What use is an F-call? - Morse Edition

Getting started in Amateur Radio using an Australian Foundation License

What use is an F-call?

Starting in the wonderful hobby of Amateur or HAM Radio can be daunting. Using low power with little experience is challenging but can be very rewarding. Every week I look at a different aspect of the hobby, how you as a beginner might fit in and get the very best from the 1000 hobbies that Amateur Radio represents. Note that this podcast continues as "Foundations of Amateur Radio".

Onno (VK6FLAB)

Episodes - Morse Edition

000
Welcome
01
Your F-call can do more than you think.
02
This is step 1 of the hobby
03
Be Brave
04
Buying your Kit
05
7130dx net and phonetics
06
Welcome to the hobby.
07
This is a community
08
Real License
09
What to buy and how much to spend?
10
Practice makes Perfect
11
Education of your community
12
The nature of this hobby
13
Participation is a Promise made
14
Repeating History
15
Contests
16
Share your Hobby Around
17
There is room for experimentation in this hobby.
18
You have a license, now what?
19
Ask around, QRP is not futile
20
How did you get into Amateur Radio?
21
Antennas
22
Encourage F-calls
23
Whom have you inspired lately?
24
Same Old Story
25
Setup Remote once in a While
26
The spark of curiosity.
27
Public Relations
28
Faith and Generosity
29
Being Inventive
30
What have you shared lately?
31
Experience
32
More Power
33
Tuning your tranceiver 1950's style
34
Tolerance
35
Propagation and Solar Flux
36
What do you want to do with your radio?
37
Troubleshooting
38
CW Pileup
39
Operating Envelope Surprise
40
Don't re-invent the wheel, ask an Amateur
41
QSL cards in 2 minutes
42
Foundation License DXCC
43
Anyone can contribute.
44
Crimping and Soldering
45
Go outside "your" band once in a while.
46
How well do you know your radio really?
47
What does Amateur Radio mean for you?
48
What is the DXCC
49
Thinking about hand helds for travel.
50
If you plan to fail, you will.
51
Single Points of Failure
52
Talk about your projects.
53
How to get a license.
54
User your radio in different environments to learn.
55
Share your single triumps too.
56
You're encouraged to experiment.
57
Ask your friends how to start.
58
Morse is a useful skill
59
Looking for a lunchtime QSO.
60
Clubs and Associations
61
Echolink for when you don't have a radio.
62
Experimentation
63
Talking does not have to be terrifying
64
Find the spark that interests you.
65
Where are all the f-calls?
66
First Contact
67
Cavities
68
There will always be those who think of it as a lowly F-call.
69
Amateur Radio is about Experimentation AND Learning
70
Regulated freedom
71
Magnetic Loop Antennas
72
Propagation, www.ips.gov.au
73
What does learning really mean?
74
AR, an amazing community.
75
websdr.org
76
Cleaning up your shack
77
Turn up and start helping...
78
The Internet Treasure Trove
79
Go and find your community!
80
What have I been doing about my DXCC?
81
What's in a name?
82
Reflect on your time in Amateur Radio.
83
Becoming a builder or inventor creeps up on you.
84
Storage for your Precious.
85
DC to Daylight
86
Build your own community.
87
Amateur Radio Language
88
Different License Types
89
The license doesn't always match the skill
90
You don't need a license to get started.
91
Hook up with the QRP community.
92
A crappy antenna is better than no antenna at all!
93
Becoming a builder or inventor creeps up on you.
94
Making Amateur Radio visible to the Public.
95
Finding HF noise in your QTH
96
Think about the possibilities of your F-call.
97
Antenna, Antenna, Antenna
98
Try another station once in a while.
99
Your callsign is your identity.
100
This is your hobby!
101
Get familiar with Radio!
102
Where are the F-calls at the conference?
103
Why do you hold the License that you do?
104
AR Blows me away every day!
105
Get off your Alpha Romeo Sierra Echo
106
Trolls and what to do...
107
Each contact is different!
108
If you're in a hurry you make mistakes
109
Encourage rather than Berate an F-call!
110
Standards and Guidelines for Communication Sites - everything you want to know about grounding.
111
Amateur Radio, a wide range of topics from all walks of life.
112
Succession Planning
113
Contesting is not just on-air.
114
We are in the communications game...
115
Wire for bulding antennas.
116
Make an antenna at different sizes
117
VOACAP lesson
118
DX Cluster
119
Consider the QRP community
120
Mechanics of Contesting
121
5 Watts, what a blast!
122
Share the Fun in the wider community
123
QSL - Online Logging
124
ClubLog.org
125
Don't be a doofus, be safe.
126
Silliness is everywhere...
127
The general public knows nothing about Amateur Radio...
128
Making HF contacts...
129
Making HF contacts...
130
Making HF contacts...
131
Making HF contacts...
132
Making HF contacts...
133
What is listening 10-up?
134
Bullies have no place in Amateur Radio
135
F-calls and their restrictions.
136
F-calls and computers...
137
Curiosity if a great thing!
138
Special Event Stations
139
Be Curious!
140
Talk to your fellow amateurs, build a choke.
141
As you get more experienced, you'll transmit less...
142
If you don't try, you're guaranteed to fail!
143
Contesting, a simulator of harsh conditions.
144
Amateur Radio is Everywhere
145
Two nets to get started on air.
146
Wear your callsign with pride!
147
Complacency in your shack.
148
The bands change all the time...
149
The simple S-unit
150
Amateur Radio evolution is dependent on your imagination, not your license.
151
17 May - ITU day
152
The QSL system
153
The Maidenhead Locator system
154
dB, dBi, dBd
155
The Grey Line
156
Using Commercial Names on Air
157
Contesting, it's for you!
158
No more bullies
159
Clubs and F-calls?
160
Looking at mobile antennas for HF.
161
dB and dBm
162
How to do a contest?
163
How much do you gain from more power?
164
Learn from your mistakes and share them...
165
Newness should not be a barrier to participation
166
There are more than just Amateurs Listening...
167
It's not about sitting in a shack talking on the radio...
168
QRP is everywhere
169
Everything Changes All The Time ... pay attention
170
Everyday Terms, think about them sometimes
171
Tuning mobile antennas...
172
Small Changes can have a Big Effect
173
The QSL card is not dead!
174
Learning from listening...
175
Share your experiences...
176
Raspberry Pi SDR
177
What is your level of preparedness?
178
Programming repeaters.
179
We need mentors!
180
The Gray Line changes through the year!
181
QRM and morons
182
Remember to stop fiddling every now and then...
183
Which way is the Grey Line?
184
The LCD is a living document.
185
How do nets work?
186
WIA Awards System
187
Digital Voice in Amateur Radio is broken...
188
Lightning, not just the radio...
189
More on lightning and bonding.
190
Self policing license conditions
191
A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
192
A rotator on 4 wheels...
193
Share your radio skills with non-amateurs
194
CODEC2 - 13dB gain, what does it mean?
195
Planning for operating portable
196
How do you get gain if you don't change power?
197
Your local repeater is like magic...
198
Super Check Partial
199
Learn from every outing!
200
The Community Spirit of Amateur Radio
201
How to roll up coax and rope?
202
Stop and enjoy the electrons along the way...
203
Stop whining and get with the program...
204
Retaining two letter callsigns is rubbish.
205
OQRS
206
L.A.S. - Lead Arse Syndrome
999
Welcome