March 2018
Beginner
432 pages
11h 23m
English
Content preview from Ham Radio For Dummies, 3rd Edition
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Index
A
- A-1 Operator’s Club Award, 116
- AC6V, 134, 279
- access control tones, 138–139
- accidents, reporting, 174–175
- adapters, 331
- ad hoc network, 13
- ADIF (Amateur Data Interchange Format), 301
- Advanced class license, 67, 93
- A index, 357
- airplane scatter, 214
- alarm systems, 343
- algebra, online tutorials, 393
- Amateur Extra class license
- amateur licenses, 14–15
- Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF), 237–238
- Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES), 46, 167–168
- Amateur Radio Guide to Digital Mobile Radio, 153
- Amateur Radio Service, 14
- amateur service, 62–64
- amateur television, 242
- American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
- awards, 211
- benefits of joining, 46–47
- benefits to the hobby, 47–48
- benefits to the public, 48
- call sign search, 89
- defined, 45
- emergency communications, 48
- exam session, 78
- national and division conventions, 57
- Net Directory, 117
- online emergency communications training courses, 173
- RFI Information page, 342
- search engine for exam sessions, 73
- technical awareness and education, 48
- Technical Information Service, 134
- technical references, 48
- vanity call web page, 94
- as VEC organization, 47
- VHF/UHF Century Club, 215
- W1AW station, 47–48
- website, 45
- amplifiers
- AMSAT, 51, 239–240, 369
- AM signals, 108–109
- angles, 394–395
- antennas. See also feed lines; towers
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