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ETA313-01 Introduction

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  • Introduce myself (SA6JKK is my callsign, 'callsign' 'at' gmail.com, ham since 2019)
  • Todays agenda
  • You are licensed to transmit with >100 W using most equipment on certain frequencies. Typically it is the radio that is licensed
  • Callsigns are not anonymous (google my callsign)

Why ham/amateur radio? (ham with small letters)

  • SA6JKK's interests
    • Build my own radio equipment and use it legally
    • Investigate wave propagation with digital “weak signal modes”
    • amateur satellite communication
    • Microwave experiments
    • AMPRNet (ETA/SK6AB is an internet service provider)
    • Teaching and learning about radio
  • Others interests
    • Talk with locals on VHF/UHF
    • Talk with the entire world using HF
    • Talk with the entire world using low power HF, QRP (<10W)
    • Morse code (CW)
    • Prepping and emergency communications
    • Contests, radio operation competitions
    • Sending QSL cards, physical cards to signify a contact has been made
    • Radio-orienteering (license not required but common)
    • Collecting diplomas for all earlier activities. (Example talk to 100 countries = DXCC award)

Course introduction

  • What is the course information channel?
    • Show this wiki and the course plan
  • Course material
user/kurser/ham_vt2023_l1.txt · Last modified: 2024/02/13 18:07 by user