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Telegraphy or CW as we often call it was invented by the artist Samuel Morse. Samuel Morse (1791-1872) The telegraph was the first means of communication via radio and is still very effective today in making contact with other radio amateurs all over the world. In the past, there was a requirement for telegraphy knowledge to get your amateur radio certificate, which has not been the case since 1971. Even though the requirement is no longer there today, I recommend everyone to learn cw. For the beginner, there are some links below to use to train your ability to master the art of making connections using the telegraphy method. Please visit the Radio School which is really good. The radio school Study guide CW CW Training Program PC G4FON CW Training Program for PC Utveckla din telegrafi av SA7CND/Poul Kongstad QRS på 3555 kHz Lördagar 09.00 - 11.00 Välkommen att köra CW i lugn takt! SK7RN/SM7BUA SL0FRO kör telegrafilektioner alla dagar från 06.00 - 22.00 SNT på 3563 khz och 7083 khz. CW training program Android AA All after (used after question mark to request a repetition) AB All before (similarly) ARRL American Radio Relay League ABT About ADR Address AGN Again ANR Another ANT Antenna ARND Around AS Wait BCI Broadcast interference BCNU Be seeing you BK Break (to pause transmission of a message, say) BN All between BTR Better BTU Back to you BUG Semiautomatic mechanical key BURO Bureau ( "Please send QSL card via my local/national QSL bureau") B4 Before C Yes; correct CBA Callbook address CFM Confirm CK Check CL Clear (I am closing my station) CLG . . . Calling CONDX Conditions COS Because CQ Calling ... (calling all stations, any station) CS Callsign CTL Control CUD Could CUL See you later CUZ Because CW Continuous wave (i.e., radiotelegraph) CX Conditions DE From (or "this is") DN Down DR Dear DX Distance (sometimes refers to long distance contact), foreign countries EMRG Emergency ENUF Enough ES And FB Fine business (Analogous to "good") FER For FM From FREQ Frequency FWD Forward GA Good afternoon or Go ahead (depending on context) GE Good evening GG Going GL Good luck GM Good morning GN Good night GND Ground (ground potential) GUD Good GX Ground HEE Humour intended or laughter - often repeated twice i.e. HEE HEE HI Humour intended or laughter HR Here, hear HV Have HW How; How copy II I say again IMP Impedance K Over KN Over; only the station named should respond (e.g. W7PTH DE W1AW KN) LID Poor operator MH Meters high (antenna height) MILS Milliamperes MNI Many MSG Message N No; nine NIL Nothing NR Number; Near NW Now NX Noise; noisy OB Old boy OC Old chap OK Okay OM Old man (any male amateur radio operator is an OM regardless of age) OO Official observer OP Operator OT Old timer OTC Old timers club (ARRL-sponsored org. for radio amateurs first licensed 20 or more years ago) OOTC Old old timers club (org. for those whose first 2-way radio contact occurred 40+ years ago) PLS Please PSE Please PWR Power PX Prefix QCWA Quarter Century Wireless Association (org. for radio amateurs licensed for 25 or more years) R Are; received as transmitted (origin of "Roger"), or decimal point (depending on context) RCVR Receiver RFI Radio-frequency interference RIG Radio apparatus RPT Repeat or report (depending on context) RPRT Report RST Signal report format (Readability-Signal Strength-Tone) RTTY Radioteletype RX Receiver, radio SAE Self-addressed envelope SASE Self-addressed, stamped envelope SED Said SEZ Says SFR So far (proword) SIG Signal or signature SIGS Signals SK Out (prosign), end of contact SK Silent Key (a deceased radio amateur) SKED Schedule SN Soon SNR Signal-to-noise ratio SRI Sorry SSB Single sideband STN Station T Zero TEMP Temperature TFC Traffic TKS Thanks TMW Tomorrow TNX Thanks TRE There TT That TU Thank you TVI Television interference TX Transmit, transmitter TXRX Transceiver, transmitter + receiver TXT Text U You UFB Ultra Fine business (Analogous to "very good") UR Your or You're (depending on context) Alt: YR URS Yours VX Voice; phone + French "Vieux" (Old Man as per English "OM") VY Very W Watts WA Word after WB Word before WDS Words WID With WKD Worked WKG Working WL Will WUD Would WX Weather XCVR Transceiver XMTR Transmitter XYL Wife (ex-YL) (Extra Young Lady, i.e. wife) YF Wife YL Young lady (originally an unmarried female operator, now used for any female) YR Your or You're (depending on context) Alt: UR Z Zulu time i.e. UTC (GMT) ZX Zero beat 33 Used as a greeting between YLs (as half of an 88) 44 Hand shake, half of 88. Often used in Flora and Fauna connections 55 Wishing success (originates from German "Viele Punkte" -- Many dots/points) 72 Best Wishes QRP (Low Power) often used by low power station operators (5W or less) 73 Best regards 77 Long Live CW (Morse Code), wishing you many happy CW contacts 88 Love and kisses 99 Get lost!

