Does the ARRL General Class License Manual 5th edition still have all the info I need? (For exams beginning July 1 2004)

That’s the latest one they had at the library. I can’t imagine a whole lot has changed since then. Maybe once I’m done reading, I should go through the latest pool of questions and study them. Is there anything else meaningful that’s changed?

Thanks a bunch for your time!

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Getting started

I want to get a simple setup for my home. Please advise.

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Balloon Launch Data

I posted here late last week about our Balloon launch, and many of you tuned in to participate. Thanks for trying out the repeater and everything! Many of you were asking about problems, and where to find information; I wanted to provide that for those interested.

First off the repeater:

While we were building the repeater, we had problems with the transmit radio getting stuck transmitting for some reason. We had thought it was because the receive and transmit radio’s coupled together or something. So we stuck a ground loop isolator on and it seemed to fix the problem. However when we assembled the payloads the antennas didn’t get far enough apart, and it looks like that caused the transmit radio to get stuck in transmit until the battery died.

Next APRS:

Some of you noticed that APRS stopped reporting once the reached a certain altitude. When I designed the system, I used a Tinytrak4 because I liked the modular nature of it, and all the settings it had. However, I realized after the launch that I had it not only sending packets but receiving packets. The tinytrak did not transmit any packets until it had 100ms of free space after receiving a packet. So as the the balloon got higher and higher, the tinytrak got more and more saturated with packets, and as a result it stopped transmitting the location. Next time I will have to take this into consideration and make it a send only system.

Finally, if you’re interested in getting some of the data or taking a look at the code for our data logger, I am putting it all on my GitHub: http://ift.tt/2fyIsf1

We are also working on uploading pictures, videos, and other fun stuff to http://starduster.info

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Building the ultimate Amateur Radio daily driver!

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I want to study for me license but I also want to keep my personal information private. Do I have to allow the FCC to disclose my home address on their site?

My question pretty much sums it up. I am really surprised that (so it seems) you have to have your home address linked with your call sign / full name on the FCC site that is publicly available. I’m certainly not a paranoid person, but I personally do not want the whole world to be able to type in my name or call sign and have my home address. Similarly most redditors don’t even want their real names associated with their reddit call sign. I’m more than ok with the FCC having this info, but not some guy across the world… Is there a way to hide this information from the public if I decide to get my license? I know when I buy a domain name I can pay a little extra to have my public info hidden through the domain registrar (i.e. godaddy). Is there an option like this for getting licensed?

Anyway, I enjoy what you guys do!

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