Ham Radio For Dummies

1000 Miles Per Watt award
http://www.qrparci.org/arciawds.html

10-10 International Club:
http://www.ten-ten.org/

50 MHz Propagation Logger
http://dxworld.com/50prop.html

AC6V's Amateur Radio and DX Reference Guide:
http://www.ac6v.com

Adventure Radio Society:
http://www.arsqrp.com

Amateur Radio Webring:
http://g.webring.com/hub?ring=amateurradio

American QRP Club:
http://www.a-qrp.org/

AMSAT:
http://www.amsat.org

ARRL (American Radio Relay League):
http://www.arrl.org

ARRL "Contester's Rate Sheet":
http://www.arrl.org/contests/rate-sheet/about.html

ARRL Contest Calendar:
http://www.arrl.org/contests/calendar.html

ARRL DX Bulletin:
http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/dx

ARRL's callsign lookup service:
http://www.arrl.org/fcc/fcclook.php3

Band plans:
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/bandplan.html#17m

Bernie McClenny W3UR's Daily DX bulletin:
http://www.dailydx.com/clubs.htm

Buckmaster Publishing Hamcall:
http://hamcall.net/call

Calling frequencies:
http://www.ac6v.com/callfreq.htm

Callsign databases:

• http://www.vanityhq.com/
• http://www.qrz.com/directory.cgi
• http://www.wm7d.net/fcc/callsign.html
• http://www.amateur-radio.org/vanity.htm

Carribbean Emergency and Weather Net:
http://www.geocities.com/ttarsorg/Caribemergency.html

Common Q-signals:
http://www.qsl.net/oarc/oarc/q_signals.html

Contester's Rate Sheet:
http://www.arrl.org/contests/rate-sheet/about.html

Contesting.com:
http://www.contesting.com

CQ Magazine:
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.html

CQ VHF Quarterly:
http://cq-amateur-radio.com/ourother.html

CTCSS (Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System) or PL (Private-Line) code frequencies:
http://www.larkfield.org/staticpages/index.php?page=20041013203724870

CW (Morse code) abbreviations:
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/forms/fsd218.html

CW (Morse code) prosigns (combinations of characters that are sent as single characters without any extra spacing):
http://www.ac6v.com/morseaids.htm#PROSIGNS

Daily DX:
http://www.dailydx.com

DX Magazine:
http://www.dxpub.com/dx_mag.html

DX Summit:
http://www.dxsummit.com

eHam.net:
http://www.eham.net

Electrical Contractor's Safety Forum:
http://electrical-contractor.net/ESF/Electrical_Safety_Forum.htm

eQSL:
http://www.eqsl.net/qslcard/

FCC Web site's list of organizations that serve as Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (VECs) in the different regions of the U.S.:
http://www.arrl.org/w1aw.html#w1awsked

FCC's "License Search" Web page:
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchLicense.jsp

FISTS (International Society for Morse Preservation):
http://www.fists.org

Geoclock:
http://home.att.net/~geoclock

G-QRP club:
http://www.gqrp.com/

hfradio.org:
http://www.hfradio.org/propagation.html

High Speed Multimedia Radio (HSMM):
http://www.arrl.org/hsmm

Hurricane Watch Net:
http://www.hwn.org/

International Telecommunications Union Standard Phonetics and non-English DX Phonetics:
http://www.ac6v.com/dxphonetics.htm

International Telecommunications Union:
http://www.itu.int/home/

K3FN Air Mail Postage Service:
http://users.net1plus.com/ryoung/index.htm

K3TKS' QSL.net:
http://www.qsl.net

Logbook of the World (LOTW):
http://www.arrl.org/lotw/

Maritime Mobile Service Net:
http://www.mmsn.org

Meteor Scatter:
http://www.meteorscatter.net

Metric prefixes:
http://www.essex1.com/people/speer/large.html

National Contest Journal:
http://www.ncjweb.com

National Contest Journal:
http://www.ncjweb.com

Online licensing exams:

• http://www.aa9pw.com/radio/
• http://www.qrz.com
• http://www.eham.net

OPDX Bulletin:
http://www.papays.com/opdx.html

QRP Amateur Radio Club (QRP ARCI)
http://www.qrparci.org/

QRZ DX:
http://www.dxpub.com/qrz_dx_nl.html

QRZ.com:
http://www.qrz.com

RF Safety Calculator:
http://n5xu.ae.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/rfsafety.cgi

RSGB Propagation Page:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/por/psc.htm

Six Meter International Radio Klub (SMIRK):
http://www.smirk.org/

SKYWARN:
http://www.skywarn.org/

SM3CER's Contest Calendar:
http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal

Spaceweather:
http://www.spaceweather.com/

Sparks Telegraph Key Review:
http://www.zianet.com/sparks/

TAPR (Tucson Amateur Packet Radio):
http://www.tapr.org

The First Class CW Operator's Club (FOC):
http://www.firstclasscw.org.uk/

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/ham.htm

The national VEC organization Web sites that list test sessions:

• ARRL VEC Exams: http://www.arrl.org/arrlvec/examsearch.phtml
• W5YI VEC Exams: http://www.w5yi.org/vol-exam.htm
• W4VEC VEC Exams: http://www.w4vec.com/ar.html

The RF Connection:
http://www.therfc.com/

US Amateur Allocations subbands:
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/bands.html

US Frequency Allocation Chart:
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.html

US Post Office postage rates:
http://www.usps.com/common/category/postage.htm

VK4DX's Contest Calendar:
http://www.vk4dx.net

VUCC (VHF/UHF Century Club):
http://www.arrl.org/awards/vucc/

W1AW operating schedule:
http://www.arrl.org/w1aw.html#w1awsked

WA7BNM's Contest Calendar:
http://www.hornucopia.com/contestcal

Western Washington DX Club:
http://www.wwdxc.org

WF5E QSL Service:
http://www.qsl.net/wf5e/

Worldradio magazine:
http://www.wr6wr.com

Yahoo! Amateur and Ham Radio Directory:
http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Radio/Amateur_and_Ham_Radio

Yankee Clipper Contest Club:
http://www.yccc.org/Links/Contest_clubs.htm

YLRL (Young Lady Radio League)
http://www.ylrl.org