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PMR 446
Updated 18th May 2008

www.nervouscyclist.org - Adventures of a tecnobuff cyclist including a PMR 446 based cycle alarm.

Delboys 446 Forum - Lots of 446 info, and 70cm conversions.

446 User Forum - 446 Forum, and PMR eQSO.

Ham Radio In The News
Updated 18th May 2008

Hamming It Up at Radio Meets

Licences and Courses
Updated 18th May 2008

Sample Licence

DSP and Digital Radio
Updated 18th May 2008

SDR-14 - The SDR-14 is a 14-bit software defined radio receiver. It offers a broad range of spectrum analyzer and demodulation capabilities.

SDRadio - Software Defined Radio, Two Tone Tester (T3), and other digital projects.

Texas Packet Radio Society - DSP-10 2 Meter Software Defined Transceiver Kit (IF).

Universal Software Radio Peripheral - Open Source Radio Project.

DDS
Updated 18th May 2008

Digital Signal Generator

DDS VFO - From Ham Radio India

SDR on a budget
Updated 18th May 2008

M0KGK - SDR Sound card comparison

WB6DHW Kits - Si570 PLL Board.

Yahoo Softrock group - Support for the range of Softrocks.

Softrock radio - The mission is to assist SoftRock users with information on how to acquire, setup, troubleshoot SoftRock radios and similar radios.

DSPGuru - Articles how Quadrature signals work.

PowerSDR - Rocky software.

Kits, Modules and Mods
Updated 5th September -2008

Frequency Counter - Great and inexpensive digital dial, available in various kit forms.

KC0WOX's Homebrew Video Heaven - Videos and Notes on Bitx 20 construction.

Ham Gadgets - USB Radio Interface and other great kits.

Kanga USA - Kitlets and Modules.

Hendricks QRP Kits - Great range of Kits including the Firefly.

http://www.mods.dk/ - Tips, tricks and modifications of HAM rigs, HAM modems, etc.

Walford Electronics - Home of the Midney and many other great QRP Kits.

Ten-Tec - HF / VHF transceivers and kits.

Kit Link List

Small Wonder Labs - PSK31 TRX Kits.

The Toriod King - Toriods and the famous MultiPIG+ all band CW Transceiver.

Kit's Clocks and Keys

Radio Hacking
Updated 18th May 2008

The Super Drug SW Radio - 10 Band radio with frequency counter, lots of ideas.

Component Suppliers
Updated 18th May 2008

Nightfire Electronics - SMD parts and kits

Jab Electronics

Sycom (Toroids)

Harrison Electronics

Digikey

Radio Dealers
Updated 18th May 2008

Worsley Communications

Garex Electronics (PMR and Spares)

QRP
Updated 18th May 2008

W0PWE QRP Home Built Station - SS20, Keyer, Rockmite.

W0CH QRP Links Page

The Original Tuna Tin

Tuna Tin Kit - In a Tuna tin, of course.

QRP Circuits
Updated 18th May 2008

http://www.qrp4u.de/index_en.html

KM5CW's QRP Ham Radio Fun

Home Brew CW Projects
Updated 3rd October 2007

Smooth clickless CW sidetone

Simple Code practice oscillator

555 based Code practice oscillator

K3NG keyer - PIC based keyer and frequency counter

K8 keyer - PIC based keyer

DL4YHF - PIC Keyer

G0UKB - PIC Koch CW Tutor

Home Brew
Updated 23th July 2007

Converting a computer PSU

Twin T oscillator

Home Brew Your Own Inductors (Coils)

Manhattan Madness and 2n2 rigs

A Short Guide to Harmonic Filters

EI9GQ Home Brew Site

Altoid Speaker Cabinets

Compressor Kit

The Amazing All Band Receiver

The New Regulations For Lead Free

Crystal Sets

CRYSTAL LADDER FILTER SIMULATION WITH SPICE

Homebrewing From Japan - 430, 6M SSB and a lot else besides.

Amateur Radio Homebrewing - From IK3OIL

Organising a Homebrew Project - Sound advice!!

Harrys Home Brew Site - A vast collection of circuits and ideas.

Peter Parkers Projects

Graham Knott - Basic electronics, design build and test course.

S56AL Amateur Radio - Great Home Brew including a splendid frequency counter.

How to make really really good homemade PCBs

Build your own capacitance meter

Build your Spectrum Analyser

Scope Guide - Great introduction to scopes

Hans Summers Site - Great site, vast range of projects, including a binary frequency counter!

NT7S - Home of the Willamette 20

Mag Loops
Updated 12th June 2007

GM1SXX - On Magnetic Loop Antennas

Magnetic Loop Antenna

General
Updated 12th June 2007

The Amazing Online Flea Market - From G3CWI.

www.qrz.com - Call sign lookup

The Amateur Radio Code - Should be on the wall of every shack.

