Links

There are links here to other web sites covering most aspects of Amateur Radio.  If there is an amateur radio web site that you would like to see here, please let us know.  If a web site appears to be inactive, it will be crossed through like this, pending deletion from this page.

 

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Local Clubs & Societies

UK National Clubs & Societies etc.

International Clubs & Societies etc.

Magazines etc

QSLing (QRZ, Clublog, eQSL, LOTW etc.)

Various Aspects of Amateur Radio etc.   (Everything from Medium Wave DXing to Microwaves)

Amateur Radio Software

Suppliers

Antenna Construction Projects

UK and International Regulatory Organisations etc.

New UK Amateur Radio Licences from Ofcom

Ofcom Consultations

Weather

Poole & Surrounding Area

Other Links that may be of interest

Other Links recommended by Poole Radio Society Members

Local Amateur Radio Clubs & Societies (mainly in Dorset)

Bournemouth ATV Repeater Group

Blackmore Vale

Christchurch

Dorset RAYNET

Flight Refuelling

SCART (Amateur Television)

South Coast Repeater and Beacon Group

South Dorset

South Dorset Repeater Group

Wessex Repeater Group

Yeovil Amateur Radio Club

UK National Clubs & Societies etc.

Amsat UK

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)

G-QRP Club

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)

Worked All Britain (WAB)

International Clubs & Societies etc.

American Radio Relay League (ARRL)

Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC – mainly in German)

Irish Radio Transmitters Society (IRTS)

Lighthouse Society

World Slow Scan TV Club (WSSTVC)

10-10 International (10m)

Magazines etc.

Antennex (Antenna Web Magazine with archives)

CQ-TV (Amateur Television Magazine)

CQ Magazine

Dubus (VHF/UHF/SHF Magazine)

432MHz and Above EME Newsletter (Earth-Moon-Earth)

Monitoring Monthly (Ceased publication)

Practical Wireless

Radio User (Short Wave Magazine & Radio Active)

VHF Communication (VHF/UHF/SHF Construction)

Logs, QSLing etc.

Amateur Data Interchange Format (.adi log file format)

Clublog

E-QSL (Electronic QSL Cards)

HRDLOG

Logbook of the World (LoTW)

LoTW User List

LoTW User Guide to Download (by ZL2IFB)

QDure (on-Demand QSL Card printing and distribution)

QRZ.COM

QRZCQ.COM

International QSL Bureau (IARU)

Various Aspects of Amateur Radio

Amateur Television

British Amateur Television Society (BATC)

Narrow Band Television Association (NBTVA)

Awards

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)

DXCC

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)

International Grid Chase 2018

Islands on the Air (IOTA)

World Lighthouse on the Air (WLOTA)

Parks on the Air (POTA)

RSGB HF Awards

RSGB VHF/UHF/SHF Awards

Slovenia 30th Anniversary of Independence Award 2021

Summits on the Air (SOTA)

HuMPs Excluding Marilyns Award (HuMPS)

VHF/UHF Century Club (VUCC)

Worked All Britain (WAB)

World Castles Award (WCA)

World Wide Flora & Fauna (WWFF)

Contests – HF

ARRL (Mainly HF)

CQ WPX Contests (Prefix)  

DX Marathon

WW Digi DX Contest (FT8 & FT4)

Guide to Contest Terminology

RSGB HF Contest Committee

SM3CER Contest Calendar

WA7BNM Contest Calendar (Configurable)

Cabrillo Web Forms (Produce a Cabrillo file from paper log etc.)

Contests – VHF

RSGB VHF Contests Contest Committee

UK Microwave Contests

Practical Wireless Contests Web Site (144MHz QRP & 70MHz Low Power)

Data Modes (e.g. RTTY, Packet, PSK31, SSTV etc.)

British Amateur Radio Teledata Group (BARTG)

World Slow Scan TV Club (WSSTVC)

Propagation & Beacons etc.

Solar Activity Monitor

Current Solar Data

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)

VOACAP Quick Guide

HF Beacons

28MHz Beacons

6m Beacons

Reverse Beacons etc.

