Introduction & Overview

This is the HAM Radio page where we are building the knowledge about Radios and Radio Tech

📌(Pinned) Technician Class Pool Questions - Effective 7/01/2022 – 6/30/2026

This is the pool of 400 Technician Class questions.  You will get asked about 30 of these questions.  They will be exactly these questions.  If you study these questions for about 2 week, and read the question and the right answer, when you take the test, only the right answer will look right.

• Technician Class Pool Questions - Redacted

📌(Pinned) Where To Take A Test: (Focused On Silicon Valley)

• Silicon Valley VE Group - Amateur radio license exams in the South Bay - Looks like they offer an online test every 2 weeks

• https://www.amateur-radio.org/ - This site has a list of the next test location.  Contact them to get more information.  Old HAM's just don't know how to create informative web pages.  ask me if you need help navigation this site.

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HAM - Rules and Regulations:

• TBD  Rules 

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Random Stuff To Sort

• Space Station and other Satellites - https://www.n2yo.com/?s=25544&live=1

• https://www.ariss.org/

• Transmitting Until Robots Replace Us <-- YouTube Channel 

• learn about a "Foxhole" simple radio - could we build them in class as a lab?

• Making ISS Ham Radio Contacts, FM repeater, APRS and SSTV

• How To Contact the International Space Station via Radio  <-- cross polarized Yagi 

• What it takes to listen to the ISS repeater

• How to Make Contact With the International Space Station Using Ham Radio

• Ham Radio DX - Youtube - @HamRadioDX

• https://www.instructables.com/Diy-Tape-Measure-Yagi-Antenna-for-Ham-Radio/ 

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National HAM Radio Organizations & Clubs:

The official FCC & ARRL Sites - 🕸️ Web Links

• ARRL

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Great Link to Local 

50MHz and Up Group

The 50 MHz and Up Group is an educational and public service amateur radio organization centered in the San Francisco South Bay area. The group is interested in developing and utilizing communications on frequencies from 50MHz up through light-waves. The group is open to any related topics that might be of interest to members, such as: technology, design, construction, operation, public service, contesting and antennas.
50MHz and Up

Foothills Amateur Radio Society

FARS is an amateur radio organization for the southern San Francisco Peninsula area in California serving residents of Los Altos, Palo Alto, Mountain View, and other nearby communities. Our regular monthly meetings are held on the fourth Friday of the month at Covington School in Los Altos.
FARS - Foothills Amateur Radio Society

Los Altos Hills Amateur Radio Club

We are just getting organized; this page is to describe what we want to accomplish, but feel free to suggest improvements!

The town of Los Altos Hills and the Los Altos Hills County Fire District have a robust program to respond to disasters.  But the old home for amateur radio (the Emergency Communications Committee - ECC) was retired by the town.

This ham club is meant to be the replacement for the ECC for amateur radio operators.

Our current goals for the club are:

• Be a social club to encourage participation and have fun

• Mentor new hams (and old hams learning new things)

• Find people to experiment with (e.g. LoRa, HaLo)

• Maintain the repeater and ham radio equipment in town

• Train ham radio operators so we are prepared for emergencies

• Conduct drills to test our knowledge

We are just forming the club and working on our procedures and goals.  We'd love to have you participate!

LAH Hams

Milbrae Amateur Radio Club

Our club members are committed to support communications in the City of Millbrae for events and emergency situations when normal means of contacts are not available.

To provide auxiliary communications as required by the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office when requested.

To promote learning communications techniques and technological advances in the art of amateur (ham) radio.

Provide a social setting for individuals interested in the radio hobby and a forum to exchange ideas.

Ham Radio Exams are available before each monthly club meeting.

