desk top band plan

Homemade 20 metre band Loft Dipole - An homebrewed dipole antenna for 14MHz

BVO2 Yagis - Yagi beam plans for 144MHz band

BV6 50 Mhz Yagis - Two Yagis for six meters band, one 1 wavelength long with a gain of 9.5dBd, and the other a 2.1wl model with a gain of 11.8 dBd.

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.

The Fence Fan Dipole - The Fence Fan Dipole a quick, easy and inexpensive multiband dipole antenna

G5RV Antenna  ^pop - The G5RV antenna, with its special feeder arrangement, is a multiband centre-fed antenna capable of very efficient operation on all hf bands from 3.5 to 28 MHz

Wire antenna  ^pop - The $4 Special all band wire antenna

Int. DX Contest Logging program - This program checks for duplicates (including partials), lists multipliers by band, provides a country lookup function, lists all contacts, writes the Cabrillo file format for log submission, and provides many current statistics.

G3USF's Worldwide List of 50MHz Beacons  ^updated - Comprehensive and daily maintained list of beacons in the 50MHz band

1SL1A Sealand DXpedition - 9-10 December 2000, Bands to be concentrated on will be 10m,15m,20m,40m,80m. WARC bands and 160 are being considered

IARU Region II HF Band Plan - This band plan was approved by the XIII General Assembly of Delegates of IARU Region II held at Porlamar, Margarita Island, Venezuela from September 28 to October 2, 1998

Great Yarmouth Radio Club - Promoting Amateur and CB Radio. Uk repeaters, World Prefix list, UK & U.S bandplans, HF World-wide beacons, Free Ad's, Web site awards

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

N1EU's Web Site - Original articles and useful hf links for contesting, TopBand 160M, FT-1000MP, Ten-Tec, SSB Audio, Mods and WriteLog

Digital Signals Sounds - Several files with examples of sounds from digital radio modes on short wave. PSK, RTTY Hellschreiber MFSK FSK Sitor

About Propagation - About ham band behaviours or propagation towards distant locations.

Minnesota DX Club - The MDXC has monthly meeting in the Twin Cites. Coverage all bands from LW to UHF. We also have Summer and Winter DXpeditions.

DX Radio - FM dx logs, MW carrier offset monitoring, lists of RDS codes in use in the UK, London pirate bandscan and much more from a London QTH.

Scanrec Scanner Recorder - Scanner Recorder (Scanrec) is a free audio recorder that is primarily designed to record speech. It has a VOX control that allows the user to save disk space when no sound is present in the signal. Since FM communications has such an effective squelch, the recorder works best with FM. HF ham bands and World Band radio have such a poor signal to noise ratio that the VOX gate on Scanrec might not be very easy to set.

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.

Voice Descramble - This program descrambles band inverted encrypted transmissions, usually found on VHF/UHF. It uses a NCO (numerical controlled oscillator) to re-produce the originally inverted audio band.

HamSphere - This is a Ham Radio Software Transceiver for Amateur Radio. Software works in Windows, Mac and Linux. HamSphere is a community for Ham Radio operators and other radio enthusiasts. Amateur radio equipment is not needed. The Transceiver uses java technology and covers all virtual Ham Radio and Amateur radio bands from 160 to 6 meters.

VHF Logging program - This program checks for duplicates (including partials), lists multiplier grids by band, lists all contacts, writes the Cabrillo file format for log submission, and provides many current statistics by N3FJP

K6XX Amateur Radio articles - An assortment of Amateur Radio-related technical articles written for the JUG, the newsletter of the Northern California Contest Club. Topics include unique but simple and useful radio modifications and accessories, and rig reviews.

Homebrew radio receiver  ^pop - Detailed plans of my homebrew receiver. Frequency coverage is from below 300kHz to 30MHz. Pictures, schematics, board layouts, parts lists and more can be found here.