Pennsylvania
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Amateur (Ham) Radio




If you are not already a licensed Amateur (Ham) Radio Operater, please consider getting your license. Passing the entry level exam is easier than ever and there is NO Morse Code to learn. The test consists of 35 questions taken from a 384 question pool. Radio Shack sells the Gordon West book that contains all of the questions and answers for the test and the book does a nice job at explaining each correct answer.

With a minimum investment of $150 or so, you will be amazed at what you can do. With a hand held 2 meter radio and a good antenna, you can become a valued participant in the emergency communications community.

Please check out my Basic Starting Guide, "Getting Started in Amateur (HAM) Radio (Easily and inexpensively)". And if I can be of any help, please drop me a line:

HF (High Frequency) Amateur Radio



Pennsylvania Statewide and Regional
HF Emergency Communications Page


  • Pennsylvania Statewide and Regional HF Emergency Communications Frequencies:
    http://www.pa-sitrep.com/pahf.htm#PAHFEFREQS

  • Pennsylvania Statewide and Regional Emergency Communications HF Nets:
    http://www.pa-sitrep.com/pahf.htm#PAHFNETS

    • Emergency Communications HF Nets are regularly scheduled drills which serve as practice and preparation for actual communications emergencies. Emergency Communications Nets also serve the purpose of verification that all the participants of the net have properly functioning radio equipment.

  • Pennsylvania Statewide and Regional HF Traffic Nets:
    http://www.pa-sitrep.com/pahf.htm#PAHFTRAFFICNETS

    • (For those who may not be familiar, "Traffic" refers to message handling.)

    Traffic Nets are regularly scheduled nets for the purpose of handling and delivering messages via Ham Radio. Proper and accurate message handling is a very important aspect of Emergency Communcations. NTS and ARRL are the organizations that sets the standards and protocols for message handling proceedures. Here is a link to the ARRL web site section on NTS: http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/pscm/sec2-ch1.html


    2 Meter Amateur Radio



    Here is the PA-SitRep Western PA 2 Meter Ham Radio Page

    The Westen PA 2 Meter PA-SitRep page contains the following:

    Amateur Radio LINKS:
    http://www.pa-sitrep.com/links.htm




    I am KB3FXI - FCC Licensed, Extra Class Amateur Radio Operator.

    Thanks very much for visiting the Amateur (Ham) Radio section of PA-SitRep.com. Please drop me a line with any suggestions or recommendations:

    If you're a properly licensed Amateur Radio Operator and you'd like to try to reach me on any general class portions of the Amateur Radio bands, follow the directions here and if I'm available, I'll jump on and give you a call:
    http://www.pa-sitrep.com/ham.htm#contact

    Here's a great tool for calling up Pennsylvania related Amateur Radio Emergency Nets:
    http://www.pa-sitrep.com/ham.htm#netcallup

    I am continually working on keeping the Pennsylvania statewide information on this site, organized by county, as up to date as possible, especially the data on the most prominent Amateur Radio repeaters that would be used for emergency communications.

    If you can help, or have corrections or information updates, please drop me a line:

    -Dave Kleber KB3FXI

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