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Informational Programs Cross-band repeaters Setting up a non-profit club Weather Prep (general, radio, EMP, other) Morse code / CW History In the news Podcasts and other audio The future and relevance Outdated educational Other (general radio, non-radio, personal) Noji articles (informative, educational, in action, DIY)

Informational

Ham trivia (by Noji)
Why Baofeng-haters dislike Baofeng HTs on YouTube™ (11:12)
Ethics and Operating Procedures for the Radio Amateur (PDF by the IARU, 06-2010)

Programs

Pairing young operators with big guns (ARRL, 03-30-2019 to 03-31-2019)

Cross-band repeaters

About cross-band repeaters (by Noji)
How to set up Baofengs as a cross-band repeater (by Miklor)
Utah cross-band repeater policy (by the Utah VHF Society)
Legal setup of crossband repeaters (ARRL - click How can I legally make my VHF/UHF station into a crossband repeater?)

Setting up a non-profit (amateur radio) club

Creating an amateur radio club (must submit a 605-C form)
Includes the designation of the club trustee, whose responsibilities might include the following:
• Keep his / her own license current
• Keep the club license and mailing address current
• Maintain good standing with the club
• Apply for a club vanity call sign, as directed by the club leadership
• Provide the FCC with club station information, upon request
• Designate control operator(s) for club station(s) during each club event
• Specify which (personal, club, special event) call sign to use for each club event
Utah Nonprofit Articles of Incorporation (fillable PDF and instructions)
Apply for an EIN
• Select View Additional types
• Select Social or Savings Club
• Enter your name and SSN
• Select I am a responsible and duly authorized officer or member
• Fill in the address, phone, club name
• Select No for motor vehicle, gambling, Form 720, alcohol, and employees
• What does your business do? Select Other, and then Organization
• Select Social or civic, then enter Amateur Radio Club
• Select Receive letter online
• Click Submit
Applying for 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Status (main IRS website starting point)
UVARC used IRS form 1023-EZ and declared itself as an NTEE N50 (scientific and educational) organization to apply
• Complete the Eligibility Worksheet at the end of the Form 2013-EZ instructions
• Register for a company payment account
501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Status Responsibilities (PDF: classifications, documents, filing, etc., must read)
Registering a Utah business
Creating a Utah nonprofit corporation
How to receipt a cash or in-kind donation
Sample cash donation receipt
Sample in-kind donation receipt
Becoming an ARRL Affiliated Club
Obtaining ARRL Club Liability Insurance
Request an ARRL Club Insurance Add-on (secondary for a hosting location)
Club Insurance FAQ
Obtaining ARRL Equipment Insurance

Charitable solicitations

Rules for becoming a Utah charity (must register if you want to ask people for money)
Utah Charitable Organization Registration (application or renewal)
Colorado Charitable Organization Permit (renewal $10 due May 15 annually)

When filing the taxes

Fill out a Utah Statement of Functional Expenses
Note: the State of Utah does not require annual filings by non-profit corporations, but it's good to publish the Statement of Functional Expenses and an Annual Ledger for transparency


If your club income was less than $50,000

Fill out a Form 990-N and Requirements for using Form 990-N
• Click MANAGE E-POSTCARD PROFILE
• Click CREATE NEW FILING
• Select your EIN, then click CONTINUE
• Answer the questions, then click CONTINUE
• Answer the questions, then click SUBMIT FILING
• In the e-Postcard Confirmation Warning! window, click OK
• Click to Print a copy for your records

If your club income was $50,000 or more

Fill out a Form 990-EZ [PDF] and Instructions for Form 990-EZ [PDF]
Download the blank form, then fill it out locally
Fill out a Schedule A for Form 990-EZ [PDF] and Instructions for Schedule A [PDF]
Download the blank form, then fill it out locally (Parts I and III)
Your org is a 509(a)(2) if the IRS states it on your acceptance letter
Fill out a Schedule O for Form 990-EZ [PDF] (instructions on the last page)

Weather

Utah VORTEX / Doppler
Utah weather alerts
Windy.com
Lightning Maps
Real-time conditions on Lake Mountain by mesh

Prep

General

World Gone Silent

Radio

REACT (Radio Emergency Associated Communication Teams)

EMP

EMP
EMPs Don't Work Like That (The Havok Journal)
The World Won't End (The National Interest)

Other

Morse code

No longer required for amateur radio exams, but good to know, and necessary for CW transmissions Learn Morse Code Online (LCWO) Morse Code IO (fun way to learn code) CW Academy (CWops) IZ2UUF (popular smartphone app)
CW for the beginner ham (YouTube™ 10:22) Old military training video (YouTube™ 18:34) Your Novice Accent - And What To Do About It (with footnotes by Gordon Smith, K7HFV) See the original text (by Keith Williams, W6DTY, SK, in QST, Nov 1956) Good CW practice (Calling CQ by John Shannon, K3WWP) 20 WPM common words (YouTube™ 6:52) Rhythm of the Code (YouTube™ 2:52)

