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Balun Theory  ^pop - The word balun means balanced-unbalanced: it's used to adapt a balanced device to an unbalanced one

EH antenna power lost considerations - Out of Balance Current or Longitudinal Mode Current in the Coaxial Cable causes radiation from the coax. But how large a proportion of the total power is radiated or lost from this Current?

Racal collection - Some of the superb equipment made by this company into the 1970's and 1980's

RadioActiv - Featuring Eddystone, Classic British receivers (a history from 1898 - 1973) and Hubble-Bubble a personal web page

BB&B Technical Amateur Repairs - Amateur Radio Repair resource since 1982. We repair all makes and models of Amateur Radio equipment, vintage to late-model

Bravo Bravo DX Club - Intern. DX Radio Group has worldwide members, founded 1980 offers lifetime membership

Radio Club Faraones Internacionales - Mexican CB radio club founded in 1984 in Las Vegas

EUDXF - The European DX Foundation (EUDXF) is the first and only all European Foundation to support DX activities. It is a non-profit organization established in 1986 in the German town of Bad Bentheim

CARMEN Caribbean Amateur Radio Meteorological Emergency Network - Volunteer amateur radio operators (Hams), have maintained a radio station WX4NHC at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami since 1980.

Ak-Sar-Ben Amateur Radio Club - The Ak-Sar-Ben Amateur Radio Club, Inc. of Omaha, Nebraska is a general interest amateur radio club. With nearly 300 members there is someone involved in every aspect of amateur radio. We make a special effort to participate in providing communications support for public service events, Field Day, and teaching classes for those who wish to obtain an amateur(ham) radio license or upgrade their license privileges. The club sponsors regularly scheduled Volunteer Examiners as part of the ARRL VEC program. The club also hosts a flea market in the fall and hosts an all area picnic in the spring. There is evidence of the club as far back as the 1920s and has a long history of community service and promotion of ham radio in the city, county and state. The current club was started in 1945 the club has been affiliated with the ARRL since that time The club has hosted the Midwest Division Convention in 1985 and in 1994. Tthe club has participated in Kidz Explore in Omaha which is attended by over 77,000 people. The AARC is also involved with the radio merit badge program for the Boy Scouts with several members being registered merit badge councilors. The club operates two repeaters under their KØUSA callsign, 146.940 and 224.940. Both repeaters are open for all licensed amateurs to use. The 146.940 repeater is home to Midlands ARES and Douglas County ARES nets.

Split Operations - When and How - An interesting guide on operating in split mode

Electronic Construction Tutorial - Everything you wanted to know about building stuff but were afraid to ask." This series was originally published in "73 Amateur Radio" between November 1997 and February 1998

WA2RQY manuals for sale - List of copies of original equipment manuals

Funkshop.com - German Ham radio dealer for hf radios by Icom Yaesu Kenwood Alinco and Alan

Radio New Zealand International - Radio New Zealand International is a Shortwave Broadcaster. Our broadcasts are beamed to the island nations of the Pacific but can also be heard in other parts of the world.

Radio Lithuania - Broadcasts to Western Europe on AM/FM and shortwave 9710 kHz, to Russia on shortwave on 9555 kHz, and to North America on shortwave on 9855 kHz.

Voice of Biafra International - Biafra nation

Kiwi Radio - New Zealand

Spy Stations and Cryptography - This article first appeared in the October 1998 issue of Monitoring Times

AEA - Wireless software - AEA Wireless Director Software Series turns PC's (running Windows 95/98/2000/ME or NT) into powerful tools that expand the use and power of SWR, Return Loss and Complex Impedance Analyzers.

QuickRecord - QuickRecord is a compact application for recording and playing sound on a Microsoft Windows PC. It works on Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, and XP. Recording and playing back directly to and from disk files, QuickRecord 2 maintains the simplicity of the standard Windows Sound Recorder applet but without the restrictions.

RoMac 10 Band Equalizer - 10 Band DSP Equalizer for Ham Radio, requires Win 98 or higher, 128 MB, 16 bit sound card.

GNPDB - The program GNPDB is intended to display the ILGRadio broadcast database. Requires MS Windows 95,98,2000,XP.

2m Band VHF antenna pre-amplifier - Homebrew pre-amp for 144-146 MHz amateur band and OSCAR Satellites, using BF981 Dual-gate MosFet. Gain ~15 dB, NF=1dB.

144 MHz preamplifier with BF981 - Design of a preamplifier for 144 MHz with 1 dB NF and 23 dB gain using BF981. This amplifier is using a low cost silicon MOSFET (BF981 from Philips) to give more than 20 dB gain with around 1 dB noise figure on 2 meter.