EHam Site - Great equipment reviews.

Internet Linking
Updated 12th June 2007

Internet Radio Linking Project

IRLP Procedures and Info

Repeaters
Updated 12th June 2007

http://www.coldal.org/repeater.htm - Repeater overview.

The RSGB Repeater Official List

Find your nearest repeater

Circuits
Updated 5th September 2008

The Datasheet Archive - Search engine for electronic component datasheets.

More Manuals and Mods

"Brick Wall" Audio Filter design

Project Notebook (wb3gck)

Great List Of Circuits

Dummy Loads
Updated 5th September 2008

Dummy Load and RF Power Meter

Dummy Load with Simple RF Power Meter

ATU and Baluns
Updated 5th September 2008

T-Network Tuner Simulator

Simple QRP 1-1 Balun

Homebrew Z-Match Transmatch (Craig LaBarge, WB3GCK)

A Simple and Flexible Tuner for QRP (Craig LaBarge, WB3GCK)

G3VGR Z-Match ATU

W5JH Z-Match

Z-Match: An Update Charlie Lofgren, W6JJZ

End Feed Halfwave and Matching Unit

Operating Mobile
Updated 5th September 2008

Bluetooth Rig Control

Bicycle Mobile Hams of America

W9XS Bicycle Mobile

HF Pack

Maidenhead distance calculator

Contesting
Updated 5th September 2008

RSGB HF Contest Site

Contesting Online Calendar

Awards
Updated 12th June 2007

Castles and Stately Homes On the Air

Worked All Britain

DX
Updated 12th June 2007

DX-Summit

Tutorials / Reference
Updated 4th September 2008

ESD protection

All about circuits

Beginners guide to electronics

DBM - Volts - Watts Table

Crystal Radios To SSB - A Guide to Building an Amateur Radio Station

Great notes on LT Spice

Electronics Education Supersite

Old technical books (Pre 1964)

The origin of the term Ham?

Radio Antenna Engineering - Classic antenna text, free download

RF Cafe - Great selection of articles and calculators

Antennas - Great selection of articles

Comprehensive list of tutorials on radio and electronics

Listing of tutorial sites

US Goverment introduction to the fundamentals

Selection of Technical Tutorials on Mixers, Phase and RF principles

Analogue RF Design Resources

Five questions about resistors

Circulating Currents

Modeling skin effect in SPICE

Scope Tutorial Part 1

Scope Tutorial Part 2

QRO
Updated 12th June 2007

500w Linear using IRF510's

More Home Brew
Updated 12th June 2007

Your First Home Brew

Total Home Brewing Information

All About Home Brew

Beer Quotes

Beer Recipe Calculator

Ask The Brewswami

SWR
Updated 12th June 2007

Resistive SWR Bridge - How it works

Clubs and Organisations
Updated 12th September 2008

Flying Pigs QRP Club - UK Chapter

Flying Pig QRP Club

Public Houses On The Air

Stevenage and District Radio Club

Stevenage and District Scouts

G QRP Club

QRP Amateur Radio Club International

RSGB Site

Adventure Radio Society

New Jersey QRP Club - Many Projects (Including Digital).

The First Class Operators Club - FOC is not an award, it is a goal.

The Second Class Operators Club - Competence is tolerated, but not encouraged.

OFCOM

Naturist Amateur Radio Club

Campaign For Real Ales

News Groups and Online Discussion Groups
Updated 12th June 2007

M3WEB Group

UK Radio Amateur Group - With a focus on M3 and 2E calls.

Rec.Radio.Amateur.Homebrew

Rec.Radio.Amateur.Antenna

TV
Updated 12th June 2007

British Amateur Television Club

http://www.nbtv.org/ - Narrow band televison.

http://www.qsl.net/g4hbt/sstv.htm - Slow scan televison.

Satellites
Updated 12th June 2007

The Remote Imaging Group

Antenna
Updated 23rd January 2003

Xnecview - For visualizing the input and output files of the NEC antenna simulation software.

Rattailantenna.com

Build your own Rubber Ducks

AC6V's Home Brew Antennas Links

W5DXP's Home Brew Antennas

W4RNL's Antenna and Ham Notes" - A vast collection of information.

Antenna Analysers
Updated 12th June 2007

Mini VNA

Rainbow Tuner

Micro 908 Antenna Analyser

N2PK VNA

N2PK VNA Yahoo Group

Packet / APRS
Updated 16th May 2006

Open Tracker

APRS Tiny Tracker

Micro TNC, tracking and packet software.

Elecraft K2, KX1
Updated 12th June 2007

Elecraft - Home of the legendary K2.

K2 A Rig For All Seasons

Story of the KX1

K2 Link Page

K2 Mailing List Archive - Everything about the K2 in a searchable archive.

