Welcome toham-radiolive

After signing in you land on the Lite version of ham-radiolive, where the chat opens on the frequency your transceiver is tuned to — or you type the frequency manually if you haven't installed our connector. Pick one of 11 interface languages.

Now everyone on the air, across all bands, can see you. Leave the window (or the door, if you like :) open — and the moment someone writes to you in ham-radiolive chat, you'll hear in Morse code: that's our notifier, and you can always mute it if you don't need it.

Go about your day and stay on receive the whole time — both on the air and in ham-radiolive chat.

Switch to the full version of ham-radiolive and a lot opens up: see how many operators are online right now, sort by continents and DXCC countries, and find the frequency where the operator or DXpedition you're after is calling. From here you can also download the ham-radiolive connector or reach me with a wish, a recommendation or a request via the SUPPORT button.

You can also chat in ham-radiolive in whatever language suits you — every message is automatically translated into the interface language of the person on the other side.

For example: you write to a ham in English while they have Portuguese on — they'll get your messages in Portuguese and reply in Portuguese, but you'll see everything in English!

Of course, these aren't all the features already in ham-radiolive. I'm still writing the manual and will post it here on the site soon. For example, every operator has badges: a continent icon, DX if the info comes from the cluster, Live if it's a registered member of ham-radiolive; Member, Ambassador, Net, StandBy and others are coming too. You can add callsigns to your Favorites and see when they come on air in ham-radiolive, and on which band and frequency they are right now.

If a frequency has a special purpose, it gets its own plaque too — for example QRP Call Frequency or DX Expedition, or maybe a “Charlottesville roundtable”, or a frequency for the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES).

I've tried not to duplicate features that already exist in other programs, so if you use them — keep using them! ham-radiolive is a wonderful addition: a way to see who's on a frequency (QRZ) and arrange a QSO with the station, DXCC country, DXpedition or grid square you need for an award (in my case that's KM72ms). And if you don't find who you were looking for right now, remember — someone is looking for you too, so being online matters. Be online — be in touch!

And welcome to ham-radiolive!