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Wondering what to do with your new amateur radio license?   This email provides you with articles and advice from experienced hams to help you get active and on the air.

Digital Communication in an Analog World

Mother Nature isn’t a fan of wireless digital communication. According to her rules, all electromagnetic signals in nature, whether they are created by transceivers or star clusters, must be analog. If this is the case, how can wireless digital communication ever take place? Check out this article to find out how. READ THE ON THE AIR ARTICLE Antenna Gain When you concentrate electromagnetic radiation at a particular location, you effectively concentrate at least a portion of its power at that location as well. Light energy is a type of electromagnetic radiation; so is radio energy. In this article, find out how antennas can concentrate radio waves, just as a magnifying glass can concentrate light. READ THE ON THE AIR ARTICLE Discover the Excitement of FT8 One of the most popular operating modes in amateur radio doesn’t involve talking into a microphone or tapping on a Morse code key. Instead, it is one of ham radio’s many digital modes and offers extraordinary performance. Learn more about FT8 in this article. READ THE ON THE AIR ARTICLE ARRL On the Air — Episode 20 On this episode of the On the Air podcast, Oliver Dully, K6OLI, gives an introduction to Winlink, the worldwide radio messaging system that uses amateur-band radio that uses amateur-band radio frequencies to provide radio interconnection services. LISTEN TO THE ON THE AIR PODCAST Impedance in the Real World Radio operators encounter impedance specifications wherever signals run about. For insight into how impedance can affect your operating experiences in the real world, check out this article. READ THE ON THE AIR ARTICLE One Thousand FT8 Contacts in 14 Days “I’ve been extremely satisfied operating FT8, and it was a lot of fun making contacts with so many people across the world.” If you want to learn how to operate this exciting digital mode, check out this blog from Jeromy Alexander, AD8GN. READ THE BLOG Hamspeak CTCSS — Abbreviation for continuous tone-coded squelch system. Some repeaters use this series of subaudible tones to control access to the repeater. CTCSS tones are used to eliminate repeater-to-repeater interference.   On-Air Events November Sweepstakes — CW | November 5 – 7, 2022   EME — 50 to 1296 MHz Contest | November 12 – 13, 2022   November Sweepstakes — Phone | November 19 – 21, 2022 The third edition of Get On the Air with HF Digital, by Steve Ford, WB8IMY, includes everything you need to set up a station and get on the air using a variety of digital modes. Order online at arrl.org/shop.   Subscribe to our On the Air podcast | Join ARRL Follow us on social media   If you still have questions after viewing the On the Air resources, please email us at members@arrl.org.   This monthly email was developed to help new hams get on the air and involved with the hobby. Featuring content from On the Air magazine, along with newly produced articles and videos. About this Email: You are receiving this email because our records indicate you are new to ham radio or viewed a sample of our On the Air magazine. If you’d like to discontinue receiving emails from ARRL, please unsubscribe.

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