Technician License Course Chapter 4 Communicating with other hams

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Technician License CourseChapter 4Communicating
with other hams

• Making Contact

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The Typical Telephone Conversation

• Greeting
• Identify who is participating
• Exchange information, generally taking turns
• Salutations
• End the conversation

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The Typical Ham Contact (QSO)

• Greeting
• Identify who is participating
• Exchange information, generally taking turns
• Salutations
• End the conversation

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Radio Manners

• Speak clearly and distinctly
• Giant party line-topics accordingly
• Shared use of frequencies

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Radio Manners

• Signal Reports
• Power level
• Location

• RST
• Readability (1-5)
• Strength (1-9)
• Tone (CW only 1-9)
• Your RST is 58

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Radio Manners

• Ham radio is self-regulated
• ARRL Official Observers
• Logging
• QSLs
• Awards Program

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Band Plans

• A band plan is a way of organizing the use of
  radio frequencies
• Formal and legal plan
• Informal gentleman's agreement

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Operating Dos and Donts

• Use of CQ versus monitoring
• Use of phonetics
• Taking turns and breaking-in
• Station identification
• Using repeaters
• Using simplex

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Repeater/Digital/Internet

• Echolink
• IRLP
• WinLink
• D-Star

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Review Questions

• T3B07, T3C05 through 10, T6C10 and 11, T7A09
• T3B01, 02, and 03
• T3A01 through 04, 08, and 10, T5C01, 04, 09
  through 14, T5d12, T6B01 through 11, T6C08 and 09

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Next Time

• Emergency Communication
• Read 4-20 through 4-28