Operating

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This page provides links and information about HF, VHF (soon) and UHF (soon) operating.

QSL’ing

ARRL 8th Area Incoming QSL Bureau
ARRL Outgoing QSL Bureau

QSL Lookup Databases

QRZ
HamCall
QSL Manager Lookup

Grey Line

by John WalkerOften, propagation becomes excellent along what is known as the Gray Line. This image gives you the current view of where daylight is bordered by darkness. The Gray Line is that shade area along the entire boundary between night and day. See John’s website for more information about “Grey Line” propogation. He also has more interesting items here.

Links

Antenna Sites

• NVIS Antenna
• Delta Loop
• Plans and Theory
• Homebrew Links
• RF Problems- Vertical

Propagation

• Studies
• hfradio.org Studies
• DX Zone
• Near-Real-Time MUF Map

Digital

• IRLP
• EchoLink
• TAPR
• ARPS
• PSK
• AMSAT – Satellites

Contests

• ARRL Only
• All Contests

Reference Info

• Radio and DX Guide
• eHAM.net
• HAMRAD
• Intl Call Sign db
• CQ Magazine
• Free QSL Mgr SW
• K3WWP’s QRP Site

QRP

• K3WWP’s QRP Site

MARC Info

• Hamfest – June 20th 2009
• Join MARC – Appl.

Downloads

• Band Plan
• Grid Square

Logbook of the World Now Supports Worked All States Award

By the ARRL, on March 24, 2006

Users of the ARRL’s Logbook of the World (LoTW) now may apply their LoTW credits to applications for the League’s Worked All States (WAS) award. Once registered and logged in, users may set up a WAS account on the Logbook Awards page, configuring the account to automatically select QSLs to use or selecting them manually via the Your QSOs page.

LoTW is a repository of logbook records submitted by users from around the world. When both participants in a contact submit matching QSO records to LoTW, the result is an electronic “QSL” that can be used for award credit.

As part of this addition, administration and maintenance of all WAS awards is now perfomed using an LoTW module. US Amateur Radio licensees must be ARRL members to apply for the WAS award. In addition to WAS, LoTW supports the ARRL DX Century Club (DXCC) award.

Since its inauguration in September 2005, LoTW has more than 95 million QSO records on file, with nearly 5.15 million QSL records resulting. The system boasts just over 12,000 registered users, and there are more than 18,100 certificates–each representing a particular user call sign–on file.