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• AMSAT, the Amateur Satellite Corporation. Find out more about amateur satellites, where they are, what software is available to predict their paths, what frequency to listen for them or transmit to them (yes, you can make ham radio contacts via satellites too).
• The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) home page
• The ARRL Catalog of publications and products
• ARRL Contest Calendar
• Clubs info
• Dayton Hamvention now in May for better weather than April
• Federal Communications Commission (USA)
• IK4LZH DX QSL information
• Israel Amateur Radio Club
• National Radio Club and DX Audio Service
• Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers
• Tucson Amateur Packet Radio a key organisation in the history and current digital technologies used by radio amateurs. Most of the TNCs used today are based on the TAPR standard.

• AMSAT Australia, AMSAT New Zealand, AMSAT UK and other AMSAT and Amateur Radio Satellite groups
• AMSAT News
• Amateur Radio Satellites - frequencies for Voice and CW
• Micro Orbiter Software (a pc based satellite tracking program)
• NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center Overview link corrected
• NASA's gopher /
• Orbital Elements: All Satellites or only ham satellites
• Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment This gives information about the space shuttle's amateur radio experiments - on recent missions, many or most of the crew have had ham licences. They give hams an opportunity to make brief contacts with the shuttle as it passes overhead. The SAREX program also aims to provide school students with the same experience, by making specific schedules for contacts with schools in advance of each mission.
• Also see this SAREX site
• Mir Refresher Course for details of how to make contacts with the Russian space station.
• University of Surrey's Spacecraft Engineering Research Group has been responsible for many amateur radio satellite projects.

• AAPRA - Australian Amateur Packet Radio Association's Software resource library
• TigerTronics doing interesting new things with the Baycom PC-based modem
• EzPacket software home page
• Jon Welch's WinTNC home page
• W9YT Packet Gateway
  (Login with your callsign and give your e-mail address as password.)

• Bayside FTP site
• CT by K1EA - The Ultimate Contest Software
• DX4WIN Windows logging software for dxers
• BuckMaster Publishing World Wide Ham Directory
• Six Metre band Links, FAQs, hints
• Another collection of links and info about 6 metres
• US Ham Radio.FAQ WD1V's FAQ - he says you can find it all via the modern search engines, so he is not maintaining his links any more... I can relate to that...
• Amateur Radio Elmers Resource Directory an excellent supplement to the FAQ as it's a directory of "Elmers" (mentors, experts, and gurus) for amateur radio who can answer questions via Internet E-mail and via the various resources (such as special-topic FAQ Lists and WWW pages) that they maintain.
• Easyterm software to control AEA and Kantronics TNCs
• Radio Progressive Montreal Inc with subject areas such as Amsat, callsign servers, clubs, personal pages, digital, dx, SSTV, weather, software etc.
• Ham Radio Vendor Directory
• Another Vendor Directory
• Ham Radio Online also has a Commercial Products Directory
• KA-Win Software for Kantronics TNCs
• Linux Amateur Radio Software List This is a list of amateur radio software available for Linux, a popular freeware version of Unix for Intel equipment.
• WWW Site for Macintosh Ham Radio Enthusiasts
• The Guide to the Personal Radio Newsgroups, written by Jay Maynard, K5ZC, provides an excellent overview to all of the USENET newsgroups devoted to amateur and CB radio.
• A Guide to Buying and Selling on Usenet, also written by Jay Maynard, contains a number of good pointers for reading and posting articles concerning the buying and selling of radio and radio-related equipment on the USENET newsgroup rec.radio.swap (which is the only appropriate forum for such articles).

  Read the newsgroup first to see if your question has already been answered. You may also view, and search for keywords in, older news articles (going back to March of 1995) at the DejaNews archive

• You can also find software and other ham radio related products via search engines or from ads. Top

• Adam VK4CP runs this very useful resource - check out the discussion forums and dx clusters
• Australia-New Zealand VHF-UHF Discussion Forums
• N0EOQ and KA0NNO's VHF / Microwave site
• Six Metre band club
• Six Metre band FAQ
• GJ4ICD's links to many VHF/UHF resources, including beacon lists, clusters, nets, homebrew gear, commercials etc. See the VHF propagation FAQ at this site too.
• North East Weak Signal VHF Group Home Page by WZ1V - with lots of useful links to other US sites, such as grid locators, contest details, site info, software essentials and more.
• KB2AH's 1296 MHz equipment including low noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, antennas. If you are a modem user, be patient. The pictures of the big dishes and other images are worth seeing.

  "An output of 1.4KW is attained by using two 6-tube ring amps in parallel, combined with a 180-deg hybrid. The driver is a 1-tube cavity driving a 2-tube cavity driving the two 6-tube cavities. At full output there is a plate current of 3 amp at 1400 volts on the two 6-tube amplifiers. A total of sixteen 7289's are used in the system."

• AF9Y's Home Page - look at his EME (earth-moon-earth) antenna arrays. These antennas allow him to bounce signals off the moon and converse with other hams with similar setups. He challenges you to hear some (really) weak morse signals in a recording of a signal received via the moon. I downloaded his WAV file and heard only a trace of a callsign about halfway through. See how well you go.

  Update: AF9Y said in a posting to aus.radio.amateur.misc that after a year, no-one had succeeded in decoding the callsign from the noise.

• Microwave Journal
• VHF Communications magazine (UK)

Beacons

• 50 MHz beacons

• Australian Novice Notes Online by Peter Parker VK1PK
• Amateur Radio QRP Pages for low power enthusiasts
• QRP-L is a newsletter about QRP equipment and operations. Here is some information about joining the QRP-L mailing list and here are Archives of QRP-L.
• Several QRP projects described by George Rosenberg, KC6WDK, including a crystal-controlled direct conversion receiver, a simple QRP transmitter, a crystal checker, a RF power meter, and a field strength meter. NB. Link inactive June 05. Find new site!

Homebrew Radio Equipment - Articles, resources, parts sources

• Harry, SM0VPO's homebrew page

DX operation, IOTA, DXpedition info, contests

• Islands on the Web - N1HRW's informative website that includes forums for exchanging IOTA info, an IOTA calendar of forthcoming operations, the Most Wanted Islands survey, and heaps of links to related websites.
• CQ Magazine Contest page
• ARRL Contest Calendar

• Shortwave radio propagation prediction charts
• Propagation - introduction by Tom Sundstrom W2XQ
• Shortwave/Radio Catalog
• DXer.COM

• Antennex magazine online - the Amateur Radio Magazine all about antennas
• Ham Radio Online an international ham radio e-zine based in the USA. An extensive links list too.
• Ham Radio Today On-Line (U.K.) published by the Radio Society of Great Britain
• Newsline - Amateur Radio News

Radio Links: General: Short Wave Listening

• Australian Radio DX Club
• Penta Comstat Penta Marine Radio Communications is a unique privately operated radio communication station providing a personalised service for small craft in the South Pacific and recreational 4WD's in outback Australia.
• Radio stations on the web
• shortWWWave Paul Dwerryhouse's directory of international media information
• Radio New Zealand which also provides program material over the net. Follow the links from the home page.

• CTP Speech Inv. Descramblers

• Rick Daniel WD8MHV
• Slow Scan TV Page SSTV Handbook, FAQs and SSTV images
• VE7TCP ftp site including miniprop software, packetcluster software, archives of the ARRL DX Bulletin, archives of the Ohio/Penn DX Bulletin and more...