Ham Radio/Clubs/Europe/UK
The Aylesbury Vale Radio Society G4VRS Hosted by Aynet M0PSH Phil Blythe

Software/Radio Programming
Yaesu FT-450, FT-950, FT-2000, FT-5000, FT-9000 backup and restore Program for win32, requires login to Yahoo Groups

Links to dealers and manufacturers of telescopic antenna masts, poles, antenna mounts. Hard to find masts, expecially designed to support antenna for portable, emergency or field day use

Operating Aids/Grid Squares
Convert to/from maidenhead gridsquare, decimal or DMS long/lat. Find your locator on smartphones via gps in your browser!

Antennas/2M
This is a super stable 50OHm direct feed Yagi for 2m using 1/2 inch tube and a real easy build.

Ham Radio/Blogs/Canada
Amateur radio makes the world a much smaller place.

Antennas/80M
Prototype of a 80 meters helical antenna on a 6 meters squid pole by VK2TTL

Internet and Radio/Online Receivers
Live reception of PI6TEN 10 meter FM repeater from the Netherlands.

Radio programming cables homebrew projects. Build CAT cables or interface rig cables

Antennas/Baluns
A pdf document about the dual ferrite bead 4:1 balun, some preliminary measurements

Ham Radio/Exams/Study Guides
Collection of several documents to help you study for your Amateur Radio license exam at W5JCK

Operating Modes/PSK31
Adjusting audio output of your soundcard to obtain a perfect PSK signal from your transmission. A project to help you tuning your PSK31 emission.

Operating Modes/PSK31
Generating clean PSK signals and helping others to correctly tune their souncard output, as well as giving proper RSQ reports by identifying signal quality by N1NKM.

Operating Modes/PSK31
This site is devoted to promoting RSQ as an improved signal reporting system for narrow band digital modes and to demonstrating its application to the popular PSK31 mode.

Antennas/Wire
Bobtails are vertical arrays that look like the letter "E" turned 90° clockwise onto its tails. They have 3 quarter wave vertical elements and are one wavelength long. The Half Square is a shortened Bobtail- it has 2 quarter wave vertical elements and is a half wave long.

Robert Macedo, KD1CY, ARES SKYWARN Coordinator and Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator, provided this report on the afternoon of Friday, September 3:

The following is a situation report from the Eastern Massachusetts ARRL Section on Hurricane Earl. The good news is that Earl has weakened to a Category-1 hurricane. The other good news is that its track remains on target with ...

 The Air Force Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) organization has a new “interim” Chief. Outgoing USAF MARS Chief Allen Eiermann, K3LSR, retired at the end of May and was replaced by TSgt Jason E. Sandifer. Sandifer is a systems manager stationed at the Air Force Network Integration Center (AFNIC) at Scott AFB, Illinois. AFNIC is the headquarters of the national Air Force MARS organization...

Over this past week, four new sunspot groups appeared. Group 1101 was already in place since August 24, and 1102 emerged on August 29. On September 1, two new sunspot groups -- 1103 and 1104 -- appeared, and on September 2, sunspot group 1105 arrived. Through August 26-September 2, the daily sunspot numbers were 23, 11, 11, 25, 28, 27, 51 and 52 and these same eight days saw the relative total ...

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ makes plans for emergency communications of the hurricane variety.  

As I write this, Connecticut and the Northeast are looking down the barrel of Hurricane Earl. It looks like my neck of the woods will only receive a glancing, but powerful blow, but points south and east of us will not be so lucky.

Having lived through direct hits fro...

Antennas/Stealth
An Attic version for limited space applications by NW9T