Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering: Presentation On Ham Radio
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering: Presentation On Ham Radio
Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering: Presentation On Ham Radio
ENGINEERING
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You need to have a good antenna. Whether you buy a directional antenna
that sends out signals on a direct path or an omnidirectional antenatal that
sends out signals in all directions would depend on your budget.
Naturally, if you can afford it, there is no reason to go for an omnidirectional
antenna.
Ifyour ham radio is the mobile type installed in cars, there are very good
mobile antennas you could install to boost your signal while on the road.
Unfortunately, when it comes to antennas, people focus too much on the
wrong things. Many antennas out there don’t work as promised because of
ignorance of how antennas work.
For example, a transmitter with a good SWR (which is a measure of how well
the transmitted signal travels via the antenna system to the outside world),
can still emit signals poorly if a low-quality antenna is coupled to it.
So the focus should always be a high-quality antenna first before anything
else. And the first step to doing that is to understand how antennas work.
ANTENNA TUNER
• Many veteran hams don’t consider the antenna tuner an essential component. It is possible,
and many operators do this a lot, to have a working ham radio without the antenna tuner.
• However, it is an important piece of equipment you should have if you want to make your ham
radio shack better at receiving and transmitting signals.
• Antenna tuner comes in different shapes and sizes. Of course, there are very sophisticated
ones that cost a lot of money. But you can get a pretty decent one like the LDG Electronics Z-
817 Automatic Antenna Tuner, either used or new, at a modest price.
• Basically, an antenna tuner allows the operator to transmit on more than the one frequency the
antenna is designed for. For example, if you have a dipole antenna designed to transmit on
the 80-meter band, the antenna tuner would help you transmit on other bands like on 40 or 17
meters and so on.
• If you consider that antennas don’t perform well in bands other than the one they were
designed for, you would appreciate the utility of the antenna tuner in making multi-band
transmission possible.
• So. if you want to expand the capability of your simple antenna in terms of effective bands and
THE OPERATOR
Before you can operate a ham radio, you must have a license. There are three
classes of license, and these are
Entry-level license or technician – This is the basic class and does not have all the
privileges of the other two classes. With this license, you are restricted to just a few
HF bands and can’t take part in long-distance communication.
General Class – This is the most popular licensing category. To get to this level, you
need to pass the technician exam first. You get more HF band privileges with this
license. Many hams don’t see a need to go beyond this point.
Advanced level (Amateur Extra) – This gives you access to all HF bands and the
entire radio spectrum is open to you. To get this class, you must have passed the
licensing exam of the general and have had a few years of experience operating a
ham radio
WORKING OF HAM RADIO
BLOCK DIAGRAM
COMMUNICATING WITH MORSE CODE
MORCE CODE MEANING
QRL Is this frequency busy?
QRZ Who is calling me?
QSB Signal fading
QTH What is your location?
GL Good luck
QSY Change to other frequency
QSL Received and understood
QRV Are you ready?
QRT Shall I stop sending?
QRQ Shall I send faster?
THANK YOU