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Bournemouth ATV Repeater Group
SCART (Amateur Television)
South Coast Repeater and Beacon Group
British Amateur Television Society (BATC)
British Amateur Radio Teledata Group (BARTG)
British Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (BARLS)
British Top-Band DF Association (BTBDFA)
British Young Ladies Amateur Radio Association (BYLARA)
CDXC - The UK DX Foundation (CDXC)
Narrow-bandwidth Television Association (NBTVA)
Radio Amateurs’ Emergency Network (Raynet)
Radio Amateur Invalid and Blind Club (RAIBC)
Radio Amateur Old Timers’ Association (RAOTA)
Radio Officers’ Association & Radio Officers’ Amateur Radio Society (ROA & ROARS)
Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB)
Radio Communications Foundation (RCF)
United Kingdom Six Metre Group (UKSMG)
UK Microwave Society (UKuG)
Vintage & Military Amateur Radio Society (VMARS)
American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC – mainly in German)
Irish Radio Transmitters Society (IRTS)
World Slow Scan TV Club (WSSTVC)
10-10 International (10m)
Antennex (Antenna Web Magazine with archives)
CQ-TV (Amateur Television Magazine)
432MHz and Above EME Newsletter (Earth-Moon-Earth)
Monitoring Monthly (Ceased publication)
Radio User (Short Wave Magazine & Radio Active)
VHF Communication (VHF/UHF/SHF Construction)
E-QSL (Electronic QSL Cards)
British Amateur Television Society (BATC)
Narrow Band Television Association (NBTVA)
K1BV’s DX Award Listings (Numerous Awards listed by country)
VA3RJ - Awards Listings (Numerous Awards listed by country)
Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society (ARLS) includes worldwide list
Beaches on the Air (BOTA)
CQ Magazine Prefix Awards Program (WPX)
English Castles Award (ECA)
English Lighthouse Awards (ELA)
European PSK Club (Numerous Awards for PSK contacts)
FT8 Digital Mode Club (Numerous Awards for FT8 contacts)
Gap Awards (Grid and Prefix Awards for Datamodes)
HuMPs Excluding Marilyns Award (HuMPS)
World Lighthouse on the Air (WLOTA)
Parks on the Air (POTA)
Slovenia 30th Anniversary of Independence Award 2021
HuMPs Excluding Marilyns Award (HuMPS)
World Castles Award (WCA)
World Wide Flora & Fauna (WWFF)
ARRL (Mainly HF)
CQ WPX Contests (Prefix)
WW Digi DX Contest (FT8 & FT4)
WA7BNM Contest Calendar (Configurable)
Cabrillo Web Forms (Produce a Cabrillo file from paper log etc.)
RSGB VHF Contests Contest Committee
Practical Wireless Contests Web Site (144MHz QRP & 70MHz Low Power)
British Amateur Radio Teledata Group (BARTG)
World Slow Scan TV Club (WSSTVC)
Tropospheric Ducting Predictions (for NW Europe)
Short-Path Propagation from the UK (G0KYA’s Predictions by Month/Band/Time)
Band Conditions (for UK)
RSGB Propagation Studies Committee
UK Solar System Data Centre (UKSSDC)
Hamspots (data modes)
PSKReporter (CW and many data modes)
United Kingdom Six Metre Group (UKSMG)
http://www.iz5cml.it/dxschedule
Les Nouvelles DX (in French)
Prefix Lists (Which country have you worked)
Ham Atlas (Maps and Pictures of each DXCC Entity)
Finding your QTH Locator (Grid Square) from a Map
Finding your QTH Locator (Grid Square) from a Map
Finding your QTH Locator (Grid Square) from a Callsign or Address
QSO Map (Mapping your contacts - upload .adi file)
Grid Mapper (Mapping your contacts - upload .adi file)
ADIF processor (produce .KML files for importing into Google Earth)
E-QSL (Electronic QSL Cards)
British Top Band Direction Finding Association (BTBDFA)
The world above 1000 MHz (G3PHO site)
RSGB Repeater Management Committee
Feeder Loss Calculator 144MHz to 2400MHz
Amsat On-Line Satellite Pass Predictions
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS)
Funcube (UK amateur Radio Educational Satellite)
Funcube Dongle (A 64MHz to 1.7GHz Software defined radio)
4M-LXS Chinese Moon Orbiter – Presentation
4M-LXS Chinese Moon Orbiter – Technical Information
Recollections of BBC Engineering
Broadcast Television Reception (Analogue and Digital)
Winlink (Global Radio E-Mail System)
International Amateur Radio Union (IARU)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Gazette (Licence Changes etc.)
What you need to apply on-line
Unless stated the software below is intended for PCs running windows
Super Duper (SD series) from EI5DI (now Freeware)
Minos (VHF/UHF/SHF Contests)
N1NM Logger + (Sophisticated contest logging program)
Airlink Express (PSK & RTTY)
Fldigi (various digital modes – versions for Windows, Linux and OS X)
Ham Radio Deluxe (Last Freeware Version from 2012)
JS8Call (weak signal keyboard-to-keyboard based on FT8 technology)
WSJT (weak signal modes including FT8, JT65, JT9, FSK441, ISCAT, and JT4 – versions for Windows, Linux and OS X)
ADIF Master (Useful utility for converting files to ADIF format and viewing ADIF files)
dxsoft (a range of logging programs etc.)