Millbrae Amateur Radio Club

Northern California DX Club

The NCDXC was formed in 1946 and has over 200 members from all over Northern California, with most of the members residing in the 9 Bay Area counties. The NCDXC holds monthly meetings, maintains a repeater high above Silicon Valley, and provides an active on-line CHAT reflector. NCDXC member’s interest in DX is varied. Some members enjoy chasing entities for DXCC, five band DXCC, IOTA, Grid Squares, five band worked all zones while others chase DX on 6 meters and EME.
If you are beginning the chase for DX entities, NCDXC members will be happy to provide help to reach your next DX goal.
Northern California DX Club

Northern California Contest Club

The Northern California Contest Club is a specialized amateur radio club devoted to the pursuit of operating and technical excellence in radio contesting. Our goals are:

• To promote the fun, satisfaction and competitive thrill of radio contesting

• To help our members develop their operating and technical skills to become better contesters

• To win the club competition of major amateur radio contests

As an ARRL affiliated Club, NCCC was founded in August 1970. We have over 300 active members located throughout Northern California and parts of Nevada. NCCC counts as its members many #1 world ranked contest winners. NCCCers are also into DXing, technical design and construction (especially antennas), and public service

NorCal Contest Club Home Page

Palo Alto Amateur Radio Association

PAARA, “The Friendliest Ham Club Around”, is a general interest club that has members enjoying almost all aspects of amateur radio. With over 200 active members, surely someone in the club has experience in whatever activity you may find interesting. PAARA holds monthly meetings on the 1st Friday of every month, except when holidays fall on that Friday. Our meetings are held at the Cubberley Community Center in Palo Alto. Meetings are open to anyone, licensed or not, members or not. We do, however, invite you to join and learn with the rest of us.
Meetings include information on current ham radio news, upcoming on-air activities, and announcements of local events. Every meeting has a speaker whose topic is generally related to some aspect of amateur radio but maybe more of a general interest topic. A raffle is held at the conclusion of the meeting when lucky winners take away a variety of prizes, most related to our hobby. Every January is our Home Brew night where members bring various projects they’ve been working for show and tell. The December meeting features our “Dream to Reality” raffle where the grand prize is an HF radio!

PAARA - Meetings

RDF-SF Fox Hunting

RDF-SF is not actually a club, but a group of Hams who get together once a month to run a Radio Direction Finding event,  also called a Fox hunt.  You may join a team to ride along and learn,  and later start to gather your own setup and start your own team.
rdf-sf.org

San Mateo (Amateur) Radio Club – SMRC

The San Mateo Radio Club has served the Amateur Radio community on the San Francisco peninsula since 1946. The club promotes the exchange of knowledge among members at monthly meetings, serves the local community with emergency communication, and helps newcomers get on the air. Meetings cover a wide range of radio related topics such as DX (long distance communication), digital radio, new technologies, equipment reviews, competitions (contests), emergency protocols, remote region expedition communications (DXpeditions), and much more. The club’s goal is to improve its member’s technical and operating capabilities and to foster fellowship.

Join us for the San Mateo Radio Club 2-meter Net every Tuesday and Thursday evening at 19:00 PT on the N6ZX repeater:
• Output: 145.370 MHz, Minus offset of 600 KHz
• Tone CTCSS (PL): 107.2 Hz
Our thanks to the Kings Mountain Amateur Radio Club for allowing us to use their repeater for our weekly NET.

Club site
San Mateo Radio Club - W6UQ (google.com)
Club MeetUp
San Mateo (Amateur) Radio Club - SMRC | Meetup

Santa Clara County Amateur Radio Association

SCCARA was formed as a general interest amateur radio club in 1921 and became a non-profit corporation in 1947.
SCCARA is an affiliate of the American Radio Relay League
Welcome to S.C.C.A.R.A. Home Page

South Bay Amateur Radio Association

South Bay Amateur Radio Association (SBARA), was formed in 1976 to cater to the amateur radio communities in the Fremont, Newark and Union City in the East Bay.
The club welcomes people of all ages interested in Amateur Radio and helps them become licensed operators to enjoy the hobby first hand. The club conducts regular monthly meetings, and invites a guest speaker to give a talk and discuss interesting projects. Every year SBARA participates in the ARRL Field Day, inviting everyone to join in the fun. Let us help you discover and enjoy the Radio Sport !

