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We operate an HF and a VHF DX station in the Scottish Borders. You can find out more about the station by following the links over on the right of this section. Amateur Radio is a popular hobby practised by millions of enthusiasts in every country around the world. You can be an operator, a constructor, just a listener or all three. The choice is yours! "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. " - Albert Einstein, explaining radio
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Propagation It's important to know how sun activity and local weather will affect your signals and others. VHF William Hepburn - UK
VHF Propagation site - British
FM and TV Circle -
HF Space
Weather - Boulder WWV
- Solar
Terrestrial Dispatch - NOAA - Propagation and space weather info. NOAA 2 D-Region Absorption Prediction region absorption. |
Resources RigPix - Rig Mods - Locator Convertor - Monitor
Links List - RF
Ground advice - DXAtlas - Essential grey line and propagation mapping tools to download also Bandmaster Winlog32 -
Top logging software with great support to download DX - Info DX
Clusters - Collection of cluster sites for all bands showing
recently logged DX activity world wide. ON4KST - HF / VHF
DX clusters with real time info and chat rooms. UK Six Meter
Group - Home page. QRZ -
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Community Excellent - NG3K's resources page IRC - E-Ham - G3USF's -
Ebay UK - Ham Page Ebay USA
- Ham Pages eQSL
- Electronic confirmation Ultimate Ham Resource List
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Retail Waters and Stanton - On-line catalogue retailer M Lynch and Son - Retailer Nevada - On-line retailer MFJ - Boxes for everything Radio World - UK Retailer Radio Works USA - Home of quality Carolina Windoms and RF baluns DX Engineering - Lots of useful antenna stuff Array Solutions - Antenna System specialists International Radio - Filters Versatower - Masts and towers Vine - Antennas Etc Mauritron - Service manuals Moonraker - On-line shop Comtek Systems - Arrays Spiderbeam - For those 18m poles and special antennas |
Weather HF - Latest North Atlantic Satellite Weather Images - It's always a good idea to work out
i the station at the other end can hear you. Thunder and other
storms cause static which can obliterate your signal at the other
end of the HF radio path. USA
Weather Weather VHF - BBC UK Weather - At VHF local weather can mean extended signal paths far beyond normal conditions. Look for the end of a period of high pressure. If you want to do serious VHF DX. Go to the BBC Atlantic pressure chart each day and watch for the collapse of high pressure areas for VHF Tropo conditions. HF Beacons - Beacon Lists - Find out what the HF propagation is like to selected parts of the globe. Pick a beacon and tune in to see if a path is open. |