DF3CB Fast Log Entry (Useful for getting paper logs into a computer log)
G8PUT
(Log, Awards, WAB)
Log File Converters (various utilities including ADIF to Cabrilllo)
Log4OM2 (full-featured station logging with lots of integration capabilities)
Logger32 by Bob Furzer K4CY (Windows)
OmniRig (CAT interface software for Log4OM and PZTlog)
PZTlog (More sophisticated logging program than uLog by Charlie M0PZT)
uLog (Basic station logging program by Charlie M0PZT)
Winlog32 by Colin Morris G0CUZ
G4FON’s Koch Method Morse Trainer (requires Sound Card and Windows 95, 98, NT, XP)
Packet Radio
UZ7HO Soundmodem (requires Sound Card and Windows 98, XP. Vista or Windows 7)
UISS (Packet Radio Program for Windows)
RTTY
MMTTY (Uses PC Soundcard)
2Tone (an alternative to MMTTY)
MMSSTV (Uses PC Soundcard)
EasyPal (Download from VK4AES)
Shortwave Shop (New & Second-hand Equipment & Accessories)
Spectrum Communications (vhf Transverters & Pre-Amps & G2DYM Aerials etc.)
Maplin Electronic Supplies – Branches in Poole and Bournemouth
Aerial-Techniques (DX-Broadcast & Satellite TV gear etc.)
Screwfix (Tools and Fixings)
SP Wound Components Ltd (Transformers etc.)
Torberry (DC and Mains Connectors)
Alton
Antenna Arrays (compact hf and vhf antennas)
Antenna Engineering (hf verticals)
Antennas-Amplifiers (hf, vhf, uhf yagis etc.)
Barenco (brackets, clamps, connectors & feeder etc.)
Big Marts Brackets (brackets etc. made to order)
Ceecom (Dipoles for 6m, 4m, 2m etc.)
CUG Mast Solutions (masts)
G6NHG
(Microwave Antennas)
Goodwinch (winches for masts etc.)
InnovAantennas (Yagis for hf and vhf)
Nigel Booth M0CVO (Wire Antennas and Baluns etc.)
PowAbeam Antennas (Yagis for hf, vhf and uhf)
SOTAbeams (Antennas and accessories for portable operation)
Tom
Brockman G4TPH (Magnetic Loops)
Tonna (F9FT vhf/uhf Yagis etc.)
Wave
Antennas (VHF/UHF designs)
Aerials & Television (Domestic broadcast antennas – lots of useful info)
CPC (Farnell)
CA Electro Components (RF Relays)
Maplin Electronic Supplies – Branches in Poole and Bournemouth
QuartSLab (Crystals)
Power Magnetics (Iron Cores, Inductors & Transformers)
Spiratronics (Wide range of components and hardware)
Tube Shop (Valves)
G3SEK’s UK Component and Tools Supplier List
Amateur Radio Kits (Indian kits supplier including boxes for BITX)
Bert Modderman PE1RKI (Microwave Amplifiers etc.)
Chris Bartram (Microwave System Components from Chris GW4DGU)
Down East Mircrowave (vhf/uhf/shf)
Elecraft (Supplier of the K2 hf Transceiver Kit)
Kanga Products (QRP)
Kuhne Electronics (Microwave Components and Kits incl. DB6NT)
Microwave Committee Component Service (G3WDG)
Radio Kits (Supplier of several popular kits)
Spectrum Communications (vhf Transverters & Pre-Amps & G2DYM Aerials etc.)
W6PQL (Microwave Sequencers etc.)
JLCPCB (Cheap low quantity PCBs produced from gerber file)
fdsQSL
(run by Geoff G8RCZ in Exeter)
Monitor Sensors (Transverters for 472kHz and 136kHz)
Track Communications (Digital ATV Gear)
Diagrams, Manuals and Modifications etc.
Microphone Connections (Pin-outs for the main manufacturers)
Martin Lynch (Staines, Surrey)
Moonraker (Woburn Sands)
Nevada (Portsmouth)
Waters & Stanton (Hockley, Essex)
Antex (Soldering Irons)
Click Metal (Metal tubing etc.)
Cross Country Wireless (RF bandpass and notch filters)
Garex (PMR, Notch Filters etc.)
G3IBI (Rotator and Controllers spares & repairs)
G3LIV (Data Interfaces etc.)
Ham Goodies (Assorted accessories)
Ham Radio Signs (Tea shirts, Mugs, Shack Signs etc.)
J A Crew (Engineering Supplies)
RF Design / Continental Compliance (RF test and measurement products)
Roberto Zech DG0VE (Microwave
Transverters, Linears etc.) – Silent Key
Scientific Wire Company (Specialist Wires)
Small Battery Company (Small batteries by mail order)
Technofix (a diverse range of leads, connectors and accessories)
The DX Shop (Antennas, Feeder, Connectors, Amplifiers, Baluns etc.)
Timewave Technology (External Soundcards / Data interfaces & Controllers etc.)
W.H. Westlake (Feeder and Connectors etc.)
ZLP Electronics (CAT, Data and CW Interfaces)
EZ Hang (Sling Shot)
Hexbeam (Steve Hunt G3TXQ)
Hexbeam (MW0JZE)
Hexbeam (K4KIO)
Moxon Antenna Project (Moxon Antenna designs for 80m to 23cm)
Wire Antenna Designs (almost 150 different designs!)
5-Day Weather Forecast for Poole
UK 2-Day Weather Forecast with Pressure Map
Welcome to Poole Dorset (Lots of Pictures and information about Poole)
Welcome to Poole (Pictures and events in Poole etc.)
Bournemouth Natural Science Society and Museum (BNSS)
Marconi Calling (Marconi History)
Centre for The History of Defence Electronics (CHIDE)
Royal Signals Museum (Blandford)
World Mains Electrical Plugs, Television, Phone/Modem Standards etc.
Units of Measure (Imperial to Metric conversion etc.)
Service Information for various AVOs
Algo Instruments (sales and repairs of AVOs etc.)
American Radio History (includes many magazine archives)
Grapevine Tuscan Culture