K9LJB Amateur Radio 

What is ham radio?

Contact K9LJB | K9LJB through the years  | K9LJB/MM

Click here for additional pages about my personal ham radio activities.

Clubs and organizations

American Radio Relay League

Sangamon Valley Radio Club   

Macoupin County Amateur Radio Club


Concerned about using your mobile rig while driving in Illinois?
Licensed Amateur Radio operators are exempt. Print out the act showing the exemptions and carry with you in your vehicle. "Just in case."   

625 ILCS 5.pdf

While we're discussing mobile operation, here's a web site that has everything you need to know about mobile operation from K0BG

 


A complete QRP station that fits in a cargo pocket

Learning CW

Traffic Handling

SKCC sked page

Map using APRS to show 2 meter band openings

APRS Tracking

D-Star Reference list

VOACAP propagation utility

WA7BNM Contest Calendar

Excellent article on half-wave end-fed antennas

The Truth about the G5RV antenna

Various articles about a simple 6T9 transmitter

Stealth Antenna links

NanoVNA https://hackaday.com/ 
NanoVNA Youtube presentation

More NanoVNA information


Chromebook end of support dates (Google)

 

Raspberry Pi stuff
http://www.piprogramming.org/main/ 
Google Coder for the Pi
Scratch at MIT

Computer "Stuff"
Open Source Cloning software

Chrome autoupdate policy 


The authoritative site for the Chinese  radios - miklor.com

Updated 2017-09-18
K9LJB's CHIRP programming information 
for the Springfield, IL area

FTDI USB programming cable.
More expensive, but it WORKS!

DMR related

http://www.miklor.com/DMR/DMR-CodePlugs.php 
http://amateurradio.digital/ 
https://www.pistar.uk/dmr_bm_talkgroups.php 
http://wiki.pistar.uk/index.php?title=Main_Page
 

Ailunce HD1 http://www.miklor.com/COM/Review_HD1.php 
http://www.k0pir.us/ailunce-hd1-codeplug/ 


Misc Stuff.

Americanradiohistory.com

Amateur Radio Satellite Power Point presentation 
from the May 2013 SVRC
meeting.

Solar info

Click here for Springfield, IL current weather

 

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