I serve as the Thursday net control station on the Oregon ARES District 1 Net. The Net runs every day from 7:30 to 8:00 PM, Pacific Time.

The Net operates on linked repeaters of the Amateur Radio Relay Group with the following frequencies: 147.320, 442.325, 444.400, and 147.040 MHz with a 100 Hz tone, plus 146.720 MHz (on Wikiup Mountain) and the 444.125 with a 114.8 Hz tone. It also has an alternate repeater on 146.840 MHz with no tone.

Most D1 Net sessions have a few minutes when there is no business to be conducted; they are filled by discussing topics of interest to net participants. The topics I choose often involve information available on the Web, links to which are listed below in reverse date order (most recent first).

• June 22, 29: Handy Talky Madness (4 Parts): Old School and Analog Digital and the Rise of the Cheap HT And Then There are the Accessories Other Communication Types (On All Bands Blog)
• June 15: Hams Inspired by Sputnik 1 Built OSCAR-1, -2, and -3 Satellites, Taking Amateur Radio into Space (On All Bands Blog)
• June 1: Radio Modulation Types & Techniques (electronics-notes)
• May 25: /Batteries: Your Weakest Link (Off Grid Ham)
• May 18: A belle time on Belle Isle (KB6NU's Ham Radio Blog)
• May 11: QRP Alternatives: After The Funeral, What Comes Next? (Off Grid Ham)
• April 27: TinyGS on GitHub (QST Magazine May 2023)
• April 6: Understanding Wires and Conductors (Off Grid Ham)
• March 30: Are ATUs Necessary for a Field Radio Kit? (On All Bands blog)
• March 16, 23: How to Choose the Right Resonant HF Field Antenna Choosing the Right Non-resonant Antenna (On All Bands blog)
• February 2: Cheap & Easy Portable Antenna Hacks! (Off Grid Ham)
• January 19: Lithium Batteries In The Cold: A Guide Yaesu FT-817 & FT-818: 2001-2022 (Off Grid Ham)
• January 5: SSB Receive Filter Bandwidth (Ham Radio School) Identify that antenna by sight (Hackaday)
• January 2: Definition: Current Balun, Voltage Balun (Owen Duffy)

• December 29: An Introduction to AC inverters (Off Grid Ham)
• December 22: Conventional vs. Inverter Generators (Off Grid Ham)
• December 1: Open-source passive radar taken down for regulatory reasons (Hackaday) Local Radio Interference – know where to look in your own home (VK3FS)
• November 17, 24: Noise in radio communication (Basu, VU2NSB)
• November 3: Build a Passive Radar With Software-Defined Radio (IEEE Spectrum)
• September 29: Multiband End-fed Half-wave EFHW Antenna (Basu, VU2NSB)
• September 22: Tracking down interference in the 2m amateur band (VK3FS)
• September 15: Folded dipole antenna (electronics-notes.com)
• September 1, 8: A Beginners Guide to Repeaters Repeater Builder
• August 25: Halo antenna Wikipedia
• August 18: Antenna diplexer (electronics-notes.com)
• August 4: Catch a Falling Star: A beginner’s guide to meteor-scatter communication (Kirk Kleinschmidt, NT0Z)
• July 28: The best Ham radio app options for Android and iPhones (Radio Fidelity) The Android Ham radio apps (G0HWC)
• July 21: Using Cross Band Repeat While Backpacking (MTHikes) Hey, Which Coaxial Cable Should I Use? (Ham Radio School)
• July 14: Working DX on a Dead 50MHz Band Using Meteor Scatter (OZ1RH)
• July 7: Sunspot Activity on The Sun Is Seriously Exceeding Official Predictions (ScienceAlert) Solar Activity & HF Propagation (QPRARCI)

• June 30: NIST and the Titanic: Improved Wireless Communications for Navigating the Sea (NIST Blog)
• June 23: China says it may have received signals from aliens China’s 'alien' signal almost certainly came from humans (Live Science)
• June 16: Ham Radio Wire Antenna Tips (VE2DPE)
• June 9: Ham Radio Antennas (VE2DPE)
• June 2: Cheap gear: two speaker wire end-fed antennas (WB3GCK QRP Amateur Radio)
• May 12, 19, 26: Tropospheric Propagation -- a primer (VK3FS)
• May 5: VHF/UHF & Free Space propagation (VU2NSB blog)
• April 28: First Ham Radio Licenses Issued – First National Ham Radio Clubs & Societies (electronics-notes.com)
• April 21: Sunspot Activity on The Sun Is Seriously Exceeding Official Predictions (Science Alert) – VHF Multi-mode Transceiver (Ham Radio School – W0STU)
• April 14: Sunspots and Propagation (Ham Radio School – W0STU)
• April 7: Understanding Single Sideband (SSB) (Ham Radio School – W0STU)
• March 24-31: Radio Communication Microphones (VU2NSB blog)
• March 17: What is a doublet antenna? (electronics-notes.com)
• March 10: Mobile Digipeating: Increasing APRS Reception While Backpacking (MTHikes)
• March 3: Backpacking with APRS (MTHikes)
• February 24: Introduction to APRS- the Automated Packet Reporting System (KV9VBR Antennas)
• February 10: Antennas and Power Line Safety (Hamuniverse)
• February 3: How Many Antennas Do I Need? (Ham Radio School)
• January 27: What is QAM: quadrature amplitude modulation? (electronics-notes.com)
• January 20: The $50 ham: WSPR-ing around the world (Hackaday)
• January 13: Discone antennas (electronics-notes.com)
• January 6: Portable Amateur Radio Operations (WD8RIF blog)

