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WikiProject Amateur radio
WikiProject Amateur radio is a WikiProject that aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of amateur radio. Its goals are the improvement of Wikipedia articles related to amateur radio, maintenance of the amateur radio category and its sub-categories, and production and maintenance of templates for amateur radio–related topic identification.
Project members should ensure that articles are referenced and written from a neutral point of view—amateur radio operators should resist the urge to resort to boosterism or to write articles from a local or personal point of view.
Please help this project evolve by providing your own modifications, comments and suggestions. (Don't know where to start? Leave a message on the project talk page.)
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Announcements
26 March 2023 Hi everyone, I've been creating articles about DX-peditions, if anyone has some offline sources please let me know! Dr vulpes (💬 • 📝) 08:54, 26 March 2023 (UTC) Recently created DXpedition articles.
12 August 2022 Hi all, this WikiProject looks pretty dead so I'm going to try my best to revive it. I've started adding articles covering radios (IC-705 and FT-891). I have a few goals that I think would help improve the coverage of amateur radio.
- Write out propper articles for SOTA/POTA/IOTA.
- Create articles that cover most modern radios.
- Increase coverage about DX-peditions
Next week I'm going to start working on reaching to people who are still active on WikiPedia and see if they're interested in working together on some of these articles. Dr vulpes (💬 • 📝) 05:36, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
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How can I contribute to Wikipedia
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Principal advice
To maintain article quality, please follow these rules:
- Provide sources for your edits. See also the Citations helpdesk below;
- ALWAYS make sure images you upload are under proper license Image Copyrights;
- Restrain the number of red links;
- Ensure external links are active/not broken;
- AVOID emotional arguments, statements about editors of other nationalities, name calling, and anything that is not perceived as constructive, source-backed argument;
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How can I contribute to this project
- Create articles about appropriate (and notable) subjects relating to the amateur radio if they don't already exist.
- Tag appropriate existing articles with the project template, and assess them.
- Improve articles by adding appropriate content and references. For some ideas on priorities for improvement see the list of assessed articles by class and importance.
- Add related articles to your watchlist and keep an eye out for any vandalism.
- Research deleted articles for any text worth salvaging to another article.
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Templates in Use
Project banners:
- {{WikiProject Amateur radio}} - add to article talk pages
Userboxes:
- {{User:UBX/amateur radio}} - Userbox for someone with an amateur radio license (does not list call sign)
- {{User:UBX/amateur radio call}} - Userbox for someone with an amateur radio license (lists call sign)
- {{User:UBX/amateur-radio}} - Userbox for someone who is an amateur radio operator
- {{User:UBX/WikiProject Amateur radio}} - Userbox for a member of the WikiProject Amateur radio
Article pages:
- {{AmateurRadioBands-MFHF}} - add to MF/HF band articles
- {{AmateurRadioBands-VHFUHF}} - add to VHF/UHF band articles
- {{Amateur-radio-stub}} - stub tag
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Participants
Active Wikipedians
- Tjlynnjr (talk · contribs) K7IWH, USA [1]Rookie, Anfänger, Oofängele ve Başlayıcı.
- StuffOfInterest (talk · contribs) (US Amateur Extra class license holder and general technology geek) -- 22 August 2006
- Jo7hs2 (talk · contribs) USA - Technician Class
- Miniapolis (talk · contribs) (formerly Wi2g) US Extra Class licensee; Morse code and copyediting a specialty (Guild of Copy Editors member)
- Ninly (talk · contribs) (US General-class licensee, professional copyeditor, and writer)
- Dodger67 (talk · contribs) South Africa
- LuckyLouie (talk · contribs) USA - General Class
- Jmaynard (talk · contribs) (US Amateur Extra class license holder, computer professional, technology geek, and Internet celebrity)
- NW7US (talk · contribs) (US Amateur Extra class license holder; propagation columnist for CQ Amateur Radio Communications Magazine, and for The Spectrum Monitor magazine. Past columnist in CQ VHF, Popular Communications, guest propagation writer for Monitoring Times; Senior Software Engineer at Deloitte with TEKsystems)
- sv1xv (talk · contribs) Greece
- Indianajosi (talk · contribs) USA - Technician Class (KC9TWS)
- Mason220 (talk · contribs) USA - General Class (KC3IHK)
- Prairie Astronomer (talk · contribs) USA - General Class. I enjoy learning about electronics and digital radio.
- Pragmatist (talk · contribs) USA - Amateur Extra Class Operator AE1PT, ARRL certified Volunteer Examiner
- Krashlandon (talk · contribs) USA - General Class, ARRL member.
- Sparkgap (talk · contribs) US - General Class
- Erzahler (talk · contribs) NØJAA, General-class operator, southern Brevard County (FL) Skywarn coordinator
- Aeazer (talk · contribs) Finland - OH2EKB
- Jc3s5h (talk · contribs) US Amateur Extra class licensee.