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Great circle map World map Prefix I1WQR - Link page Sherwood Radio Test Data The amateur radio news Locator search page DXCC Most-Wanted List SM0JZT – SSA Radio Engineering Section Arboga Elektronikhistoriska Förening QTC library SSA QTC Library Radioforum.se World Clock CQ Amateur Radio RigPix Ham.se eHam.net Surplus page (sightseeing) Grimeton Föreningen Alexander - Grimeton

In order for our hobby to be as pleasant as possible, it might be a good idea to adhere to some rules about how to behave on the bands. A radio amateur must be tolerant. We share frequencies with many other people, some of whom will not have the same opinion as you. We don't talk derogatorily about people. Be mindful of what you say and avoid discussing topics that may seem upsetting or offensive. Topics that should be avoided are religion and outlook, political ideology, or economic social issues etc. where opposing parties may have strong opinions which do not necessarily match your own. We completely avoid profanity, sex words and the like. Understand that everyone may not have the same skills, experience and more. Act humbly towards other people on the bands. If you or someone else gets upset, avoid acting on it, instead behave like an adult in such situations and try to calm the situation down. Stations that deliberately interfere are ignored, attention usually only makes the problem worse. L call before sending and ask if the sequence is available if you are unsure. Also listen a few khz above and below the frequency you intend to use so you don't disturb ongoing traffic near your frequency. Call correctly and exit correctly. A matörradion is mainly for technical discussions of a purely private nature or of general interest for the hobby, tests and exams and more. Approach to DX traffic I listening and listening and listening again before calling the DX station. I calling The DX station only if I can perceive the DX station properly. I don't trust the DX cluster but be sure of the DX station's callsign before I do calling The DX station. I do not disturb the DX station or anyone who calling The DX station and I never transmit on the DX station frequency vid split-QSO I waiting for the DX station to finish a contact before I calling . I always enter my entire signal. I does not call DX station continuously. After calling the DX station, I listen carefully. I calling not when the DX operator answers another call sign, not mine. I answers or calling not when the DX operator asks for a signal that is not mine. I calling not when the DX station is requesting geographic areas other than mine Are there more stations waiting to finishI my QSO with the DX station as soon as we exchange the necessary information unless the DX station expressly wants to conduct a longer QSO with me.

