Amateur Radio World-Wide - NW7US - HAM Radio on LF, MW, HF, VHF, and higher

your resource center for shortwave listening and amateur radio
propagation, news, dx, education, and more

Modified on: July 2, 2009
This site has been running since June, 1999.

Brought to you by NW7US - Tomas - in Western Montana, USA

NEW! Space Weather Podcast! See: NW7US Space Weather / Radio Proapgation Podcast

Quick link: NW7US Radio Propagation and Space Weather Center

Check out these sites:
- my new DIGITAL HF RADIO website
- my AM (Amplitude Modulation) Amateur Radio Resource website
- my CW (International Morse Code) Resource Center

Tomas David Hood - NW7US - that is me, the fellow that runs this website. I am a musician. The music that is now playing is my music. If you like my music, please vote for my songs. Click the 'Listen to All Tracks' button, in the following banner. If you would, please vote for each song. It helps me in my musical journey! (You can also leave me a comment on what you think about my music.) (To vote, you have to create a free account, but they do that so you only vote once for a song. This prevents inflated votes.)

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Check it out: Portable High Frequency HAM Radio Operation
(yeah, even during this period of low sunspot activity)
in my backyard, here in Stevensville, Montana, in my travel trailer (for sale).

NW7US Portable Station - Travel Trailer, Backyard in Stevensville, Montana

NW7US Portable Station - Travel Trailer, Backyard in Stevensville, Montana

Subscribe to my Space WX RSS Feed:
(Opera 9.x):

FOR SALE: 2008 Thor Adirondack travel trailer with Satellite TV semi-auto dome, 2 pull outs, 1 bedroom and living room, kitchen, shower and restroom, etc. Pictures: Trailer for sale.

Tomas David Hood is NW7US - and Tomas is:

+ Propagation Editor for CQ, CQ VHF, Popular Communications

+ Associate Member of Propagation Studies Committee of RSGB

+ Living here: 113.99W 46.55N Stevensville, MT USA
... which is in Grid Square DN36 / ITU Region 6 / CQ Zone 4 :

+ Operating - QRP, on CW, SSB, PSK-31, Olivia, DominoEx, MFSK

+ A member of the following clubs and groups:

- Straight Key Century Club #4758
- Ten-Ten #56526 : FISTS 7055 : FISTS NW 57
- Lighthouse Scty 144 : NAQCC 1774
- Monthly QRP Field Day Member #62 : QRP ARCI 12781
- 30 Meter Digital Group #0640 : Digital Modes Club #1144
- BARTG #8077
- European PSK Club (EPC) #4768

+ A contributing editor on Wikipedia - Amateur Radio/Space WX

Tomas creates websites, too. Check out the latest:
Chidwick School of Fine Woodworking
Auctions in Montana - Wayne and Mike, Auctioneers

Other NW7US / Tomas Hood pages:

+ NW7US at eQSL.cc
+ NW7US 'Live' page
+ NW7US at MySpace.com
+ My Music MySpace Page
+ My Music ShoutLife Page
+ NW7US at QRZ.com

General Site and Resource Menu:

+ HOT: ACE-HF Pro for Ham Radio / SWLing
. - - ACE-HF is advanced propagation modeling software

+ NW7US Weather Station
. - - here in the Lone Rock area of Stevensville, Montana.

+ General Info on Amateur Radio
+ About NW7US / Tomas Hood
+ The NW7US Propagation and Space Weather Page
+ All about Shortwave Radio Listening (SWLing)
+ All about Morse Code and CW
+ Radio Discussion Forums
+ Emergency and Disaster Public Service
+ Shortwave Radio Resources
+ SWL Frequency Search
+ English SW Frequencies
+ Callbooks
+ Prefix Lookup
+ Guest Book
+ Support
+ NW7US Bookstore
+ Study for your Ham Radio license

+ Award-Winning Space Weather/Propagation Course
+ Monitor Space Weather from your PC

Current Solar Flux: 67 | Sun Spots: 0 as of 07/01/2009
A-index: 2 | K-index: 1 (07 nT) | Aurora: 4
X-ray Solar Flares:
6h hi [none] 24h hi [none]
more propagation...

The current footprint of my 60-watt PSK31 signal during 50 percent of April 2009 at 2000 UTC and 2400 on 20 Meters:
(created with ACE-HF Pro version 2.05 Propagation Modeling Software)

2000 UTC 20M PSK31 Signal Footprint during April 2009 for NW7US

2400 UTC 20M PSK31 Signal Footprint during April 2009 for NW7US

My QSL Card:

Tomas Hood - NW7US - QSL Card

My station while 'portable' - My Icom IC-7000, my two morse code (CW) keys, and my KK7UQ computer-to-radio interface:

NW7US portable station with Icom IC-7000

NW7US portable station with Icom IC-7000

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I am not just an Amateur Radio Operator. I am also a singer / songwriter / guitarist. Please take a listen to my tune samples. If you enjoy this music, please leave me a comment... thank you for listening!

Who am I? Read more about me and my activities with this hobby.

NW7US is the Amateur Radio call-sign issued by the Federal Communications Commission to my Ham Radio Station, conferring the right to operate this equipment under certain privileges. This call-sign is assigned to me as both an identification of my Amateur Radio station, as well as a reference to those privileges I have been granted after having passed both a series of written examinations which cover rules, procedures, technical theory, and related knowledge, and a series of morse code (cw) proficiency tests.

I'm Tomas Hood. I am an Amateur Radio Operator. I also own a computer service shop and store, called, 'Sapphire Website and Computers Services', in Stevensville, Montana. I have been in the computer industry since 1983. One of my computer 'hats' is 'programmer'. I can program in Perl, PHP, XML, WAP/WML, HTML, C/C++, VBA, SQL, and so forth. I design web sites and applications.

I am open to suggestions on what you might want to see on my site.

PLEASE VOTE FOR MY MUSIC, HERE:

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