Wikipedia:WikiProject Amateur radio
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WikiProject Amateur radio (Portal)

WikiProject Amateur radio is a WikiProject that aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of amateur radio. Its goals are the improvement of Wikipedia articles related to amateur radio, maintenance of the amateur radio category and its sub-categories, and production and maintenance of templates for amateur radio–related topic identification.
Project members should ensure that articles are referenced and written from a neutral point of view—amateur radio operators should resist the urge to resort to boosterism or to write articles from a local or personal point of view.
Please help this project evolve by providing your own modifications, comments and suggestions. (Don't know where to start? Leave a message on the project talk page.)
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Announcements Announcements
31 December 2025 - Working on italian Amateur radio portal and project:
Do you understand any italian? You can Help
25 December 2025 - ...and we have a portal icon!.
24 December 2025 - We have a portal. There is the amateur radio topics template, take a look at it:
23 December 2025 - Good evening, I'm Working on amateur radio satellites pages, expanding, fixing and categorizing them:
- Category:Amateur radio satellites
- de:Kategorie:Amateurfunksatellit (for comparison)
If you feel, improve them. Would be very nice to have OSCAR satellite project page. I'm working on it here: User:Sinucep/sandbox. Here a useful template:
23 December 2025 - Hello! I sent a message on the project participants' talk page. We'll update the list in a month or so. Feel free to invite new members personally or through public postings. Sinucep (talk) 00:13, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
21 December 2025 - Good evening, I just created the Category:Films about amateur radio category. It needs to be further populated! Sinucep (talk) 20:43, 21 December 2025 (UTC)
17 December 2025 - Hi, I'm organizing and adding pages to the template. I've already made changes and I'll continue in the coming days. Any suggestions are welcome!
Sinucep (talk) 13:24, 17 December 2025 (UTC)
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How can I contribute to Wikipedia How can I contribute to Wikipedia ?
If you have never used Wikipedia, please take the time to read these articles:
Principal advice
To maintain article quality, please follow these rules:
- Provide sources for your edits. See also the Citations helpdesk below;
- ALWAYS make sure images you upload are under proper license Image Copyrights;
- Restrain the number of red links;
- Ensure external links are active/not broken;
- AVOID emotional arguments, statements about editors of other nationalities, name calling, and anything that is not perceived as constructive, source-backed argument;
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How can I contribute to this project How can I contribute to this project ?
- Create articles about appropriate (and notable) subjects relating to the amateur radio if they don't already exist.
- Tag appropriate existing articles with the project template, and assess them.
- Improve articles by adding appropriate content and references. For some ideas on priorities for improvement see the list of assessed articles by class and importance.
- Add related articles to your watchlist and keep an eye out for any vandalism.
- Research deleted articles for any text worth salvaging to another article.
- Assign the correct category to the pages about amateur radio (start from Category:Amateur radio). Enrich the category structure by creating new ones if necessary.
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Templates in Use Templates
