Useful Links



-------- Active Nodes and/or Rooms --------

  • C4FM Maps


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    -------- Antenna building --------

  • Build your own Hex Beam


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    -------- APRS --------

  • Automatic Packet Reporting System by Bob Bruninga, WB4APR (SK)
  • WB4APR's Site Map(SK)
  • APRS SMS Gateway
  • WL2K via APRS - Available Commands
  • Pin Point APRS
  • YAAC Yet Another APRS Client


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    -------- Cables & Coax --------

  • Power and Attenuation (dB) on common cables
  • Comparison Chart of typical cables with hardline cables


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    -------- Callsign Lookup --------

  • ARRL - FCC License Data Search
  • QRZ.com
  • QRZCQ.com
  • FCC - Advanced License Search
  • Ham Info - License Map


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    -------- Clubs --------

  • W5SLA Ozone Amateur Radio Club (Slidell, LA)
  • SELARC Southeast Louisiana Amateur Radio Club, Inc. (Hammond, LA)
  • SELARC ARRL Club Info
  • Livingston
  • Baton Rouge ARC
  • K5ARC Ascension ARC Facebok (Gonzales, LA)
  • K5ARC Ascension ARC Website (Gonzales, LA)
  • Mississippi ARRL
  • Thibodaux Amateur Radio Club (Thibodaux, LA)
  • KC5DR Louisiana Delta Radio Association Facebook (Jackson County, MS)
  • KC5DR Louisiana Delta Radio Association Website (Jackson County, MS)
  • JCARA Jackson County Amateur Radio Association (Jackson County, MS)
  • Jefferson Amateur Radio Club (Jefferson, LA)
  • Gulf Coast Link System (WB5GCL)
  • SARNET: Statewide Amateur Radio Networking in Florida
  • Check Club Memberships
  • PEARL League (Mississippi)


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    -------- CW, Morse Code, Keys, and Keyers --------
    Click for CW Page

    Online Courses
  • Long Island CW Club
  • CWops

    • CW Learning Aids
  • Morse Code Ninja
  • MorseCode.World
  • Morse Camp
  • eBook to CW MP3's
  • Head Copy Proactice
  • ARRL - Learning Morse Code

    • Calendar
  • CW Contest Calendar

    Clubs
  • SKCC (Straight Key Century Club)
  • ICW (International CW Council)
  • NAQCC (North American QRP CW Club)
  • FISTS Club (International Morse Preservation Society)
  • QRQcw
  • Sideswiper Net - SSN

  • Keys
  • Begali Keys
  • N3ZN Keys
  • 9A5N Solid State CW Paddles

    • Tools
  • Dynamometer Force Gauge, 5-50 g
  • Cut-Numbers



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    ------------------------ DIY ------------------------

  • EasyEDA.com - Circuit Board Builder


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    -------- DX Clubs --------

  • True Blue DXers Club


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    -------- FCC RF Exposure Regulations --------

  • 2023-05-05 ARRL Helps Radio Amateurs Comply with New RF Exposure Evaluation Rules
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  • RF exposure history
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  • RF Exposure Calculator
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  • Calculator Parameters
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  • the Station Evaluation


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    -------- Frequencies --------

  • Band Plan from ARRL
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  • Calling Frequencies from Fort Myers ARC


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    -------- Groups --------

  • ARRL Louisiana Section


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    -------- HF Stuff --------

  • LoTW - Installing or Upgrading TQSL
  • GridMapper by QRZ
  • HRDLOG.net
  • Grid Square Locator
  • Find your Magnetic Declination


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    -------- QSL Cards --------

  • QSL Card Creator
  • KB3IFH QSL Cards
  • CustomQSL.com
  • AERIAL Printing Concepts
  • Paper Weight Guide
  • Red River Paper


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    -------- Hotspots --------

  • SharkRF
  • Pi-Star
  • Zimmerman Board
  • Rogers County Wireless Association


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    -------- HTML Stuff --------

  • HTML Background Colors
  • HEX Color Picker


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    -------- iOS Stuff --------

  • What iPad do you have?


