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We organize and
administrate a network of publicly-accessible
(license required) Amateur Radio
repeater and remote base stations accessible
to each other via Voice over IP on the
Internet.
The audio quality is superb by the use of the
Dolby 7 sound technology.
Our Administrative and Web presence and
methodology has been completely re-vamped and
vastly improved. There is no software to
download to use AllStar. For those who want to
enhance their repeater with AllStar, there is
a download.
Click Here to see the list
of all AllStar Link Network nodes.
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Amateur Radio Newsline™ is a
free service to the amateur radio community.
We produce a weekly audio news bulletin
called a “QST” or “bulletin of interest to radio
amateurs” that is delivered by a downloadable
MP3 audio file from our website and over an
automated dial-in telephone line.
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AMSAT
is a name for amateur radio satellite
organizations worldwide, but in particular the
Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT-NA)
with headquarters at Silver Spring, Maryland,
near Washington DC.
AMSAT organizations design, build, arrange
launches for, and then operate (command)
satellites carrying amateur radio payloads,
including the OSCAR series of satellites.
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APRS
- Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS)
(also known as "Automatic Position Reporting
System") is an amateur radio based digital
communication system for real-time exchange of
digital information to users on the network. APRS was originally
developed by Bob
Bruninga, WB4APR
more than 20 years ago. It has since evolved into
a robust system of interconnected networks. Xastir is a
computer application that provides client access
to this network using the APRS
protocol.
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DMR For Dummies!
Don’t feel bad. Our name is NOT intended to be
derogatory in anyway, but it’s a reality for all
of us when we first pick up a DMR radio. The
transition from an analog state-of-mind for all
hams is kind of a stretch. It sure was for us.
So we decided to do something about it. At D4D,
you’ll find many tips and tricks to help you get
started.
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The DMR MAP is
a cross platform map of DMR Repeaters!
Digital Mobile Radio (DMR)
uses the Motorola TRBO protocol for
communications. Like other digital modes such
as D-Star, C4FM and APCO P25, the TRBO
protocol converts your voice into a digital
form and sends it out via RF (with other bits
of information included) and allows you to
communicate to other DMR radios and also DMR
repeaters, which are networked together around
the world via the internet.
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DZKit Is
Bringing Back The Tradition And Fun Of
Building Complex Kits
Over the years, one by one, all
the great electronic kit manufacturers have
disappeared - Eico, Knight, Dynaco, Heath.
Perhaps the most devastating for the home
electronics enthusiast was the loss of
Heathkit®, a mainstay from 1947 to the
mid-1980's. Heathkit advertised
"World's finest electronic equipment in kit
form". ....
You can still have fun building an
electronic project, learn how it works, and
have the pride that comes with knowing you
built it yourself.
Brian Wood, W0DZ, a design and application
engineer at HP/Agilent, wanted to restore
the fun of kitbuilding to a new generation.
He knew that there's a huge pent-up demand
for new, complex, nice-looking kits that
offer value not available elsewhere. To that
end, he retired early (by choice, a strange
occurrence with all the layoffs in the
industry) and formed The DZ Co., LLC, dba
"DZKit". Its goal is to allow
electronics enthusiasts and others with a
passion for learning to have a chance to
recapture the fun of doing it yourself while
building products with unique features.
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License Search
If you are looking for your first
license or have upgraded, the ULS License Search
enables you to search for a wide range of
licenses in the Universal Licensing System. The
License Search provides access to the most basic
attributes of a license.
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Renewing
Your License
If you need to renew your license or make an
address change, this BDARC page will help!
Click this FCC logo to go to the BDARC License
Renewing Instructions page on here.
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CFR 47
PART 95 - PERSONAL RADIO SERVICE
This includes the following
for FYI :
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47 CFR Part 97 - AMATEUR RADIO
SERVICE
This includes the following for
FYI :
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The purpose of Linux Mint
is to produce a modern, elegant and
comfortable operating system which is both
powerful and easy to use.
Linux Mint is one of the most
popular desktop Linux distributions and used
by millions of people.
Some of the
reasons for the success of Linux Mint are:
- It works out of the
box, with full multimedia support and is
extremely easy to use.
- It's
both free of cost and open source.
- It's community-driven.
Users are encouraged to send feedback to
the project so that their ideas can be
used to improve Linux Mint.
- Based on Debian and
Ubuntu, it provides about 30,000
packages and one of the best software
managers.
- It's safe and reliable.
Thanks to a conservative approach to
software updates, a unique Update
Manager and the robustness of its Linux
architecture, Linux Mint requires very
little maintenance (no regressions, no
antivirus, no anti-spyware...etc).
