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[non-voice ham radio modes]   [frequencies & propagation]   [antennas, feedlines, tuners, baluns, SWR]
[ham radio software]  [general & miscellaneous]  [yahoo groups]

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Non-voice ham radio modes
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bullet AA5AU RTTY page
bullet NB6Z's digital HF amateur radio pages
bullet ZL1BPU   "Modern" Digital modes and fuzzy modes (Hellschreiber, MT63, etc)

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Frequencies and propagation
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bullet Propagation:
bullet Solar activity and HF propagation article by Paul, NA5N
bullet An introduction to HF propagation article by Sean, G4UCJ
bullet On-line HF propagation prediction by Serge, ON4AA
bullet HF Ham Bands - Frequencies and Properties
bullet Information about current solar activity from Space Weather (sunspots count & image etc.)
bullet Ham radio: IARU HF Bandplan for Regions 1, 2, and 3 and US-only
bullet Band Plan with popular frequencies for digital modes
bullet HF beacons (beacons allow you to assess propagation conditions)
bullet HF beacon project
bullet List of HF Beacons by G3USF
bullet Beacon monitoring software for PC including Beaconsee
bullet Time signal stations on short-wave here and here, Germany, UK, Japan, USA (you'll need this for calibrating your digi-mode sound-card + software)
bullet Marine and aviation (including weather fax)
bullet Listing of worldwide shortwave broadcasts in english and other languages
bullet HF broadcast stations: type in a frequency and get listing of stations that use it
bullet List of HF RTTY stations (not Ham Radio)
bullet W6RK digital mode DX activity spotter
bullet KE7HPV Hellschreiber activity spotter

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Antennas, feed lines, tuners, baluns, SWR
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bullet Frank's antennas: "slinky" dipole, "¼-size Cobra" - folded dipole, "20 meter mini-dipole", "ZS6BWK version of G5RV", and "20 meter mini-Yagi"
bullet HFpack pedestrian-portable antenna shootout report
bullet VE3SQB antenna web site - excellent, many calculators.
bullet The DX Zone - antennas
bullet A6CV's antenna links homebrew & commercial
bullet VU2WAP's antenna links
bullet W4RNL antenna links
bullet Antenna construction hints
bullet K8ZT's antenna links
bullet YO5OFH's antenna links
bullet W8JI's antenna links
bullet The Antenna Elmer
bullet VE3SQB antenna calculation software
bullet Articles:
bullet How important is low SWR?
bullet Antennas and feedlines
bullet The easy way
bullet Evaluation of Antenna Tuners and Baluns

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Ham Radio software that I use:

bullet Hellschreiber (freeware by IZ8BLY, works with PC soundcard)
bullet FTPGetter (to upload receiver-screenshots to my website ; shareware)
bullet MMSSTV (SSTV = Slow Scan Television; freeware by JE3HHT, works with PC soundcard)
bullet Click here for sample SSTV pictures of my QSO's etc.
bullet KE5RS FTP Widget (to upload received SSTV pictures to my website; freeware)
bullet MMTTY (RTTY = Radio Teletype "telex"; freeware by JE3HHT, works with PC soundcard))
bullet MixW (excellent multi-mode for $50 (worth it!), works with PC soundcard; does not support MFSK8 mode - see Stream below)
bullet Stream (MFSK8 and MFSK16 modes; freeware by IZ8BLY)
bullet JVComm32 (I use it for HF-FAX/WEFAX, but it also does RTTY, SYNOP, NAVTEX, SSTV; free full-function demo version by DK8JV)
bullet Digital Modes 780 (DM780) and Ham Radio Deluxe (HRD) (DM780 is multi-mode decoder software with built-in SSTV image upload via ftp. HRD is a control program fro CAT-able transceivers. DM780 and HRD can be used stand-alone, or be linked. Both are freeware by Simon, HB9DRV)
bullet Click here for a write-up by GØHWC on how to calibrate the TX/RX clock settings of most of the above software packages.
bullet QuickMix  (to save/restore my specific PC's soundcard settings for each of my ham radio programs; freeware)
bullet VOA-Prop (propagation forecasting freeware)
bullet to accurately show HF beacon activity, make sure to turn on auto sync of your PC clock to the NIST atomic clock (may require turning java off, and configure firewall; double-click on time/date at lower right hand corner of windows desktop screen, select "internet time" tab and activate)
bullet Beaconsee (HF beacon propagation conditions monitoring; freeware)
bullet PC soundcard interfacing here and here; Click here for a description of how I hook up my PC to my radio  (Acrobat .pdf file)

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General & miscellaneous
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bullet Callsign database here and here and here
bullet Amateur Radio Info by Geoff, G4ICD
bullet Ham links by AC6V
bullet Ham radio product reviews
bullet Collection of 3000 ham links by WMD7D
bullet Everything for DX'ers by XE1BEF" (software, lots of antennas, digital modes, QSL, etc)
bullet HF radio propagation conditions/predictions here and here and here
bullet The DX Zone  (Amateur Radio, CB Radio, Short wave Radio Guide)
bullet Schematics and manuals of commercial ham radio gear
bullet Amateur radio call-sign prefixes (country codes) here and here
bullet AZMap (world map for antenna direction, distance, aurora, etc; freeware). A similar on-line version (more flexible but maps not as pretty) can be found here.
bullet Map-based QTH locator  here and here  and here (the last one also has distance caclulator).
bullet customize morse code ringtones for your portable phone -- free!

Yahoo Groups that I belong to:

bullet Softrock40  (SDR kit)
bullet Digital radio (digi modes)
bullet Feld Hell Club
bullet Analyzer IW3HEV (miniVNA antenna analyzer)
bullet Ham-antennas
bullet Hex-beam antennas
bullet Loop-antennas
bullet MixW (multi-mode software)
bullet MM-SSTV  (SSTV-freeware)
bullet ftp-widget  (SSTV image-upload freeware)
bullet Multi-PSK (multi-mode freeware)
bullet Ham Radio Deluxe (HRD/DM780 multi-mode freeware)

Last update: July 2008
©2005-2008 F. Dörenberg N4SPP


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