Radio amateurs are licensed individuals (they have to pass a technical and/or practical exam) who are allowed to experiment with radio on specific dedicated frequency bands

Every radio amateur (also often called "ham") has an international unique identification or callsign This callsign excists of a prefix (from which you can recognise the country from where the radio amateur is from), one or more numbers and a suffix

My callsign is SQ6MIP

Below you'll find a list of the most important techniques used by amateur radio operators:

MORSE or CW (Continious Wave) - Oldest technology for radio communication
PHONE - Most used mode. Voice modulated signals (FM, AM, SSB)
ATV - Amateur Television. Used on UHF and up
SSTV - Slow Scan Television. Used on HF bands
EME - Earth-Moon-Earth. Use the moon to reflect signals back to the earth
AMATEUR SATELLITES
RTTY, AMTOR, PSK32, Radio Telex - Digital mode
PACKET RADIO - Digital communication via amateur radio network nodes - e-mail, discussion groups, chat etc.
APRS - Automatic Position Reporting System. Uses packet radio to transmit and receive position information

Description of my own radio station

Transceivers :

All-mode Multi-band Transceiver Icom IC-706MKIIG
for all HF-bands, 6 m with 100 Watts output, and 2 m with 50 Watts output, and 70 cm with 35 Watts output,



144/440MHz FM Mobile Dual Bander Kenwood TM-G707E
2 m with 50 Watts output, and 70 cm with 35 Watts output,



144/440MHz FM Handy Dual Bander Kenwood TH-G71E
2 m with 6 Watts output, and 70 cm with 5,5 Watts output,

Antenna Tuner :
MFJ Versa Tuner II FMJ-941E for all HF-bands,


Antennas :
Inverted Vee antenna for 80m, 40m, 30m, 20m, 17m, 15m, 12m, 10m
Diamond A502HB 2-elements yagi for 6m,
Diamond 4 x A144S10 10-elements yagi for 2m,
Diamond A430S10 10-elements yagi for 70cm,
GP antenna for 2 m and 70 cm




Accessories :
Power Supply ZS-20; Antenna Rotor, Coaxial Switch CX-201A


Modes :
SSB, FM, RTTY, PSK31, SSTV, JT65, CW


Computer :
Notebook HP


Software :

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