Useful Links

neighboring Clubs

• Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade

• Chicago FM Club

• The 415 Amateur Radio Club

• Fox River Radio League

• Lake County (IL) RACES/ARES (Hosts SKYWARN for Lake County, IL.)

• Motorola ARC and DMR-MARC (Motorola ARC MOTOTRBO DMR freqs/info)

• NORA - Northern Repeater Association

• Metro Amateur Radio Club The website of Metro Amateur Radio Club, Lincolnwood, IL

Special Clubs and Groups

• https://nibbb.org Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade

• Illinois Repeater Association
  This is our state’s official repeater coordination body. It is an excellent source for lists of repeaters located in Illinois by frequency and location.

• Indiana Repeater Council

• Wisconsin Association of Repeaters

• Hearham.live A repeater listing site with helpful information for radio programming.

APRS and Packet Radio

• Introduction to Packet Radio

• Introduction to APRS

• Northern Illinois APRS Discussion Forum

• Local APRS Activity Map

Tutorials & Educational Videos

• Greg Lapin’s Presentation on FCC Exposure Rules

• Grounding and shielding of electric circuits

• Crosslinking between Reflectors and Rooms on digital Systems

• Capacitors and Capacitance

• Inductors and Inductance

• Transistors - Field Effect and Bipolar Transistors: MOSFETS and BJTs

• Semiconductors - Physics inside Transistors and Diodes

• Zener Diodes in electric circuits - Voltage Regulators & Transient Suppressors

• Electric Flux Paradox

• Electric Circuit Components

• Electromagnetism - Maxwell's Laws

• Fourier Transform, Fourier Series, and frequency spectrum

• Electric Potential: Visualizing Voltage with 3D animations

• Battery Energy and Power

• Solving Electric Circuits

• How to Solder Metal

• Telecommunications History: Broadcasting

Tools & Parts

• Amazon.com - for electronic parts, hardware, wires and cables, connectors and tools (and everything else)

• digikey.com - distributer for electronic parts and tools

• mouser.com - distributer for electronic parts and tools

• jameco.com - electronic parts, kits ad tools. It looks like an online Radio Shack

• adafruit.com - electronic kits and components. Check it out for Raspberry Pi and Arduino kits and accessories.

• ifixit.com - for tools and special repair parts

Club’s Groups.IO reflectors

The club operates a couple of Groups.io sites that deal with all things related to HF from antennas and radios to operating modes, to recent HF contacts that you might need for your own DXCC.  Visit today and sign up.

To sign up, follow the links below. It will create an email. Send it and you will get an invitation back and with accepting it you will have access to the specific reflector.

• NS9RC@groups.io - for general club news

• NS9RC-HF@groups.io - for HF discussions

• nsdxspots@groups.io - for DX spotting