My antennae Here are the antennas I use at the moment. See also under the remotestation tab. At the bottom of the page there are also some tips and links for those of you who like to build your own antennas. The beam is a Hygain Explorer and it has the bands 30m, 20m, 15m and 10m. Above it a warcbands dipole and at the top a vertical from Diamond for 2m and 70cm. It's all mounted on a sled so I can lower the antennas to the top for easier servicing. Here is the rotor that I turn the antennas with. It sits on the floor in the attic and I built it from a Permobil engine, two gearboxes and chain drive. The rotor is operated with a control box from CDE. I use this antenna for the 40m and 80m bands. The upper part for 80m is slightly shortened and thus adapted for the attachment points I have access to but performance and bandwidth is basically equivalent to a full length dipole. The coils inductance is 30 Mikrohenry, read more about the coils further down the page. Antenna analysis 80m Antenna analysis 40m Here is a picture of my 80m vertical that I have mounted on my boathouse. The antenna has a coil in the middle and uses the tin roof of the boat house as a ground plane. If you don't have access to the metal roof or the like, it works just as well with counterweight ropes. Antennas for smaller gardens Shortened antenna for the 80m band that works well. This antenna is much shorter and thus narrower, but works to tune with the radio's internal tuner over the entire band with good results. The coils are of the same construction as on my wire antenna for 80m and 40m further up the side. They are wound on 50 mm electrician's pipe. By wrapping with RK el. FK1.5mm2 automatically gets a "pitch" of 1:2. 45 turns gives the desired 30uH. A 140 mm pipe length is used for the winding itself, but a 160 mm pipe is used to accommodate the reliefs. The antenna is previously posted by SM4FPD, thanks Roy for a good antenna for small spaces. Really good Windom antenna for all bands from 40m to 10m including the Warc bands. Works very well and goes on all bands including the warc bands without too high SWR. Can be tuned with good results on 6m but works poorly on 80m. Avoid running the coax parallel to the antenna wires and preferably use a - RF-choke or similar to prevent RF to the shack, which can be a problem with Windom antennas. I myself have some tube ferrites on the coax just below the balun and have never noticed any RF in the shack. I bought this antenna but it is easy to build yourself. The antenna is designed and sold by Nigel Booth - M0CVO This is another good multiband antenna with small dimensions that also works well even on 80m. Click on the PDF button for a more detailed presentation of the antenna Step fed Min stegmatade dipol på min remoteplats. Troligen Sveriges dyraste stege då min dotter som monterade ihop den fick 4 kronor för varje stegpinne :-) Här kan man se de låga förlusterna vid en stegmatad antenn. Kan man bara stämma av den så är furlusterna försvinnade små. Längkarta på dipol och steglängder En linkkopplad Anneke-tuner avsedd för stegmatning. Vill man slippa tuner går det bra att koppla in olika steglängder för att hamna rätt. Baluns and chokes Here, 2 baluns are suitable for several of the antennas on the side. They are wound on the toroid core Amidon FT 240-43 which is easy to find for purchase._cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf5 50d_Maxw power ca. If you need higher power endurance, you stack two cores, maximum power 1000w. If you want to read more about baluns and how you make them, visit Wolfgang Wippermann's (SK) website. He was a guru on baluns and on the website he shares the knowledge of building well-functioning baluns. https://www.wolfgang-wippermann.de/ Här på VK6YSF hemsida hittar du också bra beskrivningar hur du bygger baluner. https://vk6ysf.com/balun_choke_balun_low_vhf.htm You can build an RF choke by wrapping the coax around a plastic tube, a so-called "uggly balun". The coax wound around a toroid core provides a wider bandwidth RF-Choke. You can see the number of turns and frame/toroid here. Antennmyter inom amatörradion Bertil Lindqvist, SM6ENG, har funderat mycket över myterna inom amatörradiovärlden. Här har han sammanställt och kommenterat ett antal av de myter och missförstånd han tycker är vanligast förekommande. Även Bengt Lundgren, SM6APQ (Silent key) är med som författare. Sidorna är hämtade från ESR med deras godkännande. Besök gärna deras hemsida som innehåller mycket matnyttigt för den teknikintresserade amatören. - Måste en antenn vara i resonans för att fungera? - Tar en antennanpassningsenhet bort ståendevåg på koaxialkabeln? - Missförstånd om kabelns karateristiska impedans - Ger en koaxialkabel med hög förlust upphov till ståendevåg? - Fungerar en öppen feeder som en antenn? - En lågt sittande dipol har ingen riktverkan - Är G5RV en multibandantenn? - Förlorar man lika mycket i sändning som i mottagning om verkningsgraden i en antenn är dålig? - Ger högt ståendevågförhållande RF-Problem (EMI) för närliggande utrustningar? - Om vi har en sändare som ger 100W uteffekt och ståendevågförhållandet (SVF) är 3:1 kommer det då ut 75W i antennen? - Det finns motsägande budskap om baluner - Hur påverkas ståendevågförhållandet av PL-259-kontakten? - Jordning - Myter om balanserade/obalanserade koaxialkablar och antenner - "Tysta antenner" - Balanserad matning och feederstrålning - Horisontella dipoler över reel jord - Koaxdipoler Links Here are some useful links for those of you building antennas 66pacific K7MEM M0UKD 1728.0rg Lots of wire antennas Antenna simulation program DK7ZB:s hemsida med massor av antennritningar IZ0UPS Workshop (Italienska)

