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DL7BUR Amateur Radio Bucket List

Current Status : 2 / 200 ( 1% )
Last update : 18. October 2013
Latest addition : WSPR RX & TX

At some point in summer 2013, I more or less lost interest in writing on my Blog, to get me going again I was thinking about what I should do. So I started thinking that I should set myself some goals in amateur radio, so that I could write about them. I came up with the idea that I should have used every band and every mode at least once in my Life as a HAM. I thought about it and refined the idea a bit and came up with these 4 goals:

I will use every Band at least once in RX and TX.
I will use every Mode (that is known in general) at least once in RX and TX.
I will operate with every working Hamsat at least once.
I will own proper Equipment to work on every primary amateur band at any time.

Since doing all this at some point in Life is a bit too uncertain if it will ever be done, I have put myself a restriction of 10 Years from now on. So until 31. Dec. 2023 I will hopefully have a fully green list below. I have now 200 items on my agenda for ham radio.

I guess this is just a different approach to something like IOTA, SOTA or “Worked all Countries”.

Bands

Band Name	Low Edge	High Edge	RX	TX
2200m	135,7 kHz	137,8 kHz	N/A	N/A
630m	472 kHz	479 kHz	N/A	N/A
160m	1810 kHz	2000 kHz	N/A	N/A
80m	3500 kHz	3800 kHz	N/A	N/A
40m	7000 kHz	7200 kHz	N/A	N/A
30m	10,1 MHz	10,15 MHz	N/A	N/A
20m	14 MHz	14,35 MHz	N/A	N/A
17m	18068 kHz	18168 kHz	N/A	N/A
15m	21 MHz	21,45 MHz	N/A	N/A
12m	24,89 MHz	24,99 MHz	N/A	N/A
10m	28 MHz	29,7 MHz	N/A	N/A
6m	50,08 MHz	51 MHz	N/A	N/A
2m	144 MHz	146 MHz	N/A	N/A
70cm	430 MHz	440 MHz	N/A	N/A
23cm	1240 MHz	1300 MHz	N/A	N/A
13cm	2320 MHz	2450 MHz	N/A	N/A
9cm	3400 MHz	3475 MHz	N/A	N/A
6cm	5650 MHz	5850 MHz	N/A	N/A
3cm	10 GHz	10,5 GHz	N/A	N/A
12mm	24 GHz	24,25 GHz	N/A	N/A
6mm	47 GHz	47,2 GHz	N/A	N/A
4mm	76 GHz	81,5 GHz	N/A	N/A
2,5mm	122,25 GHz	123 GHz	N/A	N/A
2mm	134 GHz	141 GHz	N/A	N/A
1mm	241 GHz	250 GHz	N/A	N/A

I was not sure if I should add non-German Bands to this list, like the 60m or 4m Bands. These would need me to go abroad to use them, for now I leave them out, maybe I will get ambitious enough to add them at some point, for now I would really be happy to just fulfill this list.

Modes

Mode	RX	TX
LSB	N/A	N/A
USB	N/A	N/A
AM	N/A	N/A
FM	N/A	N/A
CW	N/A	N/A
PSK	N/A	N/A
RTTY	N/A	N/A
Thorb	N/A	N/A
MFSK16	N/A	N/A
WSPR	18 Oct 2013	18 Oct 2013
MT63	N/A	N/A
Olivia	N/A	N/A
Hellschreiber	N/A	N/A
Fax	N/A	N/A
SSTV	N/A	N/A
DRM	N/A	N/A
AMTOR	N/A	N/A
PACTOR	N/A	N/A
Packet	N/A	N/A
APRS	N/A	N/A
Pocsag	N/A	N/A
ATV	N/A	N/A
D-ATV	N/A	N/A
DV	N/A	N/A
Echolink	N/A	N/A
HamNet	N/A	N/A
EME	N/A	N/A
Meteorscatter	N/A	N/A
Aurora	N/A	N/A
QRSS	N/A	N/A
Maritime Mobile	N/A	N/A
Aeronatical Mobile	N/A	N/A
Fox Hunting	N/A	N/A

Especially this list of modes might change over time. Digimodes are invented and forgotten everyday. I still want to try out as many as possible. Also the border between a technical Mode (like FM, AM, CW, SSB) and a practical application (like EME, Meteorscatter, Aurora) are not always clear.