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OpenRepeater
started back in the beginning of 2014 as the
Raspberry Pi Repeater Controller Project but
that quickly evolved into the Open Repeater
Project. It's the same project but as some
things change like working on making the project
open source, building a community around the
project, and expanding out to other embedded
Linux boards, a name change was a no brainier.
About
This project was started as a small proof of
concept idea but as it was worked on, it's
potential started to become more evident. In the
beginning the creator spend some
time deciding if wanted to take a
commercial route with the project or make it
open source. GREAT NEWS FOR HAMS...the project
is Open Source!
Goals & Features
In setting out to develop this project my
primary goals and features are to develop a low
cost, low power, but feature rich duplex
repeater controller suitable for setting up a
temporary / emergency repeater systems with
radios that can be run on portable power.
However with a more complete feature set and a
modular design, it could also be used as a
primary or a backup controller for a permeant
installation repeater. With the low cost,
modular design, it would make it easy to keep
backup hardware on site for easy service
swap-outs.
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QRZ is a great place for call sign
search. But, there's much much more, including
an online logbook!!!
For a greater explanation, that is too
large to be printed here, go to http://qrz.com/page/about.html.
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QSL.net
is dedicated to the sole purpose of furthering
the abilities and interest of the Amateur Radio
Community. If you are a licensed Amateur Radio
Operator you are invited to reserve your free
space on this server.
Sign
Up and you will receive a free @qsl.net
e-mail address that forwards to your existing
e-mail account, along with free web server space
to either move your homepage to this server,
mirror your existing one, or lose all those
excuses and finally START one.
You may also be interested in joining one
of over 600 amateur radio mailing lists... or
even starting your own e-mail mailing list...
utilizing our Mailman mailing list server. See http://mailman.qth.net
for more information.
For DX'ers, take a look at DX.QSL.NET,
managed by N6RT. You can search through over
2000 DX logs from over 100 different countries,
using our powerful log search engine. You can
also view a large collection of dynamic
propagation information and reports, including
our new Tropo Ducting Reports. And you may wish
to spend some time with the #CQDX Chat service,
where you can chat with other DXers and view
real-time spots from DX Summit.
Tell your fellow Hams about our free
services. Spread the word, encourage this site
to all Amateur Radio Operators -- the more the
better.
This entire site IS on QSL.NET's server!!!
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Radio
Mobile is software by Roger
Coudé VE2DBE, which is a program that simulates
RF propagation and is dedicated to
amateur radio and humanitarian use
for free!
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The SeaMonkey®
Project is
a community effort to develop the SeaMonkey
all-in-one internet application suite (see
below). Such a software suite was previously
made popular by Netscape and Mozilla, and the
SeaMonkey project continues to develop and
deliver high-quality updates to this concept.
Containing an Internet browser, email &
newsgroup client with an included web feed
reader, HTML editor, IRC chat and web
development tools, SeaMonkey is sure to appeal
to advanced users, web developers and
corporate users.
Security levels much higher
than any other internet suite!
One not only browse the
internet, but also, has a POP2 Mail client,
Newsgroup Client, Composer/editor for website
construction, and much more!!!
This whole site was done using
SeaMonkey!
Here is the WiKi on SeaMonkey : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMonkey.
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The
SOUTHEASTERN REPEATER
ASSOCIATION, INC. (SERA) is
the largest Amateur Radio Repeater Coordinating
organization in the United States. Whether you
are looking for specific information or just
surfing the web, we encourage you to browse
through the information presented here. We hope
that in some way this web site will be
beneficial to you.
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We have the most up-to-date
amateur radio repeater listings (updated by you,
our admins, and repeater coordinators). This
site is different than others becauase we use
local admins that collect repeater data. No
repeater directory can be 100% up-to-date, but
we believe this one is more up-to-date and
comprehensive than any other you can find.
Visitors are invited to update and add listings.
You can also rate and comment on the repeaters.
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About
Licensing: Anyone can become a ham except
representatives of foreign governments. There
are no age restrictions. If you can pass the
written tests, you can be a licensed ham
operator. There have even been 6 year old kids
get their ham operator license. The entry
level license is the Technician Class license.
That license class began in 1991 and now has
the largest number of participants. To become
a Technician Class operator, you need only
pass one (35 question) multiple choice written
test (Exam Element 2) to obtain your FCC
license.
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BDARC (Black
Diamond Amateur Radio Club) was
formed in 1955. Like most clubs it has seen
its membership fluctuate over the years. When
the hobby first went to the "no code tech"
licensing system in the early ‘90's there was
a drastic increase in the number of folks
entering the hobby and a correspondent
increase in club membership. We had a
membership of close to 100 people in those
days. In later years those numbers have
dwindled - we think in large part due to the
widespread use of cell phones and other
communication devices. However we now see a
renewed interest in the hobby with the move
away from Morse Code altogether.