- Surv1v4l1st (talk · contribs) USA - Technician class
- vinitp2004 (talk · contribs) USA - General License (KK6NSN)
- Lovibond (talk · contribs) USA - Amateur Extra class
- ZLEA (talk · contribs) USA - Amateur Extra class
- Dr_vulpes (talk · contribs) USA - General Class. Active VHF rover as well as POTA/SOTA.
- Mu301 (talk · contribs) USA Amateur Extra class. My main interest is the early history of wireless.
- Kiwiz1338 (talk · contribs) New Zealand - ZL2KV
- BeigeTeleprinter (talk · contribs)
Inactive Wikipedians
- Kc2idf (talk · contribs) (US General class licensee, technology geek and computer professional)
- Anonym1ty (talk · contribs) (US Amateur Extra class license holder and Internet professional)
- Aaron (talk · contribs) (US Technician class license holder and Extra class Net geek)
- ChardingLLNL (talk · contribs) (US Extra class license holder and Professional Computer JOAT) My at home wikiID is User:ChuckHarding53
- Kc9eow (talk · contribs) (US Technician class license holder, paralegal/electrical engineering major, former IT technician, all around 'geek')
- Ke5crz (talk · contribs) (US Technician, VB.net programmer)
- Mystic Pixel (talk · contribs) (US Technician, electrical engineering student, broadcast radio engineer)
- Gerry Lynch (talk · contribs) (UK Full licence holder, experienced DXer and contester, journeyman DXpeditioner)
- Lynbarn (talk · contribs) (UK novice (M3) licence holder, light user, IT Project Manager)
- kc7zru (talk · contribs) (US Amateur Extra class license holder, technology geek and computer (IT) professional)
- The Good Ol' Country Doctor (talk · contribs) (US Amateur Extra class license holder, -- --- .-. ... . -.-. --- -.. . user, ragchewer, DXer, part time geek and full time nerd)
- kdbailey (talk · contribs) (US Amateur Extra class license holder, GROL license holder)
- Nichalp (talk · contribs) =Nichalp «Talk»= 09:50, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
- Iknowyourider (talk · contribs) (US Amateur Extra license holder, tech geek, software engineer)
- RobHoitt (talk · contribs) (Rob Hoitt, N1FSK US General License Holder, Former Assistant Section Manager, ARRL NH Section)
- albany45 (talk · contribs) (AA6E, US Extra Class, licensed 1957, aa6e.net)
- Dp67 (talk · contribs) N3LRX/8 Randy Advanced Class. Battle Creek, Michigan. Licensed since 1992. AM is the name of my game!
- Andrewjuren (talk · contribs) (Canadian Advanced and Morse Code holder; Delegated Examiner for Industry Canada)
- kharker (talk · contribs) (US)
- fishyghost (talk · contribs) (2E0XDY)
- WikiTraveller (talk · contribs) (N8CBW, US Amateur Extra, county-hunter, DXer, post-Katrina responder, IT professional, general technology geek)
- KB1LQC (talk · contribs) (KB1LQC - Extra Class, RIT Amateur Radio Club K2GXT member, Co-Founder Chelmsford High School ARC KB1NAY, Experimenter)
- RadiomanPA (talk · contribs) USA - Extra Class - licensed since 1969 - DXer, classic equipment collector and restorer
- Radio User (talk · contribs) LF/VLF, microwaves experimenter
- VChapman (talk · contribs) USA - Amateur Extra Class Operator - Licensed since 1992 - Former Electronics Tech and Unix Admin. Currently a nursing student.
- N5iln (talk · contribs) USA - Amateur Extra Class licensee, QCWA member, GROL holder, Volunteer Examiner (ARRL/W5YI) and weather nerd.
- KF5LLG (talk · contribs) US- Technician Class
- Matthewrbowker (talk · contribs) KDØTHF Technician class license, ARES member
- ContrillionAU (talk · contribs) Foundation-class licensee from Australia, VK3FJTS
- M0SCU (talk · contribs) UK - Full Licence
- RaptorChief (talk · contribs) USA - Amateur Extra Class
- YT5ZEC (talk · contribs) Serbia - Class 1
- ElongatedMusketeer (talk · contribs) USA - Amateur Extra Class
- Jeff U. (Talk) USA - General Class
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See Also
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Wikimedia
- Images and media from Commons
Dictionary definitions from Wiktionary
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Quotations from Wikiquote
Source texts from Wikisource
News stories from Wikinews
Learning resources from Wikiversity
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Barnstars
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The Amateur Radio Barnstar | |
| Awarded to editors who make outstanding, or significant contributions to amateur radio articles. |
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Assessment
Updated by a bot; by default the bot runs once every three days but it can be launched manually if required.
