May 2025 Presentation – Making Voice Contacts in Ham Radio

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It can be intimidating to make your first voice contacts when you’re a new ham.

Paul Havlik (WD9IOK) gave this excellent presentation to help motivate new hams to overcome their anxiety and get started.

See also: a video made by another WCARES member Cliff Batson (N4CCB):

For Nervous New Hams

Maximize your signal reception – a presentation by Tim, AD4CJ

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Tim, AD4CJ talks about how to get the most out the sensitive receivers in most modern HF transceivers.

https://youtu.be/8cUUvxnGM4w

In this video, Tim covers:

  • how to fine tune
  • how to zero-beat phone and cw signals
  • automatic gain control (AGC)
  • the RF-gain control
  • pre-amps and attenuators
  • noise-reducer and noise-blanker circuits

San Diego ARES – Winlink series

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The San Diego ARES have put together a series of short videos to help those new to Winlink navigate Winlink Express software. Topics include installation, configuration, ICS forms and more.

You can find the playlist for this Youtube series here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-7mirT-kjfs84FQzLr-qv066Kl94rtYM