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Real equipment and operating photographs. Original files are unchanged; the cards use layout crops. Photo licenses apply to their respective images. No endorsement is implied.

  • First Contact and Calling Channels: original photographs by Nick, provided for Ham101.com. Layout crops and optimized WebP copies; radio displays remain unchanged. Pictured frequencies are illustrative, not calling-channel instructions.
  • Repeater Settings: Wm4t amateur radio tower.jpg — Wd4sbx. CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Contact Logging: Sm0tqx.jpg — Henryk Kotowski. CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Q Signals & Shorthand: NATO key.jpg — RSAG. CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Phonetic Alphabet: NX1Z Radio.jpg — John J. O’Brien, NX1Z. Public domain.