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Ham Radio For Dummies

Ham Radio For Dummies


By H. Ward Silver

ISBN: 978-0-7645-5987-7
Format: Paper
Pages: 384 Pages
Pub. Date: April 2004

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From here, you can download and read the bonus chapter that we've made available in Adobe PDF format. If you don't already have it, you'll need Adobe Reader to view this file. 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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