BDARC owns and maintains a
repeater which operates on frequency 145.370
MHz. it has a 100. cps tone with negative
offset, located, on the old EOC tower in
Beckley, Raleigh County, West Virginia, with
the club call of WV8BD!
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Coal
Fields Amateur Radio Association ....
.... was supposed to be an association of
Amateur Radio operators, other clubs and such
to promote Amateur Radio in the Coal Fields of
West Virginia and Kentucky.
Apathy in this region has
killed the association from forming.
It's last
breath and entered into death occurred at
midnight of 20190731.
If you wish to help or are interested in such
in the region, click the CFARA logo.
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WEST
VIRGINIA STATE AMATEUR RADIO COUNCIL, INC.
...It
shall be our purpose to facilitate the
exchange of information and general
cooperation between amateurs, to promote radio
knowledge, fraternalism and individual
operating efficiency, and to so conduct the
programs amateur radio and the ARRL in West
Virginia. In addition, this organization shall
organize, sponsor and conduct the West
Virginia ARRL Amateur Radio Convention; shall
work in concert with the WV Section ARRL
Leadership to coordinate the Convention; and
shall advertise and promote the Convention as
an ARRL sanctioned activity. [Quote from
WVSARC Mission Statement]
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The East
River Amateur Radio Club, Inc., is
located in Bluefield, West Virginia. The club's
call sign is W8MOP. The ERARC was incorporated
in 1960 and has an active membership of more
than 100.
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Based in
Charleston, West Virginia, The
Kanawha Amateur Radio Club is a volunteer
nonprofit organization composed of FCC
Licensed Radio Amateurs. The purpose of the
organization is to provide community service
and training.
Our volunteers represent
all facets of the local community. We have
blue collar, professional, and most other
occupations represented in our membership.
Those volunteers have knowledge and training
from things as easy as being National Weather
Service weather spotters, to the intricacies
of homebuilding radios, using radios to 'IM'
each other, and communicate around the world
through voice, CW (Morse Code) and digital
(Instant Messaging).
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From Logan, West Virginia,
The club has been around for many years but
people in the area lost interest. The club
died down for a while and many of the members
left but now we’re starting to grow
again. We are located in Logan, West
Virginia about 60 miles south of Charleston.
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From Lewisburg,
West Virginia, The Southern West
Virginia Amateur Radio Association Inc.
(SWVARAI) is a not for profit amateur radio
club serving local communities with
communications in times of emergency. If you
live in the southern West Virginia area and
are a amateur radio operator you might like to
join our club. If you are traveling through
our area please feel free to use our repeater
and check into our nets.
Facebook link is : https://www.facebook.com/swvra/.
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The
United States of America is a Federal Republic
consisting of fifty states and a federal
district, as well as several territories. It is
commonly called the United States of America
(US, USA, U.S. or U.S.A.) and just America. The
country is situated mostly in Southern North
America, where its forty-eight contiguous states
and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie
between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans,
bordered by Canada to the north and Central
America's Mexico to the south. The state of
Alaska is situated in the northwest portion of
the continent, with Canada to its east and
Russia to its west across the Bering Strait. The
state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the Mid
Pacific. The country also has several
territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
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West
Virginia in the only state born from the Civil
War, and, is noted for its mountains and diverse
topography, its historically significant logging
and coal mining industries, and its political
and labor history. It is one of the most densely
karstic areas in the world, making it a choice
area for recreational caving and scientific
research. West Virginia's western border follows
the western bank-edge of the Ohio River and
fluctuates continually.
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Raleigh County was once a
favorite site for fur traders who traveled
through the country in search of beaver pelts.
The first settlers came to the area in
1792. The most prominent of these was
Brigadier General Alfred Beckley for whom the
City of Beckley was named. Differences of
opinion on the issues that brought forth the
Civil War led to the creation of the new state
of West Virginia on June 20, 1863. Raleigh
County was named after Sir Walter Raleigh, an
English soldier, adventurer, and the favorite of
Queen Elizabeth, and was formed from parts of
Fayette County on January 23, 1850.
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We invite you to share in the
growth of our enthusiastic new business
destination, a pristine highland opened by
expressways and interstates in the 1990s.
Tourism, technology, and transportation thrive
here amid three national parks in the very
center of the Eastern U.S. But perhaps more than
a great place to work, Beckley is an ideal place
to live. A low crime rate (West Virginia has
enjoyed the nation's lowest crime rate for a
half century, for her citizens are very well
armed) attracts many of our new residents. But
we can't neglect the lofty plateaus of forest
and farmland for which our area is known. Even
in the heart of the largest city in Raleigh
County, you'll find woodland and park around
every corner. We invite you to explore our
communities -- online or by touring the area.
And we hope you find this collection of
information and photographs helpful and
entertaining.
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