SECTION 01
Getting Started
What radio is in Minecraft, your call sign, crystals and the parts everything is made from.
QRZ? // THE RADIOCRAFT HANDBOOK
Radiocraft Wiki
Welcome to amateur radio. This handbook walks you from your first VHF handheld to a full HF station, repeaters, packet radio and the instruments that read the sky.
Every build in here can be shown in the world: press Visualize on a build page and follow the ghost blocks.
This wiki is the in-game guide book, Radiocraft Handbook, on the web. In game, craft
a book with a piece of wire (Patchouli must be installed), or type /radiocraft guide.
SECTION 02
Radios
Handhelds, base stations, HF transceivers, receivers, and what happens when you abuse them.
SECTION 03
Antennas & Coax
A radio is only as good as its antenna. Coax, baluns, wire antennas, verticals, VHF antennas and tuners.
SECTION 04
Power
Radios run on energy: solar panels, batteries, charge controllers and wire.
SECTION 05
Propagation & Noise
How far a signal goes: line of sight, skip, hills and valleys, and the noise that buries weak stations. The sun has its own section, Sun & Weather.
SECTION 06
Sun & Weather
The sun decides which HF bands are open; the weather fills the fax charts and the APRS beacons. How to read both, and the Ionospheric Processor that measures the sky and broadcasts it.
SECTION 07
Digital Modes
Packet radio: APRS beacons, maps and messages, the radio fax and the teletype.
SECTION 08
Repeaters
Put a repeater on a hill and every handheld in range can reach every other one.
SECTION 09
Fire & Safety
Bare wire, batteries and lightning can hurt you and burn your station down. What goes wrong, and how to build so it does not.
SECTION 10
Direction Finding
Find a transmitter: a direction finder with an antenna array for bearings, bearings from other stations for a fix, and a handheld to walk the last stretch.
SECTION 11
Microwave Links
Point-to-point links over dishes: carry APRS, direction finder bearings and telephone calls between sites.
SECTION 12
Telephones
Desk and wall phones, and the PABXes that connect them: across a building, or between sites over microwave links.