• December 30: How amateur radio fanatics launched the world's first private communications satellite (inverse.com)
• December 23: To invest in better Radio Rig or better Antenna (VU2NSB blog)
• December 2: Net Operation (Wikipedia)
• November 25: Dealing with UTC time (hamradioschool.com); Getting Started on 2m SSB (K0NR radio site); Pacific Northwest VHF Nets (PNW VHF Society)
• November 4: LANtenna hack spies on your data from across the room! (Naked Security by Sophos)
• October 21, 28: Forward Error Correction (en-academic.com)
• October 14: Article: The Uncertain Future of Ham Radio (IEEE Spectrum)
• October 7: Mesh networks for Amateur Radio using LoRa. QMesh project (GitHub); LoRaHam project (GitHub); Meshtastic project (Web site); Mycelium Mesh Project (Web site)
• September 30: Mesh networks for Amateur Radio using WiFi. AREDN; Willamette Valley Mesh Network
• September 23: QST magazine (October 2021) article Voice Over LoRa: related links. QMesh project (GitHub); LoRaHam project (GitHub); Meshtastic project (Web site)
• September 16: Antenna Q factor (Ham Radio School.com)
• September 9: How vital is Antenna Polarization in Radio Communication? (vu2nsb.com)
• September 2: A Half-Wave Antenna for Your 2 Meter Handheld Radio (Ham Radio School.com) Best dual band HT antennas for 2021 (besthamradio.com)
• July 18: Best cheap RTL SDR radio kits for 2021 (besthamradio.com)
• July 15: Decoding radio pH capsules with rtl_433 (analogist.net)
• July 8: What is a digital signal processing system? (Technobyte)
• June 3: Considering a VHF/UHF Antenna for Your Home? (Ham Radio School.com)
• May 6 – 20: How to Use Amateur Radio Repeaters (N4UJW)
• April 29: Tropospheric Propagation (electronics-notes.com)
• April 22: Made my first satellite contact! (KB6NU)
• March 11 – April 15: The EMI -- RFI Page (ON4WW)
• March 4: First Radio Hams/Amateurs, First Amateur Radio Callsigns (electronics-notes.com)

• July 1: Continuous wave (Wikipedia)
• June 24: Ground Wave Propagation Tuturial (electronics-notes.com)
• June 10-17: Understanding Low Loss Coaxial Cables and Their Applications (High Frequency Electronics Web site)
• May 20 – June 3: Deep space dial-up: How NASA speeds up its interplanetary communications (Ars Technica)
• May 13: Getting started in QRP (Off Grid Ham.com)
• May 6: A Practical, 5-Band Homebrew Wire Beam -- the Upside-Down Umbrella (AKA Hexbeam) (N4KC)
• April 29: Should I buy that radio from China? (K0NR on Ham Radio School.com)
• April 8-22: Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System (Wikipedia) A Historical and Technical Overview of Tone Squelch Systems (WA6ILQ )
• March 18: Simple End Fed Half Wave for 40m (and how it works) (DH7LM)
• March 11: An Introduction to AC Inverters (Off Grid Ham)
• Feb. 11 – Mar. 4: Tropospheric DX Modes (DX Info Centre)
• February 4: Single Sideband on 2 Meters: The Other VHF Mode (K0NR at Ham Radio School.com), Transverter Wikipedia
• January 28: Single Sideband on 2 Meters: The Other VHF Mode (K0NR at Ham Radio School.com)
• January 21: Practical Signal Reports (K0NR at Ham Radio School.com)

• December 10, 17, 24, 2018: How to use Amateur Radio repeaters (N4UJW}
• December 3, 2018: Amateur Radio Net (Wikipedia)
• November 26, 2018: Net Operation (Wikipedia)
• November 19, 2018: A new antenna using single atoms could usher in the age of atomic radio (Ars Technica) – Building a Time Machine for Radio (IEEE Spectrum)
• November 12, 2018Using Plantronics wireless headsets in Amateur Radio (K5PA)
• Oct. – Nov. 2018: The Arduino Uno microcontroller board. Wikipedia Article on Uno – Uno on the Arduino Web site
• October 22, 2018: Introducing microcontrollers and Arduino: excerpts from CQ Magazine column, Microcontrollers in Amateur Radio. Links: Author's (K8ZT) Web site – Arduino Home – Sample Arduino Projects
• October 8, 2018: Skywarn spotters: Fall training schedule – NWS Skywarn Program – NW Oregon Skywarn Net
• September 2018: Read article: Top 10 Uses for the Raspberry Pi in Ham Radio. Supplemental: more about the Raspberry Pi.
• September 22, 2018: Autumnal equinox article at Vox.com. Supplemental: GAISMA site for sunrise and sunset times world-wide.