History

Radio itself

History of ham radio (Wiki)
History of ham radio (ARRL)
History of the Phonetic Alphabet (NATO)

Pioneers

Samuel Morse (History Channel)
Samuel Morse invented telegraphy (demonstrated it on 01-06-1838)
Mary Loomis (by W3YA)
Mary was one of the very few women radio engineers in the 1920s, and even started her own school in Washington, DC, to teach radio operation
She was the author of the 1000-page textbook, Radio Theory and Operating for the Radio Student and Practical Operator
Kathleen Parkin (Wiki)
Kathleen got licensed at 15 years old in 1916, and made much of her own radio equipment
Irving Vermilya, the First Ham (by Noji)
Irving met Marconi at a lecture for scientists, built a receiver, then a transmitter, and was the first to get licensed when the government first set up licensing, all at age 11

Ham radio in the news

Ham Radio Operator Reports Crash in Logan Canyon (Cache Valley Daily, 05-30-2020) [operators were KE7IRO and AD7VF]
Ham Radio Operators Help Out in Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria (CNN, 09-27-2017)
Ham Radio Operators Help Out in Davis County cleanup (KSL, 09-13-2020)

Podcasts and other audio and video

ARRL Audio News
100 Watts and a Wire
Stitcher : This Week in Amateur Radio
Amateur Radio Newsline
No-nonsense Amateur Radio Podcast
Ham Radio Now
Ham Radio 360
The Practical Amateur Radio Podcast
Stitcher : Ham Nation
Ham Radio Crash Course
Ham Radio Workbench
QSO Today
DitDit.fm (Morse code and CW operators)

The future and relevance of ham radio

Why are amateurs no longer in the forefront? (Third Industrial Revolution: technology left us behind) (03-20-2020 Kamal Singh, MØIOV) [Youtube video 46:02]
Uncertain Future of Ham Radio (IEEE Spectrum, 07-10-2020)
What's wrong with amateur radio (open thoughts by Razvan, 07-2020)
One man's thoughts on the future of amateur radio (a bit bleak)
The Rebirth of HF (Paul Denisowski, KO4LZ)
Ham radio is doomed (Rob Braxman, YouTube™ 8:19)

Outdated but educational

Vacuum tubes

How vacuum tubes work (by Noji) About vacuum tubes (vacuum tubes 101) More about vacuum tubes (1998 article) The Edison Effect (fundamental principle behind the vacuum tube)

Smith chart

Introduction to The Smith Chart (Antenna-Theory.com)
The Smith Chart explained (YouTube™ 11:29)
Calculating the load impedance (YouTube™ 5:00)
Calculating the SWR (YouTube™ 3:21)


Smith Chart Basics series

Part 1 : Plotting the impedance (YouTube™ 7:35)
Part 2 : Finding the SWR (YouTube™ 6:41)

Other

Radio

Ham Trivia DXZone DX News (which DXpedition will be active where, etc.) Ham Universe eHam.net (many reviews are posted here) IRLP Nodes EchoLink Nodes APRS (Utah County) W1AW Operating Schedule Ham Radio Nation A copy of Noji's member certificate Morse Code Abbreviations (and on Wiki) HFLink.com and HFLink.net (HF EmComm / ALE) TechWholesale Guide to Ham Radio TAPR (Tucson Amateur Packet Radio) DMR Utah Ham Radio Secrets (by Claude Jollet VE2DPE)

Non-radio

Revolutionary nuclear battery — too good to be true? NS Energy New Atlas TNW (The Next Web) TechCrunch Popular Mechanics Wikipedia

Military

MARS use of 60-meter band during wildfire suppression (ARRL, 09-15-2020)
MARS club participation (no longer available)

Personal pages

AC6V Website (called the Mother of all Ham Radio Links) K3LP Website (another Mother of all Ham Radio Links, especially for DXpeditions) AE7Q Website (query tools) K0BG Website (another site with a wealth of info) K7UA Website (DXing and contesting) W3BE BE Informed Website (another site with a wealth of info) Dave Casler (another site with a wealth of info for the new ham) Jay's Ham Radio Links Clint's Pages (KA7OEI) John Jacobs, W7DBO Jeff's Repeater Maps (Utah Ham Radio Repeaters by N1SC) Jake Estepp, KD7VEA Ham Radio Maps, EI8IC (collection of maps for CQ zones, ITU Zones, ITU Regions, ARRL Sections, etc.) Rick Westerman, NJØIP / DJØIP OH8STN Antennas by N6LF (Rudy Severns) Ham Radio Secrets (by Claude Jollet VE2DPE)

