Greetings All

Please join us tonight for.....

7:00 pm 146.61 Auburn Repeater(no-pl tone)
Androscoggin Amateur Radio Club On air Meeting and Net
Training topic: improving signal reporting skills

8:00 pm 3943/7243 kHz lsb (+/-  for band conditions)
WX1GYX SKYWARN HF Net TEST

8:30 pm 146.88/146.35/147.18/146.85 KQ1L linked repeater system (100
Hz pl tone)
WX1GYX SKYWARN Training Net

Below ARRL FSD-220
Communications Procedures
ITU Phonetic Alphabet
RST System
Time Conversion Chart

     ARRL Communications Procedure

Voice     Code     Situation
Go ahead     K     Used after calling CQ, or at the end of a
transmission, to indicate any station is invited to transmit.
Over     AR     Used after a call to a specific station, before the
contact has been established.

    KN     Used at the end of any transmission when only the specific
station contacted is invited to answer.
Stand by or wait     AS     A temporary interruption of the contact.
Roger     R     Indicates a transmission has been received correctly
and in full.
Clear     SK     End of contact. SK is sent before the final
identification.
Leaving the air or closing the station     CL     Indicates that a
station is going off the air, and will not listen or answer any
further calls. CL is sent after the final identification.

     ITU Phonetic Alphabet

Word list adopted by the International Telecommunications Union

*A*--Alfa

*B*--Bravo

*C*--Charlie

*D*--Delta

*E*--Echo

*F*--Foxtrot

*G*--Golf

*H*--Hotel

*I*--India

*J*--Juliett

*K*--Kilo

*L*--Lima

*M*--Mike

*N*--November

*O*--Oscar

*P*--Papa

*Q*--Quebec

*R*--Romeo

*S*--Sierra

*T*--Tango

*U*--Uniform

*V*--Victor

*W*--Whiskey

*X*--X-ray

*Y*--Yankee

*Z*--Zulu

     The RST System

       Readability

*1*--Unreadable

*2*--Barely readable, occasional words distinguishable.

*3*--Readable with considerable difficulty.

*4*--Readable with practically no difficulty.

*5*--Perfectly readable.

       Signal Strength

*1*--Faint signals, barely perceptible.

*2*--Very weak signals.

*3*--Weak signals.

*4*--Fair signals.

*5*--Fairly good signals.

*6*--Good signals.

*7*--Moderately strong signals.

*8*--Strong signals.

*9*--Extremely strong signals.

       Tone

*1*--Sixty cycle a.c or less, very rough and broad.

*2*--Very rough a.c., very harsh and broad.

*3*--Rough a.c. tone, rectified but not filtered.

*4*--Rough note, some trace of filtering.

*5*--Filtered rectified a.c. but strongly ripple-modulated.

*6*--Filtered tone, definite trace of ripple modulation.

*7*--Near pure tone, trace of ripple modulation.

*8*--Near perfect tone, slight trace of modulation.

*9*--Perfect tone, no trace of ripple or modulation of any kind.

If the signal has the characteristic steadiness of crystal control,
add the letter X to the RST report. If there is a chirp, the letter C
may be added to so indicate. Similarly for a click, add K. The above
reporting system is used on both cw and voice, leaving out the "tone"
report on voice. Turn card over for examples.

     Time Conversion Chart

UTC     EDT/AST     CDT/EST     MDT/CST     PDT/MST     PST
0000* <http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/forms/fsd220.html#*>     2000
1900     1800     1700     1600
0100     2100     2000     1900     1800     1700
0200     2200     2100     2000     1900     1800
0300     2300     2200     2100     2000     1900
0400     0000* <http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/forms/fsd220.html#*>
2300     2200     2100     2000
0500     0100     0000* <http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/forms/
fsd220.html#*>     2300     2200     2100
0600     0200     0100     0000* <http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/
forms/fsd220.html#*>     2300     2200
0700     0300     0200     0100     0000* <http://www.arrl.org/FandES/
field/forms/fsd220.html#*>     2300
0800     0400     0300     0200     0100     0000* <http://
www.arrl.org/FandES/field/forms/fsd220.html#*>
0900     0500     0400     0300     0200     0100
1000     0600     0500     0400     0300     0200
1100     0700     0600     0500     0400     0300
1200     0800     0700     0600     0500     0400
1300     0900     0800     0700     0600     0500
1400     1000     0900     0800     0700     0600
1500     1100     1000     0900     0800     0700
1600     1200     1100     1000     0900     0800
1700     1300     1200     1100     1000     0900
1800     1400     1300     1200     1100     1000
1900     1500     1400     1300     1200     1100
2000     1600     1500     1400     1300     1200
2100     1700     1600     1500     1400     1300
2200     1800     1700     1600     1500     1400
2300     1900     1800     1700     1600     1500
2400* <http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/forms/fsd220.html#*>     2000
1900     1800     1700     1600

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the time at the zero or reference
meridian. Time changes one hour with each change of 15 degrees in
longitude. The five time zones in the US proper and Canada roughly
follow these lines.

* 0000 and 2400 are interchangeable. (2400 is associated with the date
of the day ending, 0000 with the day just starting.)

FSD-220 (1/04)

--
Be Well
73
David Lowe WE1U (Ex-KB1NJP Ex-N2TFV)
Auburn Maine
207 783.1759

My Home Page:
http://home.gwi.net/~lowetek/index.html

WX1GYX SKYWARN amateur radio station of the National Service Forecast
Office Gray Maine:
http://www.wx1gyx.org/

Androscoggin Amateur Radio Club AARC W1NPP: http://www.w1npp.org/

Androscoggin Amateur Radio Emergency Services ARES at W1NPP
http://www.w1npp.org/ares.html

David Lowe <lowe...@gwi.net>