What to Record in Your Ham Radio Logbook

Video Transcript

"For Expert Village, I'm Kurt, N7QJM. Today, we're continuing our series on ham radio. And, this, of course, is the microphone. You can actually tune the frequency up and down, you can hear the beeps. You can actually tune across the band. This, of course, is a push to talk, a PTT, as you might be able to see it right there. That's the microphone. So, we've got the call book and it's kind of a general thing that people use, anymore. I'll show you a little bit of the call of what I actually fill it out. I'll keep the date and the calls in the second column. And then, obviously, this column here, the third column is the frequency, my frequency, and then we're talking the call signals; and most of those I don't record but I usually record the frequency that I'm on, his signal strength and the time of start and the time of ending and then any notes or comments that I have right in this area right in this area here. This one is done on contesting, so it tells you the type of operations that's used. Okay, these connectors here, are actually for interfacing the ham rig, this guy here, to a computer. You would actually use this type of connector, it's a din connector, it comes out of the back of our rig here and it would plug into a computer via a serial port called a DB9. Also, by using that type of connector as well you could connect using one of these mini-plugs onto the hand held. You could control and record information from the normal transceiver into the computer as well. So, those are the parts that actually interface. Be sure to put comments down, and if I can be of any help go ahead and send an email, my email address is online there, as well and we'll try assist you, at least steer you in the right direction for amateur radio operating. Again, it's N7QJM. We are off and 73's."