| Amateur radio articles by quality and importance | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FL
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1 | 1 | |||||
 GA
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1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| B | 3 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 31 | ||
| C | 1 | 4 | 11 | 24 | 40 | ||
| Start | 2 | 27 | 57 | 135 | 2 | 223 | |
| Stub | 26 | 65 | 95 | 4 | 190 | ||
| List | 3 | 5 | 8 | ||||
| Category | 68 | 68 | |||||
| Disambig | 2 | 2 | |||||
| File | 1 | 1 | 10 | 12 | |||
| Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Project | 15 | 15 | |||||
| Template | 8 | 8 | |||||
| NA | 1 | 6 | 27 | 29 | 63 | ||
| Other | 7 | 7 | |||||
| Assessed | 6 | 67 | 157 | 295 | 140 | 6 | 671 |
| Total | 6 | 67 | 157 | 295 | 140 | 6 | 671 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | |||||||
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Recent Articles
See the category page for a full list of articles that have been identified as being within the scope of this project.
Subcategories:
- Articles in need of urgent attention
- Articles in need of infoboxes
- Articles in need of photographs
- Articles organized by quality
- Articles organized by importance
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Deletion
Content deletion discussions On occasion, amateur radio-related articles are nominated for deletion. Here is a list of any known AfD discussions and other deletion proposals currently ongoing. Feel free to discuss these on the project's talk page.
Most recently kept
- Pakistan Amateur Radio Society (AfD, kept on 4 March 2010)
- Trinidad and Tobago Amateur Radio Society (AfD, no consensus on 1 March 2010)
- Lietuvos Radijo Mėgėjų Draugija (AfD, kept on 1 March 2010)
- Liga Panameña de Radioaficionados (AfD, kept on 26 February 2010)
- Association Royale des Radio Amateurs du Maroc (AfD, kept on 25 February 2010)
- Club de Radioaficionados de Guatemala (AfD, kept on 25 February 2010)
- Royal Union of Belgian Radio Amateurs (AfD, kept on 25 February 2010)
- New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters (AfD, kept on 25 February 2010)
- Asociatia Radioamatorilor din Moldova (AfD, kept on 25 February 2010)
- Hong Kong Amateur Radio Transmitting Society (AfD, kept on 25 February 2010)
- Réseau Luxembourgeois des Amateurs d'Ondes Courtes (AfD, kept on 25 February 2010)
Most recently deleted
- Magyar Rádióamatõr Szövetség (AfD, deleted on 25 February 2010)
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To Do List
Improve to GA-Class:
Expand and improve:
- 20 meters
- Amateur radio international operation
- Amateur radio net
- Amateur radio operating award
- Amateur radio repeater
- American Radio Relay League
- Baofeng UV-5R
- DX Century Club
- Field Day (amateur radio)
- International Amateur Radio Union
- International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend
- Japan Amateur Radio League
- Hy-Gain
- Radcom
- Replexer
- Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network
- Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment
- Simulated Emergency Test
- Skywarn
- South African Radio League
- Tucson Amateur Packet Radio
- VHF/UHF Century Club
- War Emergency Radio Service
- Winlink
- Wireless Institute of Australia
- Worked All Zones
- Yaesu (brand)
- Associazione Radioamatori Italiani
- Federacion Mexicana de Radio Experimentadores
- Gin pole
- Ham radio (magazine) - published in the USA from 1968 to 1990
- Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
- Liga Brasileira de Radioamadores
- Radio Amateur Society of Thailand
- Radio Club Argentino
- Soyuz Radiolyubitelei Rossii (Russian Amateur Radio Union)
- Suomen Radioamatooriliitto (Finnish Amateur Radio League)
- The Canadian Amateur - member journal of the Radio Amateurs of Canada
- Union de Radioaficionados Espanoles
- Union Francaise des Radioamateurs
- YASME Foundation
Create:
- Amateur Radio (magazine) - member journal of the Wireless Institute of Australia
- Amateur Radio Research and Development Corporation
(AMRAD) of Washington, DC – Development of Packet Radio - Ameritron
- Break In (magazine) - member journal of the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters
- FlexRadio Systems - SDR maker
- HAMNET - South African amateur radio emergency communications organization
- HB9CV - Famous DF VHF antenna
- DX cluster - Used to exist, but was deleted
- Ionoscatter - de:Ionoscatter, similar to troposcatter, but on ionosphere, not troposphere
- Les Hamilton GM3ITN Scotland (Falklands war)
- Doug Lockhart VE7APU (developed the Terminal node controller)
- Mirage (manufacturer)
- Radio propagation software
- Sako Hasegawa - JA1MP, founder of Yaesu Musen
- Tokuzo Inoue - JA3FA, founder of Icom Incorporated
- Tony Pole-Evans (Falklands War)
- Transequatorial propagation - see TV-FM DX for a starting point
- Tropospheric ducting - worth splitting from TV-FM DX into its own article
- Vectronics
- Wireless Institute Civil Emergency Network (Australia)
- Beaches On The Air awards program
- U.S. Islands Awards Program awards program
