Category: Radio Operations
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Field Day: Amateur Radio Under the Open Sky — How to Plan a Successful Participation
When the days grow longer and the weather beckons us outdoors, many radio amateurs feel the excitement building: Field Day is approaching! Whether on an alpine meadow in the Austrian Alps, atop a hill overlooking…
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EME – Earth-Moon-Earth: Moonbounce on 2 m and 70 cm
EME – Earth-Moon-Earth: When the Moon Becomes a Reflector Imagine sending a radio signal from Earth to the Moon and receiving the echo back – a round-trip distance of approximately 768,000 kilometers. This is exactly…
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DXCC, WAZ, WPX: The Major Amateur Radio Awards Explained
Introduction: The Fever for the Certificate You just made your first DX QSO on 20 meters — Japan, with only 100 watts and a wire in the garden. Your heart is still pounding. You checked…
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Contests for Beginners: Why You Should Enter at Least One Contest
Introduction You’re sitting in the shack, turning the VFO, and suddenly on 14 MHz you hear a tangle of callsigns, lightning-fast exchanges, and cryptic numbers. “CQ Contest, CQ Contest, OE2S, Oscar Echo Two Sierra.” Then…
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QBlitz – Q-group quick trainer for radio amateurs
QBlitz is here! Our new Q-group quick trainer helps you learn the most important Q codes for amateur radio testing and daily radio operations – interactively, playfully and with a scientifically based learning method. What…
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BandBlick – IARU Region 1 band plan
BandBlick – IARU Region 1 Bandplan BandBlick is an interactive amateur radio band plan visualizer for IARU Region 1. The tool offers a clear representation of all amateur radio bands with their segments and types…
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QSO Buddy: Practice radio conversations interactively
You finally want to speak confidently into the microphone? QSO Buddy is your interactive trainer for amateur radio conversations (QSOs). Learn step by step how a typical radio conversation works – from the CQ call…
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First Contact – Learn shortwave propagation through experimentation!
You probably know this: You sit in front of the rig, turn the VFO and ask yourself – why is there nothing going on at 20m while the place is full at 40m? Or why…
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What is an SDR? An overview for radio enthusiasts
Software instead of hardware: The SDR principle A Software-Defined Radio (SDR) is a radio receiver in which a large part of the classic hardware is replaced by software. Instead of requiring separate devices for each…
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How far can I really get? Easily create RF propagation maps yourself
Planning radio coverage made easy – with Radio Mobile Online If you want to know how far your signal really reaches, Radio Mobile Online is a really powerful tool. The tool was developed specifically for…
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🏕️ Wavelog – the online logbook for portable radio operation
A flexible logbook that can be accessed at any time is particularly important for portable radio operations (e.g. POTA, SOTA, field days).With Wavelog, a modern, web-based amateur radio logbook is now available on oeradio.at, which…
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Setting up MSI2500 SDR (RSP1 Clone) on Ubuntu – step-by-step instructions
This guide shows how to get an MSI2500 based SDR receiver (like RSP1 Clones) running on Ubuntu Linux with GQRX. The instructions are also suitable for beginners without much Linux experience. What is the MSI2500?…
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Making SDR Accessible Worldwide: A Radio Amateur’s Guide to Cloudflare Tunnels
Or: How I learned to forget port forwarding and love the cloud 🙂 Introduction Dear radio amateurs! Tired of struggling with your router’s port forwarding settings? Annoyed by DynDNS services that give up at the…
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MeshCom: Your entry into a decentralized radio mesh network for radio amateurs
What is MeshCom? – a simple overview MeshCom is an open source project from the Institute of Citizen Science for Space & Wireless Communication (ICSSW), which aims to realize text-based communication via LoRa modules in…
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📱 Use HAMSIP with the iPhone – step by step for beginners
You want to make calls with your iPhone via HAMSIP? Here we will show you how to set up everything – from the VPN connection to the Hamnet to the finished telephony with a SIP…
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Setting up HAMSIP telephony on the PC – step-by-step
This is a follow-up to “HAMSIP Telephony: Our New Toy” and describes how to set up HAMSIP completely on a Windows PC, without a SIP phone and additional network hardware. 1. Request Hamnet access 2.…
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HAMSIP telephony – Our new toy
Some time ago we attended a HAMNET workshop in Vienna and since then we have been playing around with the Internet for radio amateurs. A separate number range on the Internet, starting with 44.xxx.xxx.xxx, is…
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Radio and skiing at the end of the world
The story started with our visits to the radio camp in Döbriach on Lake Millstättersee. The idea was actually to get our son interested in radio engineering. But it infected me with the radio virus.…
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2m SSB Round – Every Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. LT (UTC+1): A highlight thanks to Raimund OE8ANK
Dear radio friends, Thanks to a great idea from Raimund OE8ANK, there is now a new way to liven up the 2m bands and conduct exciting QSOs: the SSB round on 2m. This takes place…
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How POTA fever caught us
Last year, after POTA fever caught me and my XYL Sandra, OE4SLC, I attempted my first activation right near our QTH. Equipped with the JPC-12 antenna and the IC-705 with 10W power, we went out…
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Martin OE8KKK – The veteran of the Carinthian QRGs
There are names that are not only well known in amateur radio, but are almost legendary. One of them is undoubtedly Martin, “da Tino” OE8KKK, a man whose reputation resonates far beyond the borders of…
