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Everything here prints on a desktop printer on ordinary letter paper, and everything here is free. Print it, punch it, pass it on. What you may not do is sell it.
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Field Record
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These are ready-made. If you want one with your own callsign, your license class and your own repeaters in it, the generator builds it in about fifteen seconds and nothing you type leaves your machine.
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Sample logbook
A whole volume with eight deployments in it, so you can see the shape of the thing before you commit paper to it. Site Record, two sheets of contacts and a debrief for each outing, the field reference up front, the station records at the back.
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Field reference
Part One on its own, with nothing to write in. Band plan, calling frequencies, signal reports and Q signals, activation requirements for POTA, SOTA and WWFF, the UTC day, grid squares, propagation, antenna math, coax loss, power budgets, RF exposure, ARRL sections, prefixes, and the checklists for before you leave and before you drive away.
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Radio quick reference cards
Fifteen radios: the Elecraft KX2 and KX3, Icom IC-705, IC-706MKII, IC-7000, IC-7100 and IC-7300, Yaesu FT-818ND, FT-857D, FT-891, FT-897D and FT-991A, and the Xiegu G90, X5105 and X6100. Every card says at its foot where it came from and what could not be checked. Only the IC-706MKII was written from a radio on a bench. The rest were restated from the makers' own manuals, and where a manual was silent the block is absent rather than guessed.
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How to print it
All of it is 8.5 by 11 portrait with a wide inner margin, sized for a three ring binder and a desktop printer. No trimming, no bleed, no print shop.
- 01Duplex on the long edge Or print single sided if your printer will not duplex. The margin is wide enough either way.
- 02Actual size, not fit to page Scaling shrinks the punch margin and the holes will eat the log columns.
- 03Punch the left edge There is 0.90 inch of clear margin on the binding side of every page for exactly this.
- 04Color if you have it The band chart uses color to show what your license class may transmit on. It still reads in black and white, but color is faster with cold hands.
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Licensing
Everything on this page is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Print it, hand it to somebody at a club meeting, put a stack on the table at a hamfest, change it to suit your own station. Credit the author, do not sell it, and pass on any changes under the same terms.
Frequency allocations, program requirements and exposure rules were compiled from the sources named in each book's colophon and were current when it was built. The copyright page carries the build date. The operator, not the book, is responsible for lawful operation. Check 47 CFR Part 97 and the current rules of any program you are chasing before you transmit.
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Still on the bench
Rather than three empty categories, here is the honest list. Build drawings, wiring diagrams and parts lists go up as each project reaches the point where somebody else could build it from the paperwork. The antenna switch build sheet is up. The radial system and the station notes are not.