Upgrading The SSB Filter

Palm Key

Kenwood TH-7E
Updated 12th June 2007

Kenwood TH-F7E - Manuals and Mods

Build your own Programing Cable

Yaesu FT-857
Updated 12th June 2007

FT-857 Mods and info

FT-857 Yahoo Group

Link Lists
Updated 12th June 2007

http://www.101science.com/amateurradio.htm

G7KPF - UK Amateur Radio Links (Over 1100 UK Links!)

Morse Code
Updated 12th June 2007

The Solid Copy CW Group

Morse code beats TXT

Morse code seems to be the communication method that just won't die. (BBC)

Morse Training Software From G4FON (Koch Method)

ARRL Morse Practice MP3 Files

Morse Code Practice Page

The Morse Codians (Real Audio)

The Art & Skill of Radio Telegraphy (PDF)

K3WWP's CW Links

4 Metres
Updated 12th June 2007

The Four Metres Yahoo Group

The Four Metres Website

A Simple 4M Dipole

Four Metres Transverter Kit

6 Metres
Updated 12th June 2007

6M Beacons

10 Metres
Updated 12th June 2007

10 10 International Club

Finding Activity on 10M

Introduction to 10M

Radio Weather!
Updated 12th June 2007

Real time display of lightning discharges across Europe

Near Realtime MUF Map

Software
Updated 1st November 2007

Find your QTH grid square

Audacity - Soundcard base frequency analyser

G4FGQ's Software Antenna Design Programs

Smith Chart Calculator

QTH Locator

WinLog32 - General purpose logging software, with a definite slant on DX'ing for both HF and VHF, including tracking various awards programs e.g DXCC, IOTA, WAZ etc. Recommended

DXLab - Better DXing through software.

Ham Radio Deluxe - CAT, Logging Mapping and much more.

Toriod Calculator

G4ZFE - MySQL / PHP Logbook.

LT Spice 3 simulator

PIC Development
Updated 12th June 2007

Beginners Checklist

Hagtronics - Various radio related PIC projects

Linux Software
Updated 20th November 2009

Xanalyser - Soundcard based spectrum analyser.

Linux Ham Shack - Live CD boot - Knoppix Linux with loads of Ham software to try.

Baudline - Soundcard based signal analyser.

PMR Kit
Updated 29th August 2007

Philips Mobile Radio Collection

Tetra Communications

GWM Radio

Atlanta Comms PMR Specialist

Simple CTCSS tone encoder

Events
Updated 12th June 2007

Burning Ham - Burning Man Special Event Station Nevada-7-Burn, From Black Rock City Nevada. Dragging Amateur Radio on to the Playa

Radio Related Places To Visit
Updated 13th June 2007

Lizard Marconi Wireless Station Cornwall - Special Event Station GB2LD

Poldhu Amateur Radio Club Cornwall

Porthcurno Telegraph Museum Cornwall

The National Army Museum London - Army Radio Sets

Firepower The Royal Artillery Museum London - Special Event Station

Bletchley Park Bletchley - Wartime Code Breaking

HMS Belfast London - RNARS Station

RAF Henlow Signals Museum Henlow

Operating
Updated 23rd January 2008

WON4KST The low band, VHF, UHF and microwave chats

Who is On The Air?

Good Operating Practice

Ham Radio Audio Files "Podcasts"
Updated 9th August 2008

This Week In Amateur Radio - Weekly worldwide amateur radio news, with a focus on the USA.

Solder Smoke - Amateur Radio experimenters discuss workbench radio projects.

RSGB News - Weekly News from the RSGB.

Resonant Frequency - An interesting intro to US ham radio and the many facets of the hobby, from propagation to disaster comms.

Amateur Logic - Video Podcast - More tech and entertainment for the radio and all purpose geek.

ARRL Audio News via MP3 - All amateur radio new from the ARRL.

Amateur Radio Newsline - Amateur Radio News Reports.

Bacon Bits Quarterly - Audio version of the Flying Pigs QRP Club Newsletter.

99 Hobbies - Listen to interviews with real radio operators, doing things on the radio that you may have never tried.

Long Delayed Echos - Ham radio related podcasts.

Radio Monitoring
Updated 12th June 2007

ACARS - Listen to ACARS a packet radio system for aircraft.

Promoting Ham Radio / Presentations
Updated 12th June 2007

Presentations - Radio related presentations for your club or organisation.

Radio Clubs - Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire
Updated 9th August 2008

DADARS - Derbyshire and District Amateur Radio Society.

SDAWARG - South Derbyshire and Ashby Woulds Amateur Radio Group.

NHARG - Nunsfield House Amateur Radio Group.

MARS - Mansfield Amateur Radio Society.

SNADARC - South Normanton, Alfreton & District Amateur Radio Club.

Buxton Radio Amateurs

BARS - Bolsover Amateur Radio Society.

Equipment
Updated 12th September 2008

Gamma Research HPS-1A - Perhaps the Sine qua non of portable power.