RTTY Tutorial

This document was originally posted by K4WW on rttyinfo.net but this domain has expired since some months at time writing. I’ve archived a copy that I believe could be usefull for beginners.
This is …

A Simple Telegraph Key
by Arthur R. Nilson, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1942

A professional looking radio key can be made by the beginner or experimenter at a cost of a few cents for parts. This key is …

During last years, waiting to obtain my licence I’ve spent a lot of my “radio-times” listening to broadcast stations and also trying to intercept unknown and strange signals. Monitoring “extra” bands for unknown signals, …

HamGrids will allow you to perform calculations with the popular Maidenhead Grid Square system. This grid system is used worldwide by amateur radio operators for many aspects of ham radio. Currently in version …

Yet another interesting table I’ve recetly found on the net and tha I believe it could be usefull expecially to travellers. The followind table represents, the ham radio band plans for the 3 IARU regions.

This is an interesting quagi antenna plan.
Total Boom Lenght is 3 m.

Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Subject: Grounding is key to good reception, was: Experience w/NRD-535
In your recent post you advised that coax should be grounded at two sites, first at the antenna and then just before entering the house. …

The plan for PSK31 activity has always been (since PSK31 started) to concentrate activity starting from the bottom edge of the IARU RTTY bandplan, expanding upwards as activity increased. The exception is in the 10mts …