and pipes as interfaces. This can be used to easily hack in virtual interfaces. Or to quickly create interfaces with custom hardware. For a full list and more details, see the Supported Interfaces chapter. #hamradio #reticulum #nomadnet #sideband #lora #mesh #packet #radio #packetradio #hamradio #amateurradio

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What is Reticulum? Reticulum is a cryptography-based networking stack for building both local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware, that can continue to operate under adverse conditions, such as extremely low bandwidth and very high latency. Reticulum allows you to build wide-area networks with off-the-shelf tools, and offers end-to-end encryption, forward secrecy, autoconfiguring cryptographically backed multi-hop transport, efficient addressing, unforgeable packet acknowledgements and more. From a users perspective, Reticulum allows the creation of applications that respect and empower the autonomy and sovereignty of communities and individuals. Reticulum enables secure digital communication that cannot be subjected to outside control, manipulation or censorship. Reticulum enables the construction of both small and potentially planetary-scale networks, without any need for hierarchical or beaureucratic structures to control or manage them, while ensuring individuals and communities full sovereignty over their own network segments. Reticulum is a complete networking stack, and does not need IP or higher layers, although it is easy to utilise IP (with TCP or UDP) as the underlying carrier for Reticulum. It is therefore trivial to tunnel Reticulum over the Internet or private IP networks. Reticulum is built directly on cryptographic principles, allowing resilience and stable functionality in open and trustless networks. No kernel modules or drivers are required. Reticulum can run completely in userland, and will run on practically any system that runs Python 3. Reticulum runs well even on small single-board computers like the Pi Zero. #hamradio #reticulum #nomadnet #sideband #lora #mesh #packet #radio #packetradio #hamradio #amateurradio

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TinySA PC Application By The Comms Channel “For today's video we're going through the setup and use of the Windows application for the TinySA Spectrum Analyzers.” #tinysa #spectrumanalyzer #tc2 #thecommschannel #radio #amateurradio #hamradio #meshtastic #mesh #lora #reticulum #sideband #nomadnet

Turn ANY Android Into A REAL VHF Two Way Radio Transceiver By Tech Minds on YouTube “Here we take a look at an exciting new project designed by Vance, KV4P. This project is FULLY open source and the start guide can be found here” #hamradio #amateurradio #kv4p #techminds #vhf #2m #ht #ham

Software Update: VarAC V10.2.1 (2/11/2024) New features Callsign dropdown mode: RECENT/POPULAR/CUSTOM. New setting - Select your desired mode for connect-to callsigns list. Application launcher - Set startup application sequence prior to VarAC startup. Ideal for launching Rig control apps, loggers etc. Set wait time for each app and even if you want VarAC to first close an existing app instance. Historical SNR data - VarAC now saves all SNR data during a QSO so you can see the SNR graph of previous QSOs. This will only apply to new QSOs made with this new version. Automatic antenna switch upon band switch (for supported rigs with multiple antennas and antenna selector) Mark VMail as urgent. In EmComm mode - a VMail is marked as urgent by default. This will also reflect through relay notifications that will now show also Urgent relay notifications both on the main screen and on the relay notification center. VarAC backups - By default VarAC will backup its important files in a "backup" subdirectory or one of your choice. You can disable it or change the retention copies under the settings -> Misc. Also can access backups from Main screen top menu -> Logs -> Open backup directory. EmComm features - features you can enable only under EmComm mode. - Disable SNR report sending - save time and power while handling a crisis. - Disable Caller ID sending- save time and power while handling a crisis (Require to check local regulations). - Last connection peeking - see previous links of your fellow EmComm network members - Automatic incoming file approval - always accept incoming files regardless to their size. Enhancements/Changes Applying suppress is typing in low SNR also if the other side signal is low. Inquire - close upon inquiring. Now you can control if it will stay open for additional inquiries. Adding countdown to large incoming file size alert and keeping it always on top. Block callsign - directly from the main screen using the right click menu. Adding Translate button to VMails. When activating google translate - instruct it to auto-detect the source language Adding 8m band as an option. Adding explanation on how "Ask for SNR" in broadcast can also serve as a broadcast receipt confirmation. Adding additional DXCC country prefixes: TM On Callsign History - Auto Scroll on QSO table to show the recent QSOs On Copy SNR chart to data - including also QSO time Added tooltips on SNR graph - when hovering on a point, a tooltip with its values appear. Adding to the Rig configuration tester also the activation of Antenna tuner and Antenna selector. On Callsign history - showing single QSO contents per user selection from the QSO list. When Auto QSY is rejected as it is out of allowed range, a new tag is sent "<QJO>" to signal the other side of the reason of declining QSY. Upon VarAC exit - showing on screen the closing process tasks information Bug fixes Not allowing manual insert of values in dropdown menu items in the settings menus. Closing the Inquire screen after clicking "parked VMail peeking". Fixing translations for Settings menu "Load chat history upon connection" When using old VARA FM/SAT version, VarAC tells you to upgrade your VARA HF. #vara #varac #varafm #varahf #varsat #ham #hamradio #amateurradio #digital #emcomm #emcomms

VarAC V10.2.1 is here! With Historical SNR data, Application launcher, Antenna switcher, Urgent VMails, Backups, Additional EmComm features and much more!

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KM4ACK’s lessons from EDC’ing HTs for one year: Pro’s and Cons of some of the most popular handheld radios on the market: “I carried an HT every single day for an entire year. The experience was eye opening and I learned a ton about the various amateur radios.” #km4ack #ht #edc #hamradio #amateurradio #radio #rf

Latest in RAK Wireless' Meshtastic Line! | WisMesh Tap First Look By The Comms Channel on YouTube “For Today's video, we're having a look at the latest in the Meshtastic line of WisMesh devices from RAK Wireless called the WisMesh Tap which is their first device that can be used stand-alone with its touch screen and on-screen keyboard. Update - Looks like the new UI will not work on NRF52 devices like these, so the standard UI will have to be used.” #thecommschannel #tc2 #hamradio #radio #amateurradio #mesh #meshtastic #rak #wismesh #reticulum #sideband #nomadnet #nrf52 #915mhz

Demo of Reticulum over HF By Zenith on YouTube “HF radio is a useful tool for bridging local line of sight Reticulum networks across vast distances over a direct point to point connection. Reticulum only requires a 500 bit per second connection, which is easily achievable over HF. The main drawback to using HF is the limited bandwidth available. Using propogation modes like NVIS can overcome the rapidly changing propogation conditions and are ideal for briding regional networks within the range of 0 - 500 kilometers ( 0 to 300 miles). NVIS can also accomodate higher bandwidths when compared to traditional HF modes of propogation. At the time of making this video I'm currently working on a dedicated software data modem for packet radio designed for Reticulum which I plan to release by the end of this year.” #reticulum #hf #sideband #nomadnet #hamradio #amateurradio #radio #NVIS #rns