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Handiham audio for 13 March 2010This page is updated regularly through the week. The remote base is in service after antenna repairs this weekend. There is a new Extra Class audio lecture on Spread Spectrum & error correction New! CQ audio digest for March 2010 for our blind members. Worldradio March 2010 digest read by Bob Zeida, N1BLF. The March 2010 QST audio digest for our blind members has been posted. The Doctor is In column from March 2010 QST for our blind members, read by Ken Padgitt. The first release of the Technician question pool effective July 1 2010 is now on line as modified by George LaValle, N0SBU. It is modified to show only the correct answers. Any or our student members who are planning to take the Technician exam after June 30, 2010 should study from the new question pool. This is also a wake-up call for those of you who have not been studying regularly - the Technician test and all the study materials change on July 1, so get busy if you want to pass using the old question pool! Did you miss the 4-page print edition of the year-end Handiham World ? You can get it in PDF or as an MP3 download.
Download a PDF: Our phones are in service. If you call us and get voice mail, please leave your number with area code and the best time to call you back. Email anytime, weekends, nights, holidays: patt@couragecenter.org. This page contains important links to your online audio
lectures. This week there are lectures and new audio for our students,
including magazine digest audio. These lectures are for the use of
Handiham members only. If you are not a member, please join us by calling
1-763-520-0512 or emailing Membership is only $10 per
year and is open to people with disabilities who are
interested in learning ham radio. If you are joining one of these classes that
is already underway, be sure to start at the beginning with the first lecture of
the series. You can always click the "up" link to find the entire
list.
Easy navigation links Ken, KB3LLA, invites you to join the Handiham Radio Club Technician Class beginner course DAISY book reading software AMIS. We encourage you to take some practice exams on the AA9PW website, which you will find at: Today's Technician lecture is at: The Technician pool is online:
http://www.handiham.org/local/blind/technician.htm
Some of you have asked for a link to the page containing
all the Technician Lecture links:
http://www.handiham.org/local/blind/technician1.htm
We are continuing the General lecture series. An error was found in our "only right answers pool", in question G5B04. The correct answer is 2.4 watts. The next lecture is here: The main General links page is here, in case you wish to
review:
http://www.handiham.org/local/blind/general1.htm
Here are the recent lecture links, starting with the latest lecture: New Extra lecture 61 on digital modes. Extra Lecture 60 on digital codes & protocols. Extra lecture 59 on noise reduction and interference. Extra lecture 58 on pulse modulation & multiplexing. Extra lecture 57 on deviation ratio and modulation index. Extra lecture 56 on spectrum analyzers. Extra lecture 55 on the oscilloscope. Extra lecture 54 on test instruments. Extra Class lecture 53 on polarization and the difference between electrical and magnetic fields. Extra Class lecture 52 on PEP, or Peak Envelope Power and calculating power of a modulated signal. Extra Class lecture 51 on AC measurements, including converting RMS to peak Extra Class lecture 50 on AC waveforms Extra Class lecture 49 on power supplies and regulators Extra Class lecture 48 on impedance matching Extra Class lecture 47 on active filters Extra Class lecture 46 on passive filters, including crystal filters. Extra Class lecture 45 on PLL and DDS, two methods of frequency synthesis. Extra Class
lecture 44 on demodulation Here is the correct link to lecture 42 on mixers. The new Extra pools:
http://www.handiham.org/manuals/Pools/extra/
The main Extra lecture menu page is here:
http://www.handiham.org/local/blind/extra_class.htm
Note when using the main Extra lecture menu page that
the "lectures pending" pages are just placeholders for future lectures
and thus do not link to any audio until I make the lecture and add it to the
regular menu in sequential order.
The Extra Pool Handiham DAISY book:
1. You will need eClipseWater, so here is the link to
the website:
http://www.eclipsereader.com/eClipseWater/index.htm
2. You will need a DAISY book reader. If you want to
read a DAISY book on your computer, you can use an open source free program like
AMIS, which is pronounced "ah-mee". You can find it at:
3. Here is the link to the new Handiham Extra Class pool
DAISY book. Remember that you need eClipseWater to reconstruct the book onto
your hard drive before putting it in your DAISY player. Also, this option is for
those who wish to boldly go where almost no person has gone before, to
experiment, learn and have fun with new technology. Which means that I won't
give you tech support on all this stuff, HI, HI. Anyway, here is the link to the
file: http://www.handiham.org/local/daisy/extra_class/extra_pool/Extra_3_P.DNA
If you get this to work for you, I'd like to hear from
you. We are in the beta testing phase of DAISY book production.
Operating Skills:
MP3 download: How to get help with your radio problems, an article by WA0TDA, read by N1BLF. ARRL VE Manual 9th Edition: You have two choices!
The Handiham World newsletter from 30 years ago, Summer 1979. In antennas: Ground-mounting that first vertical antenna. Want to learn more about your TH-F6A? Here is our Manuals link page! Take the FEMA incident command introduction course. An emergency drill will involve the use of the Incident Command System. We should briefly review this. Folks could take IS-100 on the FEMA-Emergency Management Institute website: http://emilms.fema.gov/IS100A/index.htm Email me when you have taken and passed the
course:
Remote Base Basics, including download and setting up:
Don't forget to check out the new magazine digests, which include QST, CQ, & Worldradio. Volunteer reader Ken Padgitt, W9MJY, reads the "Doctor is in" column from March 2010 QST for our blind members: Play a streaming file of the Doctor
is in: Download the MP3 file of the Doctor
is in: Here is the March 2010 QST digest:
http://www.handiham.org/local/blind/qst.htm
Here is the March 2010 Worldradio digest:
http://www.handiham.org/local/blind/worldradio.htm
Here is the March 2010 CQ
digest:
http://www.handiham.org/local/blind/cq.htm
Here is the Winter
2009-2010 QCWA Digest:
http://www.handiham.org/local/blind/qcwa_journal.htm
Here is the remote base
information: http://www.handiham.org/local/blind/remote_base.htm
The weekly e-letter in audio is here: Streaming MP3:
http://www.handiham.org/audio/handiham.m3u
Download the e-letter via accessible MP3:
http://www.handiham.org/audio/handiham.mp3
One of our members requested a link to Amateur Radio
NEWSLINE audio. This is a link to FTP the file to your computer:
ftp://ftp.arnewsline.org/quincy/News/news.mp3
Join the Handiham Radio Club! You are already a Handiham member, so why not join our club, too? Any Handiham member wishing to join the Courage Handiham System Amateur Radio Club please send me an E-mail with your name and call. Also, please let me know whether or not you are an ARRL member. ARRL membership is not required for club membership. All Handiham members are entitled to club membership by virtue of being a Handiham member. Just another benefit of joining Handihams. So, join handihams, if you haven’t already, and join the club! 73, Ken Kenneth Silberman, KB3LLA, President Courage Handiham
System Amateur Radio Club Technical
support: If a file will not play and you do not find the solution on the
Technical Support Page, please let
me know. My direct email address is
73 and have a GREAT weekend!
Regards,
Patrick Tice, WA0TDA, Manager Courage HANDI-HAM System
3915 Golden Valley Road Golden Valley, MN 55422
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