Birds

Des.	Name	Transp.	RX (DL)	TX (UL)
AO-7	Oscar 7	Beacon	N/A	-
AO-7	Oscar 7	Linear	N/A	N/A
UO-11	UoSat-2	Beacon	N/A	-
AO-16	PacSat-1	Beacon	N/A	-
RS-15	RadioSkaf-15	Beacon	N/A	-
IO-26	ITAMSAT	Beacon	N/A	-
FO-29	Fuji-2	Linear	N/A	N/A
RS-30	Yubileiny	Beacon	N/A	-
SO-33	SEDSat	Beacon	N/A	-
NO-44	PCSat	Digipeater	N/A	N/A
SO-50	Saudisat-1C	FM	N/A	N/A
CO-55	Cute-1	Beacon	N/A	-
CO-57	XI-IV	Beacon	N/A	-
RS-22	Mozhayets 4	Beacon	N/A	-
VO-52	VUSat	Beacon	N/A	-
CO-58	XI-V	Beacon	N/A	-
DO-64	Delfi-C3	Linear	N/A	N/A
CO-65	Cute-1.7	Digipeater	N/A	N/A
CO-66	SEEDS II	Beacon	N/A	-
HO-68	XW-1	FM	N/A	N/A
HO-68	XW-1	Linear	N/A	N/A
FO-69	FASTRAC 1	??	N/A	N/A
FO-70	FASTRAC 2	??	N/A	N/A
AO-71	AubieSat-1	Beacon	N/A	-
Mo-72	Masat-1	Beacon	N/A	-
ISS	ARISS	FM	N/A	N/A
ISS	ARISS	Digipeater	N/A	N/A
ISS	ARISS	APRS	N/A	N/A
ISS	ARISS	D-ATV	N/A	-
-	CAPE-1	Beacon	N/A	-
-	COMPASS-1	Beacon	N/A	-
-	KKS-1 KISEKI	Beacon	N/A	-
-	SwissCube	FM / AFSK	N/A	Uplink via web ?!?
-	ITUpSAT1	Beacon	N/A	N/A
-	BeeSat-1	Beacon	N/A	-
-	BeeSat-2	Beacon	N/A	-
-	JUNO	CW	-	Missed
-	PW-Sat-1	Digipeater ?	N/A	N/A
-	TISat	Beacon	N/A	-

Compiling this table has taken me quite some time. It looks as most satellites are just sending their telemetry on a Ham-Band, which is alright but does not really elate me. For me it should be more about communication with someone else and not just listening to data. So I have not listed every cubesat that just does beacon transmissions in the list. Maybe I will fix this at some point, either by adding all the beacon only sats or by throwing all other beacon only sats out. I don’t know. Also my kudos to Mike, dk3wn who has a pretty exhaustive compilation of satellites and details on operation with them. See his page at http://www.dk3wn.info/satellites.shtml

Equipment

Band Name	Low Edge	High Edge	RX	TX
160m	1810 kHz	1850 kHz	N/A	N/A
80m	3500 kHz	3800 kHz	N/A	N/A
40m	7000 kHz	7100 kHz	N/A	N/A
20m	14 MHz	14,35 MHz	N/A	N/A
17m	18068 kHz	18168 kHz	N/A	N/A
15m	21 MHz	21,45 MHz	N/A	N/A
12m	24,89 MHz	24,99 MHz	N/A	N/A
10m	28 MHz	29,7 MHz	N/A	N/A
2m	144 MHz	146 MHz	N/A	N/A
70cm	430 MHz	440 MHz	N/A	N/A
12mm	24 GHz	24,05 GHz	N/A	N/A
6mm	47 GHz	47,2 GHz	N/A	N/A
4mm	75,5 GHz	76 GHz	N/A	N/A
2mm	134 GHz	136 GHz	N/A	N/A
1mm	248 GHz	250 GHz	N/A	N/A

Getting a full set of equipment to operate on shortwave is pretty easy nowadays. You just buy an “All Mode, All Band Transceiver” and are good to go. But all the other Bands, especially the millimeter-bands will be a bigger challenge. Most probably I will need to work my way through from the lower end to the higher adding transverter after transverter.

Vy 73 de DL7BUR,
Burak Özhan