Mnemonics/General Class License
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Morse Code
Prosigns
BT - new paragraph
AR - new page (the-end-of-mes-sage)
CT - commence (important) transmission
SK - end of contact (silencing key)
SOS - distress signal
BK - b(ac)k to you
Conversation Protocol
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Chapter 3
Regulatory Bodies
Licensing Rules
Operating Privileges
Spectrum Sequence
| Frequency | Wavelength |
| 1.8 | 160 |
| 3.5 | 80 |
| 7 | 40 |
| 14 | 20 |
| 21 | 15 |
| 28 | 10 |
10 meters
The Ham's Band
28.0 - 29.7 MHz
(28.000-28.300 MHz data, 28.300-29.700 MHz phone)
satellites, wide4, all modes
sunlight+, sunspots+, solar cycle+
working ham satellites up in the heavens twenty-eight-zero to twenty-nine-seven
12 meters
Spotty DX
24.8 - 24.9 MHz
(24.890-24.990 MHz)
heavily influenced by sunspots, bad dozens mi, good thousands mi
if there are sunspots 12 meters is fine twelve-to-twenty-four, 8 to 9,
15 meters
Daytime DX
21.0-21.4 MHz
(21.025-21.450 MHz)
Like 40
fifteen in the daytime will open the door twenty-one-zero to twenty-one-four
17 meters
Mobile DX
18.0-18.1
(18.068-18.168 MHz, of which 18.068-18.110 MHz data, 18.110-18.168 MHz phone)
mobile DXing for profit and fun seventeen-eighteen, zero-to-one
20 meters data
DX
14.025-14.150
(14.025-14.150 MHz data)
for data on 20, you need to do math fourteen and a quarter, a buck and a half
20 meters phone
DX
14.225-14.350 MHz phone
(14.225-14.350 MHz phone)
phone contests are nifty two-two-five to three-fifty
30 meters
Digital pocket
Secondary, data, no phone
200 W PEP
ten-dot-ten thru ten-dot-fifteen for data on 30, be squeaky clean
40 meters
Old Faithful
DX night, NVIS day
7.025-7.125 MHz (data)
7.175-7.300 MHz (phone)
use an antenna that's tied to a tree seven-point-zero to seven-point-three
60 meters
5chan
5.3 - 5.4 MHz
100 W ERP
(5332 kHz, 5348 kHz, 5358 kHz, 5373 kHz, 5405 kHz)
6-5-4-3, don't go on a power spree
80 meters
The Ragchewer's Band
regional, high weather/urban noise floor, 1000 mi max
3.5-3.600 MHz
(3.525-3.600 MHz data)
3.800-4.000 MHz
three-five to three-six, three-eight to four-zero the ragchewer's band has quite a noise floor
160 meters
The Gentleman's Band
1.800-2.000 MHz
Original, oldest, LORAN, night DX
one-point-eight to two-point-oh the Gentleman's Band's the way to go