Project banners:
- {{WikiProject Amateur radio}} - add to article talk pages
Userboxes:
- {{User:UBX/amateur radio}} - Userbox for someone with an amateur radio license (does not list call sign)
- {{User:UBX/amateur radio call}} - Userbox for someone with an amateur radio license (lists call sign)
- {{User:UBX/amateur-radio}} - Userbox for someone who is an amateur radio operator
- {{User:UBX/WikiProject Amateur radio}} - Userbox for a member of the WikiProject Amateur radio
Article pages:
- {{AmateurRadioBands-MFHF}} - add to MF/HF band articles
- {{AmateurRadioBands-VHFUHF}} - add to VHF/UHF band articles
- {{Amateur-radio-stub}} - stub tag
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Participants Participants
Active participants
- Sinucep (talk · contribs) Italy - now working on Template:Amateur radio topics and on the resurrection of the project
- TheClocksAlwaysTurn (talk · contribs) USA - Technician Class, working on General. KJ5EMJ
- Dr_vulpes (talk · contribs) USA - General Class. Active VHF rover as well as POTA/SOTA.
- Mu301 (talk · contribs) USA - Amateur Extra class. My main interest is the early history of wireless.
- Baeddelgeuse (talk · contribs) USA - Technician Class.
- Miniapolis (talk · contribs) (formerly Wi2g) US Extra Class licensee; Morse code and copyediting a specialty (Guild of Copy Editors member)
- Surv1v4l1st (talk · contribs) USA - Technician class
Unknown status participants
- Tjlynnjr (talk · contribs) K7IWH, USA [1]Rookie, Anfänger, Oofängele ve Başlayıcı.
- StuffOfInterest (talk · contribs) (US Amateur Extra class license holder and general technology geek) -- 22 August 2006
- Jo7hs2 (talk · contribs) USA - Technician Class
- Ninly (talk · contribs) (US General-class licensee, professional copyeditor, and writer)
- Dodger67 (talk · contribs) South Africa
- LuckyLouie (talk · contribs) USA - General Class
- Jmaynard (talk · contribs) (US Amateur Extra class license holder, computer professional, technology geek, and Internet celebrity)
- NW7US (talk · contribs) (US Amateur Extra class license holder; propagation columnist for CQ Amateur Radio Communications Magazine, and for The Spectrum Monitor magazine. Past columnist in CQ VHF, Popular Communications, guest propagation writer for Monitoring Times; Senior Software Engineer at Deloitte with TEKsystems)
- sv1xv (talk · contribs) Greece
- Indianajosi (talk · contribs) USA - Technician Class (KC9TWS)
- Mason220 (talk · contribs) USA - General Class (KC3IHK)
- Prairie Astronomer (talk · contribs) USA - General Class. I enjoy learning about electronics and digital radio.
- Pragmatist (talk · contribs) USA - Amateur Extra Class Operator AE1PT, ARRL certified Volunteer Examiner
- Krashlandon (talk · contribs) USA - General Class, ARRL member.
- Sparkgap (talk · contribs) US - General Class
- Erzahler (talk · contribs) NØJAA, General-class operator, southern Brevard County (FL) Skywarn coordinator
- Aeazer (talk · contribs) Finland - OH2EKB
- Jc3s5h (talk · contribs) US Amateur Extra class licensee.
- vinitp2004 (talk · contribs) USA - General License (KK6NSN)
- Lovibond (talk · contribs) USA - Amateur Extra class
- ZLEA (talk · contribs) USA - Amateur Extra class
- Kiwiz1338 (talk · contribs) New Zealand - ZL2NEJ
- BeigeTeleprinter (talk · contribs)
Inactive participants
- Kc2idf (talk · contribs) (US General class licensee, technology geek and computer professional)
- Anonym1ty (talk · contribs) (US Amateur Extra class license holder and Internet professional)
- Aaron (talk · contribs) (US Technician class license holder and Extra class Net geek)
- ChardingLLNL (talk · contribs) (US Extra class license holder and Professional Computer JOAT) My at home wikiID is User:ChuckHarding53
