Amateur radio station N5LXI is licensed to joel Sampson. A ham since 1964, I have an Extra Class license. My ham bio and information about my equipment is on my ham bio page. The QTH is Dallas, Texas.

I work as a full-time artist. My fine art is large, color photographs of urban landscape and collage. Art, a bio and more information are at my main web site, www.joelsampson.com.

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News

I updated the radio links and open source software list. I will be updating the repeater directory the next couple of months, I'm a little behind.

Thanks for all the great comments I received at Ham-Com this year. I'm glad it is of use to you.

Some of the HF nets have changed frequency due to bandplan changes, especially 40 and 75 meters. I have not been very active the past couple of years. Where's the sunspots?

Verified Dallas / Fort Worth Frequencies

This is the official source of Dallas and Fort Worth repeater frequencies! There are a lot of printed, on-line and other repeater directories. What makes this one unique is the frequencies are actually verified. Many of the repeaters listed in other directories are non-working. Plus several are not listed. All of these repeaters actually work! I've spent considerable effort on this project the past several years. I also have other frequencies that may be of use. Please do not lift my data, for one reason it changes often.

We have a lot of working repeaters in the Dallas / Fort Worth metroplex. Many of the machines are not very active. The repeaters owned by radio clubs tend to be more active and up more often. I am not listing any repeaters that I know are truly closed. Most of the repeaters listed as closed in ARRL publications really aren't. Most repeater owners are glad to have some activity!

Verified Dallas / Fort Worth Repeater Directories

Two Meters
Verified D/FW Two-meter (144 MHz) FM repeaters
Two-meter Simplex FM frequency chart
All Southwest Two-meter FM Repeaters within 500 miles of Dallas

Other bands
Verified D/FW 1.25 meter (222 MHz) FM repeaters
Verified D/FW Seventy-centimeter (440 MHz) FM repeaters
National Ten-meter FM repeaters

Dallas / Fort Worth Nets

D/FW 6-meter, VHF & UHF Nets

Public Service and other Frequencies

Verified area NOAA weather frequencies
Verified Dallas Police & Fire frequencies
Dallas Area Rapid Transit, DART Railroad frequencies
U.S. AAR Railroad frequencies
U.S. Maritime frequencies

Free QSL Card Dividers

QSL Card Dividers state_dividers.pdf (144k) - Download, print, cut and make QSL Card Dividers. File cards by state, plus Canada and DX. Requires free Adobe Acrobat reader.

HF Operational Guides

Getting started in HF WAS and DX nets
Reporting signals on SSB
Phonetic Alphabet - know your A, B C's
State capitals and call district