Bonus Chapter
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Here is an FM Radio Feature Comparison Table for your use as well in Microsoft Word format.
Web Resources
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:
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:
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:
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
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