most wanted grid squares

A magnetic loop antenna for HF  ^pop - Able to cover all frequencies between 3.5 and about 10 MHz, the loop described here is directional, does not require a radial system, and stands just 1.8 metres tall. Most parts needed can be purchased at a hardware shop. The antenna can be put together in an afternoon and requires only hand tools to assemble. It should cost less than sixty dollars to build. by Peter Parker VK3YE ex VK1PK

Satellite Antenna Tips  ^pop - Tips that may be of help with the most important part of an amateur radio satellite station, the antenna systems.

Receiving loop for long waves - Cancelling out unwanted noise sources by DL3FP

Mauritron Technical Services - Service Manuals & Schematics, supplied for most types of equipment, Audio, TV, Video, Test and Ham Radio

1 EU 040 Ersoy - Turkish CB and HAM radio station operating from Rome. Mostly in Turkish with english summary.

Michigan DX Association - The Michigan DX Association serves Michigan and all areas with the most up to date DX and Contest Information.Membership is Free.

GenLog - Freeware Win98/NT/XP contest logging program, supports over 270 contests, Grid Square distance/heading routines, plus Grid maps by Dave Mascaro W3KM

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.

MM0BQM Priority listing - MM0BQM Homepage, lots of info on most soundcard data modes plus received SSTV picture gallery.

Nally radio towers - Radio towers with designs made specificaly for Amateur Radio operators, incorporating mounting plates for most common rotators with in tower structure allowing for safety in the use,and tilt over preventing the need for climbing towers during regular maintance

Maidenhead Locator Calculator - On-line calculator for Maidenhead locator calculations. It will work out your Maidenhead locator if you supply it with map references or calculate map references from your locator code.

CIA World Factbook - Country maps and flags and detailed informations about almost all countries of the world

Texas Packet Radio Society - TPRS invented TexNet, a network using a combination of wireline and wireless technology to link hams in most of the major population centers in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri

NOGA QRP club - Small, but growing, group of amateur radio enthusiasts, most of whom are within 90 miles of Atlanta, are interested in promoting the development of the branch of amateur radio known as QRP - building and operating low power transmitters, receivers and transceivers.

Mistery of LDE explained - The Five Most Likely Explanations for Long Delayed Echoes

Batteries America - Online store for most of ham radio transceivers including ADI Alinco Icom Kenwood Standard Uniden Yaesu Prume and radio shack

What can I hear on shortwave radio - Most people, when they think of "shortwave," think of shortwave broadcasting. There are lots of other services using the shortwaves, although not as many as there used to be.

XPWare - It offers support for AEA, Kantronics, SCS/Paccomm and Hal controllers. The program also offers full transceiver control for most of todays HF radios. The program also support DX Cluster monitoring

Squares - Grid Square and Distance calculator by w3km

Qgrid - Maidenhead grid squares calculator, and bearing and distance program

Eurowinlog - Eurowinlog is a ham logging software using worldmap zoomable capabilities. Handling 32400 gridsquares, dxcc, dxcluster, qsl printing and much more.

HyperLog - Full featured logging program available since 1989. Interfaces to most radio's, TNC's, and Callbooks. Runs under DOS and all "flavors" of Windows. Can run on 8088 or fastest Pentium machine. Easy to use with virtually unlimited database capability. Trial version. Program looks like being dismissed by hypersoft.

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

SkySweeper - Provides most advanced digital signal processing (DSP) functions to be used together with your HF receiver. All signal processing is done in your PC and no extra hardware is needed. HF/VHF rx & tx and analysis software introducing free advanced SkyBoost and MFSK16 modes!

VisualRadio  ^pop - Interactive Webradio Software under Windows for most receivers/transceivers available today.