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Folded Dipoles for VHF/UHF Yagis  ^pop - Make your own VHF/UHF folded dipoles from aluminium tubing. Learn tips for folding yagi, softening the tubing, bending jig and make all waterproofing

Three or four foot box loop - Plans to build a three or four foot box loop for the AM broadcast band, will tune from 530 to 1710 kHz.

How to build a tuned loop antenna  ^pop - How can you vastly improve your Medium Wave reception? its quite simple really, all you need is 120 foot of wire, a few lengths of timber and an old tuning capacitor with which you can build the answer to every DX'ers prayers, a tuned loop antenna.

Simple dipole for your scanner - Construction of a simple dipole antenna suitable for use with a handheld scanner such as the AOR AR8000, and describes some of the benefits of using such an antenna

US Repair Sources - Sources for getting your antique radio fixed up just like new.

EU Sprint Contest - It's a nice DOS program to handle the EU Sprint Contest written by Peter, DL2NBU (tnx). Both the screen and most of the commands are very similar to CT by K1EA so the program will be real friendly. Use a standard CW interface (see below) to connect your computer to the radio and send CW from your keyboard. SPRINT runs on any IBM compatible computer (XT, AT) with MS-DOS 3.3 or higher, W95 and W98. The ZIP file includes an ASCII file in English written by the author with instructions.

DXCC Beam headings - Display a current DXCC list with beam headings centered on your location.

Penn-Ohio DX Society - Unaffiliated amateur radio group based in New Castle, Pennsylvania dedicated to having fun on the HF bands

Tri-County Ham Radio Club N. Texas - Serving Tarrant, Parker, Wise counties, and city of Fort Worth, Azle, Springtown, Boyd, Weatherford, Saginaw

HB9AFZ Web receiver in Switzerland - Web receiver of hb9afz-using icom pcr 1000 on weekends 0800-2000 utc.

Mikrocentrum web receivers - Choose from icom pcr 1000 or srt cr-91 communications receivers from Umea, Sweden

MDXA DXCC Beam Headings - Display a current DXCC list with headings centered on your location

TV transmitters in Europe - Frequency list of TV transmitter video carriers within the range of 48-85 Mhz.

KQ0RP Iowa QRP Club - Club formed to promote amateur radio low power operation, to hone operating skills, to improve building skills, and to introduce the hobby to prospective new amateur radio operators

Yaesu FTDX-5000 Manual Part 2 - Yaesu FTDX-5000 operating manual part 2

YourEQ Priority listing - Outdoor equipment and electronics - handheld, base, mobile VHF, UHF and CB radios. Uniden emergency scanners. FRS and now GMRS 2-way radios.

The Pirate Radio Watch - Here you can post your free radio logs or take a look whats on

Yagi-Uda - Design and optimize Yagi antennas. Ol GW Basic program for dos.

MobileLog Amateur Radio Mobile Logging - The MobileLog program is a specialty logging program designed for mobile amateur radio operators. It has been designed to allow quick entry of important information regarding QSOs. The software is primarily concerned with the logging of U.S. county information, which may be used to help work toward awards such as the USA-CA award for working all counties in the U.S.A. The data from this program may be imported into your general logging software. This sofware exports data in the ADIF (Amateur Data Interchange Format) and CSV (comma-seprated variable)

BeaconSee - BeaconSee shows you, in real time, worldwide HF band openings on your PC. Analyses the audio signals from your radio, which is tuned to the NCDXF IARU HF beacon network and shows you the signal strength received from each of the 18 beacon transmitters as a plot of frequency spectrum against time.

Psion ham software - Amateur radio programs to download, locator , log, etc... for Psion Aprs maps for PC (ui-view)

Kenwood TS-570D RCP-2 software - Download Kenwood's free radio control software for the TS-570 HF

WB0NNI Home Brew HF Amps and Tutorials  ^pop Priority listing - Tutorials and other information on designing and building hf amplifiers. Includes tube data and amplifier projects.

130 Watt Dummy Load - Video, how to build a 130 Watt Dummy Load for HF amateur radio

Mode J Desense Filter - This type of filter can be used in a Mode J satellite station (uplink on 2m, downlink on 70cm) to reduce the problem of the uplink signal desensing the receiver