Hamspots (data modes)

PSKReporter (CW and many data modes)

Reverse Beacon Network  

10m (28MHz) Band

10-10 International

28MHz Beacons

6m (50MHz) Band

United Kingdom Six Metre Group (UKSMG)

6m Beacons

4m (70MHz) Band

4m (70MHz) Band

DX Cluster

DX Summit DX Cluster

DX Fun Cluster

DX Operations etc.

Forthcoming DX Operations

425 DX News bulletin

Daily DX

www.papays.com/opdx.html

http://www.iz5cml.it/dxschedule

DX Coffee

DX Newsletter

Les Nouvelles DX (in French)

Chiltern DX Club (CDXC)

Operating in Other Countries

Prefix Lists

Prefix Lists (Which country have you worked)

Ham Atlas (Maps and Pictures of each DXCC Entity)

Locators

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

Mapping your contacts

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)

Operating in Other Countries

Operating in Other Countries

Call Books

QRZ.COM

Buckmaster

Logs, QSLing etc.

Amateur Data Interchange Format (.adi log file format)

Clublog

E-QSL (Electronic QSL Cards)

HRDLOG

Logbook of the World (LoTW)

LoTW User List

LoTW User Guide to Download (by ZL2IFB)

QRZ.COM

QRZCQ.COM

International QSL Bureau (IARU)

Morse Code

Learn Morse Code (CW) Online

Learn CW with G4FON

Fists CW Club

QRP (Low power operating and home-construction)

The G-QRP Club

DF (Direction Finding)

British Top Band Direction Finding Association (BTBDFA)

Communication using Light (including Lasers)

UK Laser Communications

Microwaves

The world above 1000 MHz (G3PHO site)

UK Microwave Group

Microwave Museum

ON4KST Microwave Chat

Repeaters

RSGB Repeater Management Committee

Calculators

Feeder Loss Calculator 144MHz to 2400MHz

Dipole Dimensions

Satellites & Space

Amsat UK

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)

Keplerian Elements

Remote Image Group

4M-LXS Chinese Moon Orbiter – Presentation

4M-LXS Chinese Moon Orbiter – Technical Information

Short Wave Listening etc.

The British DX Club

DX TV etc.

The Medium Wave Circle

World DX Club

Recollections of BBC Engineering

UK Transmitter Details

Broadcast Television Reception (Analogue and Digital)

Winlink

Winlink (Global Radio E-Mail System)

UK and International Regulatory Organisations Etc.

International Amateur Radio Union (IARU)

International Prefixes etc.

International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Ofcom

Ofcom Consultations

Radio Communications Agency

Radio Licensing Centre

Gazette (Licence Changes etc.)

New UK Amateur Radio Licences from Ofcom

What you need to apply on-line

Applying on-Line

Frequently Asked Questions

Amateur Radio Software

Unless stated the software below is intended for PCs running windows

Antenna Modelling

MMANA-GAL

Circuit Modelling & Construction

KiCad (PCB Design & Production of geber files)

LTspice (Circuit Modelling)

Contest Logging

Super Duper (SD series) from EI5DI (now Freeware)

Minos (VHF/UHF/SHF Contests)

N1NM Logger + (Sophisticated contest logging program)

Digital Modes

Airlink Express (PSK & RTTY)

Digipan for PSK31/PSK63 etc.

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)

Echolink

Echolink

Integrated Logging & Data Modes

DX Lab & Winwarbler etc.

Logging

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

Morse Code

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)

Satellite Tracking Software

Orbitron

Slow Scan Television (SSTV) – “Analogue”

MMSSTV (Uses PC Soundcard)

Slow Scan Television (SSTV) – “Digital”

EasyPal (Download from VK4AES)

Suppliers

Local Suppliers etc.

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)

Antenna Suppliers

Aerial Parts of Colchester

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)

G-Whip

Goodwinch (winches for masts etc.)

