DL3BC

( Here you will find more links to amateur radio related web sites in German language)

Overview:

• General useful links
• ARDF (Radio Orienteering)
• Blogs, podcasts
• Contests, awards
• CW - Morse telegraphy
• Forums / discussion groups
• Information
• Services
• Software
• SOTA
• Technique
  • Antennas
  • Rigs
    • Yaesu FT-817
  • Modifications
• Events, exhibitions
• VHF / UHF

General useful links  top

DXzone
Huge dierectory of amateur radio web sites

eHam.net
Many articles, reviews, news mainly from the eHam.net users

Blogs, Podcasts top

Amateurlogic.tv
Amateur radio video podcast and blog

K7AGE's Channel @ YouTube
Amateur radio videos (specials: amateur satelite, PSK31, ...)

Soldersmoke by M0HBR und K7LR
A homebrew podcast

 

Contests, awards top

Bayerischer Bergtag 
Annual portable contest on VHF, UHF and SHF in Bavaria and surroundings

SOTA (Summits On The Air)
Official homepage
(more SOTA links: here)

 

CW - Morse telegraphy top

LCWO.net - Learn CW Online by DJ1YFK
Here you can learn or improve CW online without any software installation, just with the browser and soundcard

 

Events, exhibitions  top

AMTEC Saarbrücken 
Amateur radio exhibition and flea market in Saarbrücken

HAM RADIO
International Amateur radio exhibition in Friedrichshafen at Lake Constance

Interradio Hannover 
Amateur radio exhibition in Hannover

Rheintal Electronica 
Computer, electronics- and radio flea market in Durmersheim (near Karlsruhe)

UKW-Tagung Weinheim 
Annual meeting of VHF, UHF and SHF amateurs in Weinheim

 

Forums, discussion groups top

Echolink
Yahoo discussion group for all questions regarding Echolink the disputed Voice-over-IP communication for amateur radio

"Electric Handbag" - Yahoo Group for FT290R, FT690R and FT790R users
This is a discussion group for owners of the Yaesu FT-290R 2m multi mode tranceiver and its derivates like FT-290R II, FT-690, FT-790.
All hints and questions (from what does this key do? to How to align the PA?) are allowed

Radio Modifications
A Yahoo group discussing modifications at amateur radio equipment

 

Information top

AC6V's Amateur Radio and DX Reference Guide
A huge directory!

Band plans
directly from IARU

 Find QTH locator or map by ES1PUMP

 Amateur radio call search (Germany) 
by the German radio authority

HAM Maps by JF9EXF
A lot of maps for amateur radio purposes:
WAC continents, DXCC, CQ zones, ITU zones, ITU regions, QTH locators, beam maps, Japaneese districts

Internet Ham Atlas by SP6NVK
A lot of maps of "exotic" (seen from European point of view!) regions 

Prefixes of amateur radio calls by AC6V

QTH locator calculation and display by DL3BAK
Online calculation of beam directions and distance, conversion of QTH locators in longitude and latitude and vice versa, conversion of the old European QTH locators to Maidenhead format, display in maps

QTH Locator Grid Finder
QTH locator finder by QRZ.com

QTH locators with Google Maps by F6FVY
Shows the QTH locator after clicking on the map or finds the map section to a given locator

Repeaters and digipeaters in Germany 
After input of geographical coordinates, a city or the QTH locator you'll get a list with all information and a link to Google Maps / Google Earth

Solar Geophysical Data Dashboard by ON4AA
An information platform with all current short wave propagation related data as graphics.

 

Services top

eQSL
The modern way of sending QSLs.
Requires registration, free basic membership

eQSO
Software for QSOs via internet (Voice over IP)
Requires registration, for allowence to transmit a amateur radion license has to be verified, for receiving only not

Logbook of the World by ARRL
Who submits all his QSOs here does not need QSL cards for applying the DXCC awards if the QSO partner did the same. But that's not the only purpose. Available for radio amateurs all over the world.
Requires registration and license approval by ARRL

Morse Code Ringtone Generator by M1RGZ
This web site generates a downloadable MIDI file from text input.

QRZ.com
Worlswide call database and much more (discussion forums, market place, ...)

QSOnet - "Virtual Ionosphere for Radio Amateurs"
Transceiver simulation by software for QSOs via internet (Voice over IP),
unlike Echolink there are no RF interfaces available.
Registration required, annual charge but free for 90 days.

RemoteHams.com
A directory of radio amateurs who allow to controll their receivers via a web interface.

 Web controlled short wave receiver by Jeff Chilton
Hear the signals of his receiver in Reston Virginia, USA.

WebSDR of University of Twente (The Netherlands)
Multiple users can independently from each other control the software defined radio (SDR) on 20m, 40 and 80m. Ingenious!

 

Software top

EZNEC Antenna Software by W7EL
Antenna analysis program

Ham Radio Deluxe by HB9DRV
Free amateur radio software for Windows with broad functionality

LM Contest Software by DL8WAA
for retroactive creation, editing and analysis of contest logs

MMANA-GAL
Antenna analysis program (free for radio amateurs)

MobileLog by N0HR
Log program for Pocket-PC (PDA)

MultiPSK by F6CTE
Free software for digital modes

PocketDigi by OK1IAK
free software for digital modes on Pocket-PC (PDA)

UcxLog by DL7UCX
Free log and contest software

 

Technique top

Technique - antennas top

AC6V's Home Brew Antenna Links
A huge link collection of antennas for all requirements

DK7ZB - Antennas /
Deatailed descriptions of his home brew antennas (incl. his 28-Ohm-Yagis and DK7ZB-Match)

K7MEM's Online Antenna Calculator
...and a lot of more calculators (resistors, capacitors, inductors etc.)

Moxon Antenna Project
Theory, calculation and construction of Moxon antennas

Technique - modifications top

KB2LJJ Radio Mods Database

Modifications of amateur radios

mods.dk (registration required; only one article per day accessible)

mods-ham.com

Technique - rigs top

RigPix Database
Almost all commercial amateur radios of the past and present with technical data and pictures

Technique - rigs - Yaesu FT-817 top

HF/RF - Clipper Speech Processor by DF4ZS /
Not a simple dynamic compressor!

K6XX's FT-817 pages
with a simplified user's manual, interesting diagrams: current drain and  supply volatge versus output power etc.

KA7OEI's FT-817 pages
with a lot of tips

Yaesu FT-817 Links by K8ZT

 

VHF / UHF top

DX Sherlock 1.8 - VHF/UHF QSO real time maps by EA6VQ
shows QSOs of the past hour on a map

gooddx.net - Home of the DXrobot
DX Cluster for 6m, VHF and UHF

Make More Miles on VHF
Almost everything you need for 6m, VHF and UHF

William Hepburn's Worldwide Tropospheric Ducting Forecasts
shows expected tropo conditions similar to a weather map