Click on the PDF button to take part in a presentation on digital modes of transport Software: Digipan - PSK, Pactor and FSK MTTY - RTTY WSJT-X - JT65, FT8, WSPR and more FLDIGI - Thor, Olivia and more Dimension 4 - Clock correction program for PC Time.is - Check your PC clock JS8Call Digital Clusters: WSPR.net PSK reporter Hamspots See also under the "Cluster" tab Modem: Signal inc Digital signals: Signal identification

My remote station Here is some information about my remote station. The mast stands on a hill outside Åmål about 1km from home. The main antenna is an 80m dipole set up as an inverted V and with step feed. I also have other antennas in the mast, which is also equipped with a sled. The steps from the dipole go into these baluns that I built and the feed then continues as coax into the autotuner, The antenna can be tuned without problems on all bands from 160m to 10m. The station consists of an IC-706MKIIG, remote control from Remoterig and a 4G router. The autotuner comes from MFJ. There is also a Windows computer with Chrome remote desktop installed so I can get into the router's and Remoterig's web interface, pull out the antennas and control the antenna switch from home. The remote station also has a Web-SDR that I connected with my radio at home with the help of Omnirig so they follow each other in frequency, mode and mute at tx. The SDR receiver is an Air Spy and the software is Spy Server installed on a Windows computer. The software at home is SDR Console also installed on a Windows computer and with the screen mounted directly above my station. I can broadcast with the station at home and listen to interference-free reception with waterfall and spectrum scope from the remote station. Remote control of antenna contacts in case of thunder. Around the remote station, there is a collaboration with Åmål Municipality so that it can be used in social crises. At the moment we are working on a solution to be able to control it via radio link and thus be independent of the internet. Reserve power for the power supply is also underway. The station also has a special signal - 8S6K

Here you can read a little about me and my stations. The name is Anders Karlsson and I got my signal SM6POP in the mid-80s. My QTH is Åmål in beautiful Dalsland whose harbor is the subject of my QSL card. Welcome to my shack, the stations I currently use are: Shortwave - 50MHz, SSB and CW, Icom IC-7300. Shortwave - 50MHz, digital traffic modes, Icom IC-7400 + Signalink 2m -70cm, FM, SSB and CW, Yaesu FT-897 69MHz, Anytone AT-588 Spare station Icom IC-746 Shortwave - 50MHz - 2m and 70cm in the car, Icom IC-706MKII-G Remote station Icom IC-706MKII-G and Remoterig Amplifiers: ES Radiotel HLA 300 Plus HP500, 500w short wave Huttinger 139844, 1.1KW short wave Dentron Clipperton L, 1KW short wave Tokyo HiPower HL-180V, 180w VHF Vintage: Drake R4 and T4X from 1965 was my first HF station which I bought at SRS in 1986. After gathering dust since the mid 90s it is now newly refurbished and ready to go again. A C-line is also newly renovated and has been given its place in the shack. Shortwave, 2m and 69MHz in the boat house, Yaesu FT-450, TYT TH-9000 and Ericsson C-702 My antennas can you read more about under the Antennas and Remote station.

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