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Antenna Trimming Chart - Use this chart as an aid in trimming the length of your antenna. It gives you an idea of the change in wire length needed to move antenna resonance a specific number of KHz.

K9AY Flag Pennant Ewe - Elongated Terminated Loops, usage and details by K9AY Lewallen

Magnetic loop antenna 10-30 MHz - magnetic loop for 10-30 MHz, using acetal rod former, aluminium foil conductor and copper-clad epoxy board capacitor

K-FACTOR Table & Chart  ^updated - Determine the K-Factor used as a multiplier when constructing half-wave antennas.

Greek Lighthouse Award - Greek Lighthouse Award has been instituted by the Northern Greece Contest Team and will be issued to any Ham Radio operator or SWL for QSOs with (or reports from) amateur radio stations operating from Greek's lighthouses.

6 Meters and Up: SSB/CW DX - This is a group for amateur radio operators interested in VHF and UHF SSB and CW, primarily in North America. It's intended for general discussions of V/UHF operation, beacon information, reports of tropo and Es openings and anything else of interest to V/UHF DX enthusiasts

Eliminate QRM from 6 meters band - The circuit described below will substantially reduce or completely eliminate interference from almost any local source whilst leaving the wanted signal relatively unaffected, even though it may be on the same frequencey by TREVOR, G3ZYY

Sound Card Packet - This amateur radio web site explains how to use the AGWPE utility program to send and receive packet (a digital data mode) using the sound card of your PC instead of a traditional TNC (Terminal Node Controller), a radio modem.

Geophysical Alert Message wwv.txt - Broadcast via WWV and WWVH at 18 and 45 minutes past the hour. This message is updated every 3 hours. Reports current Solar-terrestrial indinces, Solar Flux, A-index, K-Index, forecast for space weather storms. Prepared by the US Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Environment Center

Today's Space Weather - SEC - Another interesting reports page with plots and graphs of solar flux. Interesting resources provided here includes, Solar images, a text 3 day solar geophysical forecast, a 3-days Solar X-Ray flux plot updated evety 5 minutes, The Satellite Environment Plot, combines satellite and ground-based data

Hourly STD Solar and Geophysical Report - Boulder K-Indices, Planetary K-Indices, 10.7 cm solar radio flux updated every 30 minutes by Canada's Space Weather center

Near-Real-Time F2-Layer Critical Frequency Map - This map can be used to determine the frequencies that will always be returned to the Earth. Transmitted frequencies higher than the indicated contours (which are given in MHz) may penetrate the ionosphere, resulting in lost power to space. The map shows the radio auroral zones as green bands near the northern and southern poles.

IPS - HF Systems MUF maps and prediction charts - These pages provide general propagation advice for HF communicators. Information available includes inferred global propagation conditions, real time HF fadeout coverage charts, regional ionospheric vertical MUF maps and Hourly Area Prediction charts for Astralia and Asia, Europe and North America

BEIJING ELJVT - Sell the China made electron tubes over a long period of time, the vacuum tubes/electron valves/Power tubes/Audio Tubes/Thyratrons/Magnetrons and accessories, the tube sockets, the vacuum capacitors, high voltage ceramic capacitors, aluminum electrolytic capacitor.

NEC4WIN - NEC4WIN is a 32 bits commercial antenna simulation software based on MININEC3 developed by the Naval Ocean Systems Center in the 70s and 80s. It runs under Windows and can be used to simulate, analyze and optimize wire antennas, beams, verticals, etc. NEC4WIN has limitations. They are the same as Mininec3 on which the engine is based.

BCmap - This program shows a polar-projection map of the northern part of Region 2 (Western hemisphere) with the patterns of all AM radio stations in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Cuba, on a specified frequency, with the map centered on a user-specified "home" location.

PKTerm for windows - Pkterm 99 is a host mode terminal program for the timewave and aea tncs. it works with windows 95, 98, and nt.

PicturePacket - A Windows95/98/NT control program for Terminal Node Controllers. In its Lite mode it's all the software many packet users may ever need, and it's frees

VT100/ANSI terminal and Telnet client - Online is a VT100/ANSI terminal emulator and Telnet client for Palm OS organizers. Connect to Unix systems, configure routers and reprogram embedded computers.

GOLog Contest Logger for Palm OS - GOLog is a contest logger for Palm OS and was written with the QRP field contester in mind. GOLog is small (about 48K) and simple and should run on any handheld computer running Palm OS version 3.0 or newer.

VX-1R Controller Software - This is Freeware programming software for the VX-1R

WINRAD by I2PHD  ^{updated  pop} - Winrad is a free software program designed to implement a Software Defined Radio (SDR), meant to run under Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Windows 98SE. In a nutshell, it accepts a chunk of up to 96 kHz coming from a complex mixer in form of two signals, I and Q, fed to the PC sound card.

WinTick - WinTick is a utility program aiming at synchronizing the PC clock to Universal Coordinated Time (UTC). It was originally developed for accurate satellite tracking, running on the taskbar while a NASA-compliant tracking program (SGP4 or SDP4) is running in the foreground.

2 KW Power Amplifier for 2 meters - 2 KW power amplifier for 144 MHz using the GU84B tube by Paul Chominski WA6PY

UHF dummy Load - A very simple and effective dummy load can be made from several resistors, a connector, and a small metal plate or piece of PC board stock.