• Professor of Psychology
• Penn State Amateur Radio Club Faculty Advisor, K3CR license trustee
• Nittany Amateur Radio Club Mountaintop Clubhouse Co-Manager
• Ham since June 2016

Agenda

• Radio is everywhere
• A zillion hobbies in one
• Next steps

• Wifi (900 MHz, 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz)
• Bluetooth, (2.45 GHz)
• GPS, 1575.42 MHz; 1227.60 MHz; 1023 MHz.
• Cell/mobile, (too many to list!)

Summits on the Air (SOTA)

https://www.mountbakerexperience.com/summits-on-the-air-dispatches-from-a-society-of-mountaintop-radio-operators/

National Parks on the Air (NPOTA)

Walmart Parking Lots on the Air (WPLOTA)

Contesting

Ria Jairam, N2RJ

https://www.contestcalendar.com/weeklycont.php

World Radiosport

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Radiosport_Team_Championship

Weak signal modes

Software defined radio (SDR)

Atmospheric Science

Emergency/Event Communications

Build & launch a cubesat

http://www.cubesat.org/

Talk to space

https://www.n2yo.com/?s=28375

Collegiate Amateur Radio Initiative

Go where no one has…

Hack hardware

Build RF-based data networks

https://www.arednmesh.org/

Operate anywhere!

http://www.remotehamradio.com/

Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS)

https://aprs.fi/#!addr=state%20college

Learn new languages

Join a world-wide community

https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cpaIUPJOG9Kdb0Xo-hyzhcVKcyvOr37vrGIF1mIETHs/edit#gid=906307814

Get licensed

• Technician
• General
• Amateur Extra

Join a club

• Nittany Amateur Radio Club, k3rog@arrl.net, https://www.nittany-arc.net/

We are…

K3CR

Penn State Amateur Radio Club
k3cr@psu.edu

A Penn State tradition

Get on the air!

Why ham radio?

It’s fun!

da-da-di-di-dit di-di-di-da-da
da-di-dit dit
da-di-da di-di-di-da-da di-da-dit da-da-da da-da-dit

73 de K3ROG
(Best wishes from me)