Hexbeam

InnovAantennas (Yagis for hf and vhf)

Nigel Booth M0CVO (Wire Antennas and Baluns etc.)

PowAbeam Antennas (Yagis for hf, vhf and uhf)

Pro Antennas

Sandpiper

SOTAbeams (Antennas and accessories for portable operation)

Tom Brockman G4TPH (Magnetic Loops)

Tonna (F9FT vhf/uhf Yagis etc.)

Vortex Antennas

Wave Antennas (VHF/UHF designs)

Aerials & Television (Domestic broadcast antennas – lots of useful info)

Component Suppliers

J. Birkett

Bowood Electronic Ltd

CPC (Farnell)

JAB

CA Electro Components (RF Relays)

Maplin Electronic Supplies – Branches in Poole and Bournemouth

QuartSLab  (Crystals)

Power Magnetics (Iron Cores, Inductors & Transformers)

Rapid Electronics

Spiratronics (Wide range of components and hardware)

Tube Shop (Valves)

 

G3SEK’s UK Component and Tools Supplier List 

Kit Suppliers

Amateur Radio Kits (Indian kits supplier including boxes for BITX)

Bert Modderman PE1RKI (Microwave Amplifiers etc.)

Chris Bartram (Microwave System Components from Chris GW4DGU)

Cumbria Designs

Down East Mircrowave (vhf/uhf/shf)

Elecraft (Supplier of the K2 hf Transceiver Kit)

HF Signals

JUMA Amateur Radio Kits

Kanga Products (QRP)

Kits and Parts

Kit Radio Company

Kuhne Electronics (Microwave Components and Kits incl. DB6NT)

Lake Electronics

Microwave Committee Component Service (G3WDG)

Oak Hills Research

Quasar Electronics

QRP Labs

QRPproject

Radio Kits (Supplier of several popular kits)

Spectrum Communications (vhf Transverters & Pre-Amps & G2DYM Aerials etc.)

Vectronics

Walford Electronics

W6PQL (Microwave Sequencers etc.)

PCB Manufacturers

JLCPCB (Cheap low quantity PCBs produced from gerber file)

QSL Cards

fdsQSL (run by Geoff G8RCZ in Exeter)

LZ1JZ

UX5UO QSL Printing Service

Transceiver Manufacturers etc.

Alinco

Elecraft

Icom

Kenwood

Monitor Sensors (Transverters for 472kHz and 136kHz)

Noble Radio

Yaesu

Track Communications (Digital ATV Gear)

Diagrams, Manuals and Modifications etc.

Microphone Connections (Pin-outs for the main manufacturers)  

UK Amateur Radio Dealers

Martin Lynch (Staines, Surrey)

Moonraker (Woburn Sands)

Nevada (Portsmouth)

Waters & Stanton (Hockley, Essex)

Other Suppliers

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)

Antenna Construction Projects

EZ Hang (Sling Shot)

G7FEK Limited Space Antenna

G0CWT Magnetic Loops

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!)

Weather

5-Day Weather Forecast for Poole

UK 2-Day Weather Forecast with Pressure Map

European Surface Pressure  Map

European Satellite Picture

Poole & Surrounding Area

Welcome to Poole Dorset (Lots of Pictures and information about Poole)

Welcome to Poole (Pictures and events in Poole etc.)

Lulworth Army Firing Ranges

Other Links that may be of interest

Bournemouth Natural Science Society and Museum (BNSS)

Poole Kite Fliers

Marconi Calling (Marconi History)

Marconi in Oxford

Centre for The History of Defence Electronics (CHIDE)

Purbeck Radar

Royal Signals Museum (Blandford)

World Mains Electrical Plugs, Television, Phone/Modem Standards etc.

Units of Measure (Imperial to Metric conversion etc.)

The National Valve Museum 

G4UCJ's Radio Website 

Service Information for various AVOs 

Algo Instruments (sales and repairs of AVOs etc.)

National Valve Museum

American Radio History (includes many magazine archives)

Other Links recommended by Poole Radio Society Members

Grapevine Tuscan Culture