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    Hello! Welcome to the HHS Amateur Radio Club page.

    Club Call Sign: W6HHS

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    In August we will need to elect our 2025-26 Club Officers:

    President

    Vice President

    Treasurer

    Secretary

    Club Council Representative

     

    Advisor: Mr. Holmes (holmess@luhsd.net)

    Remind code: text @W6HHS to 81010

    Meetings in person, Room C-114, Thursdays during lunch

    Follow us on Instagram! We're at @W6HHS

    All minutes are located in the club documents.

    Curious about what ham radio is? Please check out this 3 minute video:

    Weekly Net: Every Wednesday, 2015 hours local time (8:15 p.m.) on the WA6HAM repeater system.

    We welcome all guests to the net!

    WA6HAM repeater frequencies here:

    Kregor Peak freq

    Highland peak

    14 Feb. 2022 - Woohoo! We made our first QSO for the log, using FT8 on 15m, a contact with VK4KX in Australia!

     

    Photos of radios   Image of FT8 digital mode

    Radio Club members

    Our visit to N6RO contesting station:

    At N6RO

    After school participation in the ARRL 10 meter contest:

    10m contest

    Steps to getting started are below, following main club info.

    Mr. Holmes is the club's Advisor and welcomes you to the HHS Amateur Radio Club. Holmes has been licensed since 2018 and holds an Amateur Extra class license.

    One major goal of the club is to help students get licensed to operate on the air. This hobby is very diverse, whether you are interested in being able to work public events or help in emergency situations and public service, or experiment with low power contacts overseas, antenna building, contacting satellites, digital modes, etc. You can enjoy this hobby if you're very shy, or very chatty, and the whole spectrum in between. You don't need to be a math or electronics expert, but you'll find that a lot makes more sense as you experiment.

    Check out this video "Meet Young Radio Amateurs: Q&A With Phillipp Springer"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh5MttDszqM 

    Some early steps to getting started:

    NEW AS OF 2025:

    Please set up an account at hamstudy.org and start practicing sessions for the Technician test (2022-2026). There is a companion app for the cell phone and when testing, the same format and layout will be experienced when using ExamTools, a secure testing browser you can use with your cell phone or a classroom laptop.

    Practice exam...once you get licensed, you can operate on amateur radio frequencies...so here are two practice sites. No need to pay for "paid" practice sites.  You will need to create a login and password, and this helps track your progress. These are two possible places to get started.

    The Technician license is the entry-level test to get you on the air, with basic privileges on several "bands" or a range of frequencies on the air. The tests are simply rote memorization, so passing is easily achievable...the understanding of how the bands and frequencies works will grow on you over time.

    http://arrlexamreview.appspot.com/

    https://hamexam.org/exam/15-Technician

    After practicing and earning passing practice exam scores, I can then recommend online testing sites or some local testing. Local testing can happen at Heritage HS (We'll schedule this), and there are other test sessions hosted by the Mount Diablo Amateur Radio club. 

    Online testing can happen here, but we've got no personal experience with online remote testing:

    https://kl7aa.org/vec/remote-testing/

    If you find after a while that you'd like more privileges, you can then pursue the General license. It's a bit more work, but I can help. Mr. Holmes had his Technician license for a year before earning his General license.

    View of Mt. Diablo with repeaters