Welcome to the Digital Station of NW7US - Tomas David Hood.

I'm Tomas David Hood. I am a Radio Amateur (Extra), living in Stevensville, Montana. I enjoy having two-way communications by way of shortwave radio signals, in the Amateur Radio hobby. The Shortwave bands are in the High Frequency radio spectrum.

More information about my hobby, in general, can be found here: NW7US Radio Command Center.

What is digital radio? Digital radio includes transmitting information other than voice communications. For instance, typing a message in a 'chat' between two radio stations by way of a mode such as PSK-31.

This website is dedicated to my digital radio interests, and here I will share with you information that I have found useful or entertaining.

You may write me with your comments.



In the meantime, here are some links:

(if you are in the middle of transmitting a digital signal using your sound card, please be aware that some of the following links have music that plays automatically. That music may be transmitted along with your digital signal if you only have one sound card)

• PropNET PSK
  
• Ham Radio Deluxe - what I am using
  
  
  
  
• About Ham Radio
  
• About NW7US (me)
  
• NW7US Propagation Center
  
• NW7US CW Page
  
• Shortwave Radio Page
  
  
• Website by Tomas: Auctions in Montana
  
• Website by Tomas: Chidwick School of Fine Woodworking
  

In general, my station runs 100 watts out of an Icom IC-7000 (pictured, above). I am using the KK7UQ home-built digital interface with the Ham Radio Delux + DRM software. My antenna is a multi-wire dipole. The dipole antenna has wire dipoles for 80, 40, 30, and 20 meters. That means that I can also work 15 meters. With a good antenna tuner (like the Ten-Tec as shown above), I can work all of the HF Amateur Radio bands.

I was born back in 1965 (in Virginia) and I'm 44. I was first licenced in 1990, though I have been a real high-frequency fan since the early 1970's when I discovered Shortwave Radio. I loved hearing the foriegn stations. Using HF is like travelling without leaving home. I love meeting new folks.

I write for CQ, CQ VHF, and Popular Communications. I write the Propagation columns for each magazine. I also write once or twice a year in Monitoring Times.

I am really enjoying PSK31 and the other digital modes, like Olivia, lately. I'm spending a lot of time on digital radio.

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I am a member of ...

- 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
- Straight Key Century Club #4758

Other sites about me:

• Tomas on Facebook
  
• Tomas David Hood - Music Page
  
• NW7US on MySpace
  
• Bitterroot Amateur Radio School Club on MySpace
  
• Tomas David Hood on MySpace
  
• Tomas David Hood on LinkedIn
  

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Tomas David Hood - NW7US - that is me, the fellow that runs this website. I am a musician. You can listen to my music by clicking on the following banner, then click the 'Listen to All Tracks' button. 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.)

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Check out the snow falling, on March 31, 2009 - and the horse trying to brace against the wind...