NEW HAM TIPS

• • What is Amateur Radio
    A PDF Presentation

• • What is Amateur Radio
    A Video

• • Ham Backgrounder

• • How to get FCC Registation Number

• • New Comer Tips

• • Ham Etiquette

• • Phonetic Alphabet

• • Field Expedient Antennas

• • Troubleshooting 101: RF Mayhem
    Steve Ford, WB8IMY, QST

• • Guide to DMR

• • FCC Rules & Regulations
     Part 97 Amateur Service

• • Find Your Grid Square

ANTENNAS & PROPAGATION

ANTENNA PAGE. topics include:

• •  Antennas for Beginners
  •  Advanced Antennas
  •  Near Vertical Incidence Skywave
  •  Counterpoise & Radials
  •  Transmission & Propagation
  •  Antenna Links

FILTERS, CAVITIES, & CIRCULATORS

• • Introduction to Filter Structures for Radio Signals
    A Sinclair Technologies White Paper

• • A Guide to Basic Types of Cavity Combiners
    A Sinclair Technologies White Paper

• • ISOLATORS AND CIRCULATORS FOR RADIO
     SIGNALS
    A Sinclair Technologies White Paper

Classic Technical Papers

Original technical treatises founding the communications industry.

• • Certain Factors Affecting Telegraph Speed
    Nyquist, H., Bell System Technical Journal (1924)

• • TRANSMISSION of INFORMATION
    Hartley, R.V.L., Bell Systems Technical Journal, (1928)

• • E. H. Armstrong - Frequency Modulation.
    A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio
    Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation
     (1936)

• • A Mathematical Theory of Communications
    C. E. Shannon, Bell System Technical Journal
     (1948)  Explains statistical structure of bandwidth
     vs.noise in a communications channel.

• • INFORMATION THEORY
    Information Theory and the Digital Age
     A history of communications theory and coding
     evolution.

GROUNDING AND BONDING

Electrtical Grounding for Safety is one of the most important and least understood topic in Ham Radio, having the most published misinformation.  The following papers represent industry and military standards.  Grounding and bonding is for safety and is NOT an Antenna counterpoise.

• • IEEE Testing & Evaluation of Grounding Systems

• • US Army TM 5-690 Grounding & Bonding
    In Command, Control, Communications,
    Computer Facilities (183 pages)

• • Recommendations For Transmitter Site
     Preparation
    Nautel, 2004 (62 pages)

• • Grounding & Bonding Testing
    A Bicsi Presentation (117 pages)

• •  Standards and Guidelines
     For Communication Sites
     R56 by Motorola, 2005 (518 pages)

• •  FAA Lightning & Surge Protection,
     Grounding, Bonding & Shielding Requirements
     For Facilities and Electronic Equipment
     FAA-STD-019e, 2005, (112 pages)

• •  Site Grounding & Lightning Protection
     MA Com Standards

• •  Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Protection
     and Restoration Guidelines for Equipment
     and Facilities
     Dept Homeland Security, 2016

• •  NWS Lightning Protection, Grounding & Bonding,
     Grounding & Bonding, Shielding, and
     Surge Protection
     Engineering Handbook No. 3 - Facilities
     NWSM 30-4116 Sept. 2003. 131 pages

TEST & MEASUREMENT

• •  RF Interference Hunting Techniques

• •  Understanding Interference Hunting

• •  Wire Characteristics at RF
     H. Ward Silver, N0AX, QST

• •  Mitigation of Radio Noise
     From External Sources at
     Radio Receiving Sites
     Naval Postgraduate School

• •  SINAD SIgnal Noise And Distortion

• •  Using Spectrum Laboratory
     (Spec Lab) for Precise Audio
     Frequency Measurements
     Jaques Audet - VE2AZX

• •  Understanding Spectrum & Signal Analysis
     Anritsu

• •  Introduction to Frequency Calibrations
     National Institute of Standards and Technology

• •  Oscillator Frequency Performance
      Measurements
      A presentation by Bertrand Zauhar - VEZAZ

• •  Fundamentals of Time and Frequency
     Michael A. Lombardi, K0WWX
     National Institute of Standards and Technology

• •  Measuring the Frequency Accuracy
     and Stability of WWV and WWVH
     Michael A. Lombardi, K0WWX
     QST, March 2023

• •  Frequency Stability Measurement:
     Technologies, Trends, and Tricks
     John Miles, KE5FX

• •  Digital Comms Optimized?
     Is your Digital RF Comms System Optimized to
     Provide the High Performance it was Designed
     to Deliver?
     Mikle Fortna, Cobham AvComm

• •  Evaluation of RF Network Testing
     An Industry Review of Techniques & Procedures
     Brian Corely; et al
     Anritsu

• •  Understanding Phase Noise Fundamentals
     ROHDE & SCHWARZ

• •  Understanding Phase Noise Measurement
     Techniques
     ROHDE & SCHWARZ

PROJECTS

• •  SignaLink Improvements
     Signalink USB Mods
     Mat Breton - AB8VJ

• •  A Ham' Guide to RFI
     Ferrites, Baluns, and Audio Interfacting
     Jim Brown - K9YC

• •  Troubleshooting 101
     RF Mayhem
     QST, July 2017

• •  S-Parameter Design
     Agilent Application Note
     Agilent AN 154

• •  Fox Hunting Radio Keyer
     KN4YFI

• •  Band-Pass Filters for HF Transceivers
     Lew Gordon, K4VX