General Meeting – October 2024 – Simple Ways The Internet Can Assist Your Ham Radio Experience

Please join RWK on Monday Oct 14th for our General Meeting. 

Have you heard about the internet? There are lots of services on the internet that can assist your ham radio experience. From finding out who you are talking to, seeing the current state of propagation, to knowing if your signal is getting out, there are internet-based resources that can help. Come discover a few that you might not know about…

Session Resources:

Here are the slides from the presentation (pdf)

Links from the presentation:

Amateur Radio online directory – qrz.com

Amateur Radio registry for DMR IDs – radioID.net

RF Path Profiler – heywhatsthat.com/profiler.html

HF – Propagation Model(s) VOACAP – https://www.voacap.com/hf

HamClock Software

VHF – Find Tropo openings – vhf.dxview.org

DX Summit – www.dxsummit.fi

DX Watch – www.dxwatch.com

ClubLog – clublog.org/personal_spots.php

HamSpots – hamspots.net

PSKreporter.info

Listen to Web SDRs – websdr.org

Reverse Beacon Network – reversebeacon.net

WSPR – wsprnet.org

For DMR-MARC repeaters – http://cbridge.hamradio2.com:42420/CallWatch

How to identify local Repeaters – repeaterbook.com

What Frequency Do I Put My Hotspot On? – http://www.txvhffm.org/coordination/bandplan.php

Honorable Mention:
APRS tracking – aprs.fi
Listen to Repeaters and Pub Service – broadcastify.com
Callsign Search – ae7q.com
Radio Buy/Sell – swap.qth.com
Local Public Service Radio – radioreference.com
Space Weather – spaceweather.com
Ham License Map – haminfo.tetranz.com/map