Ham Radio Resources

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Ham Radio Prep

Ham radio prep

Great study resource for new hams who want to get, or upgrade, their license. They have an efficient and effective learning system. Great resource at a low cost.

Direwolf guide

Automatic packet reporting system

Low bandwidth real time digital communications system.

Operating Manual

Ham radio videos

Extensive list of over 400+ YouTube channels.

Digital Modes for Beginners

Avoid baofeng radios

Informative story about why you should probably avoid these radios despite their appealing cost savings.

Old Electronics World Magazine

Electronics world magazine

An archive of an interesting look down radio's memory-lane from the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's.

Amateur radio repeaters

Repeaterbook.com database.

Hamdb

A bash script that downloads FCC Amateur Radio licenses data, populates a MySQL database, and has a query tool.

FCC ULS Weekly

Weekly databases for hams. Select amateur radio service - licenses for the full database. The file is compressed quite a bit.

Compiling a list of callsign URLs

There are over 1.6 million ham callsigns. How many of these are also ham websites? Let's find out.