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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.

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.
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.



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.

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.

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.

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.


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.

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.

CFR 47 PART 95 - PERSONAL RADIO SERVICE


This includes the following for FYI :

47 CFR Part 97 - AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE


This includes the following for FYI :

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).

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.


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.


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!!!

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!


It can be a stand alone software or if you prefer an online version where one uses their browser. Go to http://www.ve2dbe.com/rmonline.html fot that one.



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.

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.




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.
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.




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!

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]


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.






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).


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.




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/.




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.

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.

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.


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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