- Kc9eow (talk · contribs) (US Technician class license holder, paralegal/electrical engineering major, former IT technician, all around 'geek')
- Ke5crz (talk · contribs) (US Technician, VB.net programmer)
- Mystic Pixel (talk · contribs) (US Technician, electrical engineering student, broadcast radio engineer)
- Gerry Lynch (talk · contribs) (UK Full licence holder, experienced DXer and contester, journeyman DXpeditioner)
- Lynbarn (talk · contribs) (UK novice (M3) licence holder, light user, IT Project Manager)
- kc7zru (talk · contribs) (US Amateur Extra class license holder, technology geek and computer (IT) professional)
- The Good Ol' Country Doctor (talk · contribs) (US Amateur Extra class license holder, -- --- .-. ... . -.-. --- -.. . user, ragchewer, DXer, part time geek and full time nerd)
- kdbailey (talk · contribs) (US Amateur Extra class license holder, GROL license holder)
- Nichalp (talk · contribs) =Nichalp «Talk»= 09:50, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
- Iknowyourider (talk · contribs) (US Amateur Extra license holder, tech geek, software engineer)
- RobHoitt (talk · contribs) (Rob Hoitt, N1FSK US General License Holder, Former Assistant Section Manager, ARRL NH Section)
- albany45 (talk · contribs) (AA6E, US Extra Class, licensed 1957, aa6e.net)
- Dp67 (talk · contribs) N3LRX/8 Randy Advanced Class. Battle Creek, Michigan. Licensed since 1992. AM is the name of my game!
- Andrewjuren (talk · contribs) (Canadian Advanced and Morse Code holder; Delegated Examiner for Industry Canada)
- kharker (talk · contribs) (US)
- fishyghost (talk · contribs) (2E0XDY)
- WikiTraveller (talk · contribs) (N8CBW, US Amateur Extra, county-hunter, DXer, post-Katrina responder, IT professional, general technology geek)
- KB1LQC (talk · contribs) (KB1LQC - Extra Class, RIT Amateur Radio Club K2GXT member, Co-Founder Chelmsford High School ARC KB1NAY, Experimenter)
- RadiomanPA (talk · contribs) USA - Extra Class - licensed since 1969 - DXer, classic equipment collector and restorer
- Radio User (talk · contribs) LF/VLF, microwaves experimenter
- VChapman (talk · contribs) USA - Amateur Extra Class Operator - Licensed since 1992 - Former Electronics Tech and Unix Admin. Currently a nursing student.
- N5iln (talk · contribs) USA - Amateur Extra Class licensee, QCWA member, GROL holder, Volunteer Examiner (ARRL/W5YI) and weather nerd.
- KF5LLG (talk · contribs) US- Technician Class
- Matthewrbowker (talk · contribs) KDØTHF Technician class license, ARES member
- ContrillionAU (talk · contribs) Foundation-class licensee from Australia, VK3FJTS
- M0SCU (talk · contribs) UK - Full Licence
- RaptorChief (talk · contribs) USA - Amateur Extra Class
- YT5ZEC (talk · contribs) Serbia - Class 1
- ElongatedMusketeer (talk · contribs) USA - Amateur Extra Class
- Jeff U. (Talk) USA - General Class
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Assessment Assessment
Updated by a bot; by default the bot runs once every three days but it can be launched manually if required.
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Recent Articles Articles
See the category page for a full list of articles that have been identified as being within the scope of this project.
Subcategories:
- Articles in need of urgent attention
- Articles in need of infoboxes
- Articles in need of photographs
- Articles organized by quality
- Articles organized by importance
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Deletion Deletion
Content deletion discussions On occasion, amateur radio-related articles are nominated for deletion. Here is a list of any known AfD discussions and other deletion proposals currently ongoing. Feel free to discuss these on the project's talk page.
Most recently kept
- Pakistan Amateur Radio Society (AfD, kept on 4 March 2010)

