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This SheevaPlug web server is dedicated to amateur radio enjoyment. See picture at end of page.
Tucson Ham Picnic Pictures Fall 2009
Each file is about 4MB in size for a total of 438MB.
Site Pages Links to other sites
Beacon lists Links to beacon lists, programs and news
This website is ALWAYS a work-in-progress. Please come back often.
Oct 24, 2009 - I started running Windows 7 Home Premium.
Even the XYL thinks it is better than either XP or Vista, especially the graphics. So far everything works as well as, if not better, than before. Even PropNetPSK version 4.3.0.2 is running great. We're using the 32-bit version on the laptops and the 64-bit version on the desktops. It is definitely MUCH faster than either XP or Vista. At last we get to use all the memory installed in the desktops and both parts of the dual-core processors! For the moment, they are all set up as dual-boot for XP and Win7 while we get used to the new Windows 7 (and make sure all the files are in place). It is also running nicely on my netbook (1GB ram, 1.6GHz CPU, 16GB SSD)
Yes, I'm still running Linux for my web site!
UPCOMING EVENTS When/what/where
RST club meeting Tue Jan 12th 2010 7:00 pm  
El Parador at 2744 E Broadway -lots of parking now
Pre-meeting dinner there at 5:00 - no extra driving
December meeting is the Christmas party
Arizona Events List of upcoming events from ARRL for Arizona
SW Division Calendar Link to N6AA Southwestern Division Calendar of Events
When-all-else-fails     click on image for larger view Courtesy ARRL
Site Pages
Link What is there Last updated
PropNetPSK PropNetPSK versions available here
Click here to see current propagation map for North America 		28-Oct-2009
Digital HTML References Links to Digital Mode information and programs on other sites
Including Links to several PSK31 videos 		07-Feb-2009
W7HD antenna A small field portable dipole (May 2003 QST article) 23-Sep-2007
PSK frequencies My list of PSK frequencies gathered from others.
Now includes the PropNET frequencies		 Updated
12-Jul-2009
W7HD Linux Page All my Linux stuff is now here 07-Jul-2009
HUGE UPDATE
Ham downloads Ham programs and files to download from here,
including digital modes		 01-Mar-2009
HFWIN propagation predictor See where you should be able to talk to at what time-of-day 22-Feb-2008
Windows files Windows freeware utilities available for download 25-May-2009
Cellphone text messaging What email addresses to use for text messaging 25-Oct-2008
Tips and Tricks Tips and Tricks for amateur radio, RVers & misc. by W7HD 01-Aug-2009
Links to other sites
N4LCD Freq List Bandplans - Commonly used amateur frequencies (160M-70cm)
HFRADIO NW7US Space Weather and Propagation Podcast
FCC FCC Amateur Radio Service website
Call sign lookup Lookup amateur call sign on FCC database
Newhams Stan KE7VKQ Elmer website for new hams
www.arrl.org American Radio Relay League, W1AW, Newington, CT
Amateur Radio News and a lot of reference material available here
ARRL Vec pools Link to ARRL VEC question pools for all ham tests
Arizona Hamfests ARRL Arizona Hamfest Listing
ARCA Amateur Radio Council of Arizona
ARA Arizona Repeater Association
AZ Repeater Coordination Arizona Repeater Owners Frequency Coordination
CalculatorEdge Handy online engineering calculators
KB5B Terry's website
Tucson Area Nets N7JND Tucson Net Listing
N7JND website Chris has lots of nice photos! Even webcams on Mt. Lemmon...
RST Radio Club Radio Society of Tucson radio club
AZ T-Hunters Neat site for the Radio Society of Tucson T-Hunters SIG
AMSAT The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation
XRAY PLOTS GOES Xray Flux (5 minute data) chart
PropNet Propnet - Current propagation maps: be a station, lurker or probe
Real-time propagation for several bands.
30-meter Digital 30-meter digital group - lots of good info, esp.
Digital Help/Tips
Miscellaneous stuff
Junk email How to help stop junk email!!!
RST Signal The RST Signal Report System
If you have any comments or questions,
You can frequently find me on PSK-31 on 10/17/30 meters on weekday evenings,
usually as a PropNET automatically controlled digital station. That means
that I am transmitting 4-6 times per hour and listening for other PropNET
stations, but usually won't respond to a QSO request, since we are doing
propagation studies.
I also often monitor 146.800/448.325 (K7RST) at the same time.
Speakeasy Speed Test Click on
SPEEDTEST
to test your
Internet speed. 		My results to Dallas on Comcast cable
on 2009.10.25 at 07:32:00 MST
(19,671kbps) 2458.9 KB/sec down
( 2,589kbps)  323.6 KB/sec up
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