Radio Station N6H at HOPE Number Six
July 15th, 2006 mlc
The FCC has granted radio station callsign N6H for a special event station at HOPE Number Six. Ham radio operators will operate station N6H from the 18th floor and demonstrate how wireless voice, data, and video contacts can be made to other amateur radio stations around the world over shortwave (HF), VHF, and UHF frequencies. A special HOPE Number Six QSL card will be issued to anyone who successfully contacts or
hears radio station N6H on the air.
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18 Comments
1. Sceptre | July 16th, 2006 at 12:29 am
This is pretty cool.. When can we see a list of frequencies and modes that we’ll be operating on?
2. NeoAmsterdam | July 16th, 2006 at 4:11 am
Frequencies, wattage, etc.?
3. el_nerdo | July 16th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
We’re looking at 100W on HF for starters.
Frequencies have yet TBD but the common practice for Special Events is to operate about 30 kHz up from the bottom of the General Class portion for each band.
So listen for us there. Of course, propogation permitting, we’ll be on 10, 20, 40, 80m mostly.
Listen for us on sideband voice mostly, but I have been told there may be some CW operating as well.
I plan to put an Echolink node on the air as well, so watch for that.
4. sephail | July 17th, 2006 at 12:19 am
Up-to-date information about the station will be kept on its wiki page:
http://wiki.hopenumbersix.net/Amateur_Radio
5. Ryan Hoffer | July 17th, 2006 at 1:15 am
I dont know too much about amatuer radio, but I am pretty interested in it. Hopefully someone at HOPE will be able to help me out a bit on listening in.
6. Sceptre | July 17th, 2006 at 1:22 am
Us Tech class Hams are counting on the UHF, VHF operation… Might bring an H/T to HOPE..
7. el_nerdo | July 17th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
Definitely bring an HT! There are always lots of hams at HOPE.
8. el_nerdo | July 17th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
Ryan, just come by the station, and we’ll show you everything. As long as there’s a control operator there, you’ll be able to get on the air yourself, if you’d like.
9. souterrain | July 17th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
ooh, shiny! Will hams that walk up be able to work HF? I’ve not been on in years. I will bring the HTs.
10. MysticPixel | July 17th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
awesome. will be there with the 2m/440 HT (no time to upgrade to general, sadly.)
11. Joe | July 17th, 2006 at 11:08 pm
Did someone say CW ? From 1 to 20 WPM I can help
12. el_nerdo | July 18th, 2006 at 1:23 pm
MysticPixel: there were ideas floating around about having a VE session at the conference… sadly, there just wasn’t enough time to get everything co-ordinated. The next conference there will be an exam session for anyone interested.
13. el_nerdo | July 20th, 2006 at 9:49 am
MysticPixel: Turns out we’re going to have a VE session after all! So if you think you want to upgrade, you’ll have the opportunity.
14. Randy Rambo | July 20th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
Shoots, boots! The conference starts tomorrow! Fortunately I may be able to invest in a inexpensive “shortwave” radio receiver at LONGS in Hilo today. Can I pick up these signals here in the jungle on the Big Island (Hawaii) without a large antennae?–I dunno’ yet.
I would love to learn that some smart hacker(s) recorded the whole event (or every major panel) in mp3 or similar format. I live for listening to the earlier HOPE conferences (H2K2, et al!). Please post those mp3s ASAP. I can download them on the fast servers at school (University of Hawaii at Hilo).
Please make sure that every speaker (audience members too) talks directly into the mike every time.
Aloha!
15. MysticPixel | July 20th, 2006 at 10:14 pm
el_nerdo: excellent, now to learn CW in the next 24 hours…
…unfortunately, the chances are slim. We’ll see though.
See you at the con.
16. bobo | July 21st, 2006 at 4:02 pm
someone please stream Jello on the web. or post the ogg.
thank yous so very muchly.
17. Ken | July 22nd, 2006 at 7:39 pm
Any suggested times and frequencies?
18. Wirechief | August 25th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
I’m sorry I missed the special event station. Will you be doing this again next year ? I have been an Amateur Radio Op. for 23 years now. I love your mag also. I hope to hear you next year. Thanks for all your efforts.