- Trinidad and Tobago Amateur Radio Society (AfD, no consensus on 1 March 2010)

- Lietuvos Radijo Mėgėjų Draugija (AfD, kept on 1 March 2010)

- Liga Panameña de Radioaficionados (AfD, kept on 26 February 2010)

- Association Royale des Radio Amateurs du Maroc (AfD, kept on 25 February 2010)

- Club de Radioaficionados de Guatemala (AfD, kept on 25 February 2010)

- Royal Union of Belgian Radio Amateurs (AfD, kept on 25 February 2010)

- New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters (AfD, kept on 25 February 2010)

- Asociatia Radioamatorilor din Moldova (AfD, kept on 25 February 2010)

- Hong Kong Amateur Radio Transmitting Society (AfD, kept on 25 February 2010)

- Réseau Luxembourgeois des Amateurs d'Ondes Courtes (AfD, kept on 25 February 2010)

Most recently deleted
- Magyar Rádióamatõr Szövetség (AfD, deleted on 25 February 2010)

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To Do List To Do List
- Invite new participants to the project
- Test and improve the Portal:Amateur_radio
- Link the german amateur radio project

- Add a section "Goddard Amatuer Radio Club (WA3NAN)" to the page Goddard Space Flight Center
Drafts
- Draft:OSCAR (satellite)
- Draft:List of OSCAR satellites There are some missing flag templates

Pages to improve to GA-Class:
Pages to expand and improve:
- 20 meters
- Amateur radio international operation
- Amateur radio net
- Amateur radio operating award
- American Radio Relay League
- Associazione Radioamatori Italiani
- Baofeng UV-5R
- Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
- DX cluster
- Federacion Mexicana de Radio Experimentadores
- Field Day (amateur radio)
- Gin pole
- Glossary of amateur radio - Glossary page
- International Amateur Radio Union
- International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend
- Japan Amateur Radio League
- Les Hamilton - GM3ITN Scotland (Falklands war)
- Ham radio (magazine) - published in the USA from 1968 to 1990
- Liga Brasileira de Radioamadores
- Radio Amateur Society of Thailand
- Radio Club Argentino
- Radcom
- Réseau des Émetteurs Français
- Replexer
- Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network
- Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment
- Simulated Emergency Test
- Skywarn
- South African Radio League
- Soyuz Radiolyubitelei Rossii (Russian Amateur Radio Union)
- Suomen Radioamatooriliitto (Finnish Amateur Radio League)
- The Canadian Amateur - member journal of the Radio Amateurs of Canada
- Tucson Amateur Packet Radio
- Union de Radioaficionados Espanoles
- Vectronics
- War Emergency Radio Service
- Winlink
- Wireless Institute Civil Emergency Network (Australia)
- Wireless Institute of Australia
- Yaesu (brand)
- YASME Foundation
Pages to create:
- Amateur Radio (magazine) - member journal of the Wireless Institute of Australia
- Amateur Radio Research and Development Corporation
(AMRAD) of Washington, DC – Development of Packet Radio - Ameritron - Ameritron is a manufacturer of amplifiers
- Beaches On The Air awards program
- Break In (magazine) - member journal of the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters
- Doug Lockhart VE7APU (developed the Terminal node controller)
- DX Century Club (redirect)
- FlexRadio Systems - SDR maker
- HAMNET - South African amateur radio emergency communications organization
- HB9CV - Famous DF VHF antenna
- Hy-Gain (redirect)
- Ionoscatter - de:Ionoscatter, similar to troposcatter, but on ionosphere, not troposphere
- Mirage (manufacturer)
- Radio propagation software
- Sako Hasegawa - JA1MP, founder of Yaesu Musen
- Tokuzo Inoue - JA3FA, founder of Icom Incorporated
- Tony Pole-Evans (Falklands War)
- Transequatorial propagation - see TV-FM DX for a starting point
- Tropospheric ducting (redirect) - worth splitting from TV-FM DX into its own article
- U.S. Islands Awards Program awards program
- VHF/UHF Century Club (redirect)
- Worked All Zones (redirect)
- Yaesu FT-857 (redirect) - Radio model remarkable for experimentation
- Debian Hamradio Pure Blend - Amateur radio related packages project for Debian
- Chinese Radio Amateurs Club (CRAC) - See: de:Chinese_Radio_Amateurs_Club and the Chinese page.
- Free Radio Network (FRN) - Software similar to eQSO. See: de:Free_Radio_Network, nl:Free_Radio_Network
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Wikimedia Amateur radio on Wikimedia sites
Images and media from Commons
Dictionary definitions from Wiktionary
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Quotations from Wikiquote
Source texts from Wikisource
News stories from Wikinews
Learning resources from Wikiversity
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