Amateur Radio Licensing

Some web sites to help with Amateur Radio Licensing

• Ham Study - sponsored by ICOM
• http://hamexam.org/ - Amateur Radio Practice Exams
• http://www.qsl.net/k/kb7tbt//newham/ - Ham Help page.  Comprehensive list of links.
• http://aa9pw.com/ - FCC Exam practice
• http://www.qrz.com/page/ham-radio-howto.html - Summary
• http://www.arrl.org/getting-licensed - Getting Licensed comments
• http://www.arrl.org/licensing-education-training
• Ham Lesson of the day - archives
• KB6NU Study Guides
• Ham Test Online

What to do with an NW-MESH system?

Folks keep asking what they can do with a NW-MESH (equivalent to HSMM-MESH, Broadband Hamnet, etc).

Here's my list of what I've done or an doing with it.

• I needed to put the Raspberry PI on the internet for a system update.   All four sockets in the nearest router were in use.  I grabbed another NW-MESH router, turned it on and plugged in the PI.  It was on the Internet and updating..
• The file server is in the back of the house.  Both formats of new movie are on the laptop in the front room.  I run WINSCP from the laptop and copy the files to the server and in a little while the 8+ Gigabytes were safely archived.
• I have an IP camera (Trendnet TV-IP551W) taking pictures of the front yard.  It takes a picture every five minutes and transfers it to an FTP server archive.  The camera and netbook running the FTP server, filezilla, are currently on the same router but they could be on any of the four NW-MESH routers currently running.
• To access the pictures, I bring up the home page of the lighttpd web server running on the netbook and click on the link to the web cam archives.  Then I can access, by day, any of the pictures.
• It's fun to just check the wifi heard list of the Ubiquity Bullet on the table on the back deck.  I'm hearing three pages of stations.   It will be even more interesting with I raise the height a bit or put on the directional high gain VAGI antenna.
• More soon...

Error Correcting Soundcard Packet

My first packet received thanks to a bit corrected...   Note the [SINGLE] in the status.

1:Fm VE4GLS To APU25N Via GATE [19:03:06R] [SINGLE]
>160203zDX: W7KKE 45.00.66N 124.00.35W 2068.9km 267ø 11:04

It's a little thing (that's some 'small' humor) but I got a kick out of it.

Update:

The monitoring of HF 300 baud packet on 10149.3 MHz CF continues. The display screen shows 17 packets from 6 different stations around the country.   Two of those 17 packets are tagged as having [SINGLE] bit errors fixed.

No APRS-MESSENGER psk packets decoded yet.  I have to tweak the frequency settings on that application.

I need a better antenna....