The 5250 – 5450 kHz range Allowed for Bulgarian radio amateurs 1 class on a secondary basis. All classes of emission with a maximum permissible power 100 W are permitted for this frequency range, except for the 5351.5 – 5366.5 kHz band, where amateur radio stations must not exceed 15 […]
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What is a typical CW radio contact? Here is a typical, slightly longer (Rag-Chewing*) CW contact (QSO) between Bulgarian station LZ3AI and American station W1ABC, using standard abbreviations: Sample CW Radio Contact (QSO) Station Sent CW text Translation of the lines W1ABC CQ CQ DE W1ABC W1ABC K I’m calling […]
Q-Codes: Why Radio Operators Speak in Abbreviations (and Why It’s Cool) In the age of emojis, gifs, and “OK, is the Boomer in service again?”, imagine having a “secret language” that’s older than your grandmother, but still super effective and required in one of the coolest hobbies – radio amateurism! […]
Complete list of ham prefixes This list contains all (or at least almost all) prefixes that can be heard on the radio amateur airwaves as of March 9, 2024. The list has been collected and maintained for years. I hope it will be useful to many fellow radio amateurs. The […]
Complete list of radio amateur codes, abbreviations and expressions I do not claim that it is absolutely complete, I can only claim that it is the complete list that I have heard in my activity as a radio amateur (the last 50 years of my life). Code Meaning Notes . […]
My Latest Radio Contacts This is an excerpt from QRZ.com for the radio links made by me (Tony, LZ3AI). My latest radio contacts (QSOs) are usually not the last. The sample itself is real-time and shows the latest uploaded to QRZ.com, but not the last ones made and reflected […]
Making a DX QSO is not much different than making regular QSOs. However, there are certain peculiarities due to the increased interest in DX, and sometimes even due to his personal qualities. In any case, however, the ethical rules must be at a high level in order to make the […]
What is APRS? APRS stands for Automatic Position Reporting System. APRS arose with attempts to use PACKET-RADIO for civilian real-time purposes. PACKET-RADIO is not a good solution for networks in which information is updated for a short time and where it is more important not to have 100% reception, but […]
Learn CW Online – also translated into Bulgarian (http://lcwo.net/bg/welcome) UBA (Belgian Radio Amateur Organization) CW course (www.uba.be) Contest Simulation (www.dxatlas.com/MorseRunner) Boost your speed using RUFZ (www.rufzxp.net) A few useful tidbits: Never learn CW by counting DITs and DAHs… Never learn CW in groups of similar characters (eg: E, I, S, […]