Useful Links & Downloads

The following page contains links which the reader may find interesting:-

 

 

Other Clubs and Societies

The club is affiliated to the following societies:-

The Radio Society Of Great Britain

http://www.rsgb.org.uk

NARSA

The Northern Amateur Radio Societies Association organises an annual rally which for many years has been at the Norbreck Hotel, Blackpool.

www.narsa.org.uk

Ofcom Downloads

The Ofcom Amateur Resources Pages has the On-Line Services User Guide and the forms you may need when you can't use

http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radiocommunication-licences/amateur-radio/forms-resources/

History of the Telegraph

http://nearfieldcommunication.org/history-of-the-telegraph.html

Learning Morse

Our own CW Pages

The International Morse Preservation Society - Fists CW Club

  •     Lots of resources including more on-air practice sessions, programs and other links

The RSGB GB2CW schedule

G4ILO's Excellant Traning Programs:- Morse Gen  & Morse Machine

The "Just Learn Morse" program

Magnetic Loop Antennas

Brians PPT on Home Brew Magnetic Loops.

Surface Mount Soldering

Nice tutorial:-    http://www.midnightdesignsolutions.com/dds60/index.html

Videos on YouTube

Sites Selling Hot Air Equipment

http://www.pcb-soldering.co.uk/

Solder Paste

D-M-COMPONENTS Ebay Store

Low Melt-point Solder

Chip Quick

 

AMSAT Colloquium

Presentation can be downloaded here:-

http://www.uk.amsat.org/

Video presentations of lectures filmed and streamed live during AMSAT Colloquium

http://www.batc.tv/

Once at the BATC site, select Film Archives.

Antenna Matching

http://www.g3ynh.info/zdocs/z_matcing

The pages on impedance matching (Parts 1 and 2), including the analysis and operation of L, T and Pi networks, are excellent. The treatment of the subject includes a tiny bit of maths (R, G and jX), but that adds to the excitement.

 

Time and frequency related Links

Two frequencies where time signals can be found are 4.996 MHz and 9.996 MHz.  The signals come from RWM near Moscow. The service is 24-hours and the schedule of modulation can be found in Wikipedia by searching for RWM.

This link gives the modulation cycle foir the time signal  http://www.sigidwiki.com/RWM

International Earth Rotation and Reference Service - Measuring the irregularities of the Earth's rotation:- http://www.iers.org/

Time Nuts Mailing list :- http://www.leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm

Some Standard Time Sites

In January 2012 a decision was to be made on retaining or dropping the leap second, the latter being the USA's proposal. The decision that actually came out was to postpone the decision until 2015!  Now postponed until 2023.

A problem with retaining the leap second is that they will become problematically more frequent as the years go by. Currently one leap second is introduced every year or two. Centuries from now, the Earth's rotation will slow down to such a rate that several leap seconds a day will be necessary to keep Atomic Time in step with Solar Time. See the NPL website for further detail,

http://www.npl.co.uk/educate-explore/what-is-time/the-leap-second-debate

Propagation Links

NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Centre. Solar indices every three hours.

http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/text/wwv.txt

 

The Propagation link in the menu of this website leads to an abbreviated version of the Space Weather Centre's flux and sunspot summary.

RSGB Propagation Studies page - lots of links and useful information.

    http://www.rsgb.org.uk/psc/

Space Weather Prediction Center

   http://www.swpc.noaa.gov

Software and Utilities

Antenna Modeling Software and other Utility Programs by Dan Maguire, AC6LA

http://www.ac6la.com/

Arduino Morse Beacon

http://brainwagon.org/2009/11/14/another-try-at-an-arduino-based-morse-beacon/comment-page-1/

The source file may be downloaded from here:-

http://www.smrcc.org.uk/sites/default/files/beacon.ino

Free versions of HRD

http://www.iw5edi.com/software/ham-radio-deluxe-5-download-links

See also the SMRCC Tools page => http://www.smrcc.org.uk/tools

 

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