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    -------- Legal Stuff --------

  • Gongress.gov - H.R. 1094 Proposed Amendment


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    -------- Logging Stuff --------

  • Ham2K Portable Logger
  • Log4OM2 - Log 4 Old Men


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    -------- Manufacture Radios--------

  • Yaesu
  • Icom
  • Kenwood
  • TYT (Programming Software)


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    -------- Manufacture Antennas --------

  • Commander Technologies
  • Alpha Delta - Model DX-CC


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    -------- Math --------

  • Antenna Factor and Gain Calculations


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    -------- Online Stores --------

  • DX Engineering
  • GigaParts, Inc.
  • hamcity.com
  • HRO - Ham Radio Outlet
  • MTC - Main Trading Company
  • universal radio inc.
  • Ham World, Inc.
  • Mouser Electronics

  • Custom Made Boxes
    • (Ordered replacement cardboard box for older Yaesu radio and they were very friendly in helping answer my questions in ordering. WI5ARD)

  • ABR Industries
    • (Order custom jumper cables)

    -------- Propagation --------

  • Radio Coverage Prediction using Longley Rice
  • Notes on Longley-Rice Propagation
  • Radio Mobile by VE2DBE
  • VA3XPR Creating RF Coverage Maps
  • Repeaters by State
  • DXMAPS
  • APRS Propagation
  • Spectrum Allocation
  • CQ/ITU Zones
  • Ham QSL Solar
  • SolarHam
  • GOES X-RAY FLUX (Check for spike if bands seem dead.)
  • HF Propagation Map


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    -------- Road Hazards --------

  • St. Tammany - Road Hazard Claim Reporting
  • DOTD - 511 - Road Closures for Louisiana
  • MDOT Traffic - Road Closures for Mississippi


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    -------- SDR / Software Defined Radio --------

  • WebSDR
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  • OpenWebRX
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  • Map of SDR Receivers


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    -------- SHARES / HSIN --------

  • SHARES HF Working Group
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  • SHARES Form 1
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  • CISA SHARES Home Page


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    -------- Signal Repert / RST --------

  • R-S-T on Wikipedia


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    -------- Software --------

  • Winlink Global Radio Email
  • VARA (HF, FM, SAT, Chat, and Terminal)
  • Ham Radio Delux
  • RT Systems (Radio Programming Software
  • Adobe QR Code Generator

  • GitHub Dashboard
  • GitHub Dashboard Software


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    -------- Spotter Stuff --------

  • CW Club RBN Spotter


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    -------- Test Equipment --------

  • Siglent SSA3021X 2.1G Analyzer
  • Rigol DSA800 Series Spectrum Analyzer
    • (RF Basics)
    (EMI Measurement)
    (EMC Pre-Compliance)
    (IoT Development)
  • RigExpert AA-600


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    -------- Tower Stuff --------

  • W3TX SuperBertha
    • (Just round out my friend N6UR had sold his tower to W3TX years ago. What a fun tower to climb and work on. WI5ARD)

    -------- Vanity Callsigns --------

  • Obtain a Vanity Callsign (W4ZT)
  • RadioQTH
  • Amateur Extra 7 Query tools (AE7Q)
  • Hamedata


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    -------- Water Well Stuff --------

  • Typical water well construction and terms


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    -------- Weather --------

  • WI5ARD Weather Station
  • AWC - Aviation Weather Center
  • Atchafalaya River - Flood Inundation Mapping
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis Dist., River & Reservoir Daily Report
  • NWS River Gauges and Forecasts
  • RiverGauges.com
  • myFOXHURRICANE
  • CWOP - Citizens Weather Observer Program
  • Windy
  • NWS Mobile EDD
  • NWS New Orleans Website
  • NWS New Orleans DDS Website
  • NWS New Orelans Tropical Page
  • NWS New Orleans Facebook
  • NWS New Orleans Twitter
  • NWS SKYWARN
  • NWS SKYWARN - Storm Report
  • NWS - Storm Prediction Center
  • NOAA National Hurricane Center Website
  • Blitzortung.org - Realtime Lightning
  • WeatherForYou.com
  • HamQSL.com
  • The Hurricane Watch Net


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    -------- Wires-X --------

  • The Bible
  • Automatic Logon in Windows


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