Articles by Noji

Most of these are published in the club newsletter UVARC Shack, posted on uvarc.club


Informative

Taking your first ham radio steps
Ham radio best practices
Hobby or utility?
What channels you need in your radio
Are Chinese radios legal to use? (use them within your privileges freely)
Navigating the Baofeng menu
You get what you pay for...or not
Understanding HF radio knobs and buttons
Why you should consider joining the ARRL
The Utah VHF Society
Repeater systems
The Wilderness Protocol
Buyer be aware (what to watch out for when making equipment purchases)
How to set up a crossband repeater (XBR)
Call sign indicators (/7, /R, /M, etc.)
Is it alright to call CQ on a repeater?
Using alternate phonetics
The full ham experience
The Utah Band Plan
Avoiding the Geezer Complex
Role of the ERC
RACES
Setting up a remote station
Radio preparation prior to an emergency
What steps to take during an actual emergency
The disruptive mode of FT8
Be brief when it's your turn
How to call for help
The ham police
Getting involved with emergency communication
Getting into HF
Monitoring a nearby incident
Handheld accessories
Which coax to get
Facets of the craft
How to (not) irritate another ham
How to use a microphone
Importance of scanning
Working your VFO
Traffic
How to help an unlicensed inquirer
Lighten up
Contesting guide
Join a faith-based net
Get started with DXing
Are you an appliance operator?

Educational

How far a handheld can transmit
Ohm's Law
Basics of AM and FM
Understanding squelch
Understanding digital radio waves
SWR
How transistors work
How vacuum tubes work
Skywave propagation
How the Sunspot Cycle affects radio propagation
How to decipher the Conditions Banner
Understanding noise, noise sources, and how to eliminate or reduce noise
Radio football (Understanding the Fresnel Zone)
Understanding antenna resonance
Understanding antenna gain
The physics of radio communication
How to tune an antenna
Explaining the reception of out-of-band amateur signals
Baluns 101
Filter fundamentals
Repeater fundamentals
Repeater tone
Selecting your feed line
Why get a better antenna and coax
Tuners
Ground planes
Bandwidth
Intermodulation distortion
Spark-gap transmitters
Basic lightning protection
Solar power
How batteries work
Which HF antenna to get
How a Yagi antenna works
How to work a satellite
Protecting your finals
Getting started with DXing
NanoVNA SWR guide
NanoVNA coax length finder
tinySA spur finder
Using CHIRP

Amateurs in action

Paige Ishii (mountain stuck Jeep rescue, 05-05-2018)
Adam Cowie (mountain injury rescue, 09-12-2018)
Steve Fleischer (mountain helicopter rescue, 07-28-2018)
Brad Kirk (canyon ATV rescue)
Richard Heward (road conditions watchdog)
Impromptu fox hunt (12-07-2018)
Michael Preuss (mountain crash rescue, 08-03-2019)
Young Women to the Rescue (Washington / Oregon hurricane, 2007)
Two Nevada rescues (one in the back country and one on a lonely highway, 09-03-2020)
Chilean rescue (mid-air mishap, 07-09-2020)
Vermont mountain rescue (06-15-2020)
Colorado rescue (02-2019)

DIY

How to install the Pockrus J-pole (shopping list, tools, instructions)
How to install a PL-259 connector on coaxial cable (for RG-8X and LMR-400 sizes)
Dual-band rollup J-pole antenna
2-meter tape measure Yagi antenna
2-meter delta loop antenna
Simple 20-meter dipole antenna
20-meter rollup dipole antenna
20-meter fishing pole antenna
40-meter dipole antenna (plus 80 meters)
20-meter portable Yagi beam antenna
Dual-band parallel dipole antenna (40, 20 meters, the chopstick antenna)
G5RV antenna (80, 40, 20, 15 meters)
4-band fan dipole antenna (80, 40, 20, 10 meters)
20 / 40 meter trap dipole (40, 20 meters)
40-meter NVIS antenna (plus 80 meters)
OCF dipole antenna (80, 40, 20, 10 meters)
2-meter collinear antenna
6-meter copper J-pole antenna
6-meter vertical dipole antenna
160-meter short vertical antenna
Dual-band satellite Yagi antenna
80-10 end-fed half-wave antenna (80, 40, 20, 15, 10 meters)
1.25-meter folded dipole antenna
DDRR 2-meter antenna
Dual-band cookie sheet antenna (2 m, 70 cm)
AM crystal radio
Ladder line
4:1 current balun
49:1 unun
Coax continuity tester
Pneumatic antenna launcher