SBARA South Bay Amateur Radio Association, KU6S

South Bay Hams

!!WE ARE REACTIVING THIS CLUB STATION !! AS OF 1/31/2022

NET TUESDAY NIGHT -- 5 PM --444.800Mhz + Offset + PL 179.9Mhz

Sunnyvale Repeater!! WA6GEL--- Monument Peak---2546 FEET Red Carpet Radio Club Practice For Net Control Operators--- And Discuss Events Of The Week ------We Will Also Plan For Future Events---etc!! For More Info Call--keith/k6zji--

650-880-5174

W6SBH - Callsign Lookup by QRZ Ham Radio

West Valley Amateur Radio Association

WVARA meetings are on the second Wednesday of each month except July, August, and December. Our meetings start at 7:00 pm.
Visitors and guests are welcome to attend the meetings, and pre-meeting gatherings!
We meet at the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross, at 2731 North 1st Street in San Jose.
Pre-meeting Unoffical Gatherings: For Location and time, please contact Jim K6EI using the email address on his QRZ.com page.
WVARA Monthly Meetings - WVARA HOME

Service Organizations

Ham Radio operators who wish to serve their communities are a strong presence in Santa Clara County.  Whether providing critical communications links in a disaster, or supporting local events, training and practice are critical. 

Santa Clara County

In Santa Clara County,  the Santa Clara County ARES/RACES group is the central hub for providing training, and running drills and exercises to keep our skills sharp and ready to use.  All hams should register with the County site to avail themselves of the free training, and the excellent reference information on the site.
Santa Clara County ARES/RACES

City Groups

Beneath the County organization, individual cities have their own groups.

Cupertino Amateur Radio Emergency Service (CARES)

Gilroy - Garlic Valley Amateur Radio Club (GVARC)

Loma Prieta Amateur Radio Club (LPARC)

Los Altos Amateur Radio Emergency Service - LAARES

Los Gatos / Monte Sereno ARES/RACES (LGMS-ARES/RACES)

Milpitas ARES/RACES (MARES)

Mountain View ARES/RACES

NASA/Ames

San Jose RACES  

City of Santa Clara ARES

Saratoga Amateur Radio Association (SARA)

Sunnyvale Amateur Radio Emergency Services (SARES)

Mechatronics Engineering - HAM Radio - Robot Club Project: <Needs A Team>

Fox Hunt Transmitter - Create a Fox Hunt Transmitter for hunting on SVCTE campus.  This Lesson / Lab is to build and then deploy a Fox Hunt transmitter as a class hunt activity.

• Lesson/Lab 1 - Intro to HAM Radio Fox Hunts

• Lesson/Lab 2 - How Build a Fox Hunt Transmitter/Beacon

• Lesson/Lab 3 - How To Hunt for a transmitter

• Teachers: Fox Hunt Activity In A Bin

Resources:

• Instructables: HAM Radio Foxhunt Transmitter for CW or Morse Code or Voice Transmitting

  • HAM Radio Fox Hunt Transmitter for CW or Voice transmission

• Foxhunt Transmitter Build #2 - Arduino + Relay <-- YouTube

• Homebrew Foxhunt Transmitter - Cheap and Easy <-- 

Mechatronics Engineering - HAM Radio - Class Old Fire Science Radios: <Needs A Team>

We have a bunch of Old Fire Science Radios, and I want to rig them to be remotely trigger/controlled Transmitters and Receivers

• Lesson/Lab 1 - Intro to Regular Hand Held Public Channel Radios:  

• Lesson/Lab 2 - How Radios Work

• Lesson/Lab 3 - How to Remotely Transmit with Arduino/Raspberry Pi

• Lesson/Lab 4 - How to Receive and decode some DTMF

• Lesson/Lab 5 - How to Receive and decode some Other Code, like Morse

• Lesson/Lab 6 - How to Receive and decode some type of Voice

Mechatronics Engineering - HAM Radio - Lessons,  Lectures, Labs:

• Lesson/Lab 1 - Intro to HAM Radio

• Lesson/Lab 2 - How Radios Work

• Lesson/Lab 3 - Technician License

• Lesson/Lab 4 - 

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Teachers - Unit, Module and Lesson Plans

Stuff

• AREDN - Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network