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NG3K Provided Resources:

• Announced DX Operations May31 (About ADXO)
  Now with links to the DX Watch spot database for active operations!
• Contest Operations, Calendars, and Resources May28
  Check here for contest announced operations tables.
• Previous Contest Operations (1996+)
• DXCC Entity Tables + Information Aug 12, 2012
• Current Callsign Information for the former USSR Republics Mar 9, 2004
(Search DXNL)
• Ohio/Penn Dx PacketCluster DX Bulletins (Archive)
• ARRL Propagation Forecast (Archive)
• AD5Q Propagation Forecast (Archive) January 10, 1999 (Final Bulletin)
• United States County List Feb04, 2003
• N4KG on SR/SS Enhancement and Grayline Propagation
• NG3K Reciprocal Links

Packet Cluster Resources:

• Reverse Beacon Network Offers real-time spots from broadbanded receivers worldwide. Currently and recently online network nodes, N4ZR's short history of the reverse beacon network, and info on CW Skimmer software. are viewable also. Hearty thanks go to VE3NEA, N4ZR, F5VIH, and PY1NB
• Telnet Access to DX Packets Clusters 10Feb2023
• DXCluster.info
  From AD1C, offers extensive packetcluster information including a Telnet Directory
• DXWatch PY1NB's remarkable 2nd generation DX spotting application that integrates data from packet cluster, qrz.com, and 425DXN
• K3LR's Using AR-Cluster Version 6
• Packet Cluster Command Reference
• DXSpider (version v1.50) User Manual (Tnx G0VGS)
• DX Summit (OH8X)
• DX Heat
• DXScape (Tnx JA4PXC)
  Web-based DX Cluster with live links to DX Web pages; auto-updates every two minutes; many options available
• IRC #CQDX Chat Channel (Tnx Doug, N6RT)

Call Books & QSL Info

Call Books

• Australia (Australian Communications Authority)
• Austria (Bundesministerium fur Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie)
• Belarus (EU6TV)
• Belgium
• Bulgaria (LZ1KSN)
• Bermuda
• Canada
• Czech Republic January 2020
• Egypt (SU1ER)
• France (REF Union)
• Germany (Bundesnetzagentur)
• Poland (Polski Zwiazek Krotkofalowcow)
• Slovakia (OM2ADP)
• South Africa (SARL)
• Turkey (TA3AK)
• United States
  • WM7D's FCC Callsign Database

QSL Info

• QSL Routes from [1997][1998][1999][2000][2001][2002][2003][2004] German DX News Letters (via NG3K) Aug24
• ARRL Incoming QSL Bureau System
• ARRL Logbook of the World
  A repository of log records submitted by users from around the world; when both participants in a QSO submit matching QSO records to LoTW, the QSO can be used for ARRL award credit
• ARRL Outgoing QSL Service
• IARU QSL Buros (N1FOC)
• IK3QAR QSL Manager Lookup
• K4UTE Quick QSL Manager Lookup
• Pathfinder Web Client (Tnx AA6YQ)

Links to DX Tools:

• AC6V Amateur Radio and DX Reference Guide
  Pre-eminent directory of Amateur Radio on the World Wide Web
• Amateur Radio Prefixes
  Detailed information relating to amateur radio callsigns worldwide; includes hard-to-find regional details for many countries; collected and organized by AC6V
• Azimuthal Bearing Map Generator by NS6T
  Input your location (grid square, latitude/longitude, or major city) and generates an azimuthal bearing map based on your QTH; be patient; requires 30 seconds or so to complete
• CQ DX Zones of the World -- Written CQ Zone definitions
• 60 Meters Online
  Detailed information on 60m operation and activity
• DXCC Entity Tables + Information
• FT8 Operating Guide; Work the world on HF using the new digital mode By Gary Hinson ZL2iFB
  
• GMDX Group
  Source of the IOSA Island List
• Information on Licensing Abroad for Radio Amateurs by OH2MCN
• United States Islands Directory
  This is a superlatively organized and presented information resource!
• Ham Maps (JF9EXF)
  CQ and ITU zone maps w/ underlying entities (click on zone number for a list); also DXCC, Grid squares, Beam map, and Japanese districts. Very nice indeed
• Internet Ham Atlas (SP6NVK) Offers maps and extensive information about the DXCC entities
• IARU Zones and Regions
• ITU Zone Maps Thanks to Tim, EI8IC
• RSGB IOTA Spots
• U.S. Counties with Maps
  Provided by National Association of Counties, offers extensive and detailed information about US counties; both counties within a state and cities within counties are available.
• United States Counties (with a link to a county outline map for each state)
• USA Districts (by AC6V)
  State and callsign-district outline map with ITU and CQ zones for each entity.

Links to Propagation Tools:

• AD5Q Propagation Bulletins (August 1995-January 1999)
  Although no longer issued, these bulletins contain many insights into seasonal- and sunspot level-related propagation variations.
• ARRL Propagation Forecast Bulletins (May 1995- )
• Earth View
  A near real-time grayline map provided by John Walker, Fourmilab, Switzerland
• G3USF's Worldwide List of 50 mHz Beacons
• Amateur Radio Ham Radio Maidenhead Grid Square Locator
  By K2DSL. Google Map based worldwide grid square locator; determine grid square using an address or call sign (if in qrz.com database); enter a grid square and it returns a Google map of that square.
• hf-radio.org propagation; includes the NW7US Propagation Alert
• Introduction to HF Radio Propagation
• NCDXF/IARU Beacon Transmission Schedule
• Near-Real-Time MUF Map (Solar Terrestrial Dispatch)
  Offers a wealth of propagation prediction information, graphically presented, including: Radio Auroral Zones; MUF contour lines; Grayline. The map is updated every five minutes.
• PSK Reporter
  By N1DQ. Google-map implementation of the PSK Reporter data; see what PSK31 signals are being heard by monitor stations in your area; call CQ in PSK31 and see which monitoring stations hear you; many other uses; dynamite application
• Transequatorial Radio Propagation
• VOACAP Quick Guide by OH6BG A guide to using VOACAP - a free professional HF prediction program from NTIA/ITS, originally developed for Voice of America (VOA)
• WM7D's Solar Resource Page

DX-related Software

• MultiNEC Combines antenna modeling and propagation predictions and lets you automate and animate both.
• Programs to Help NCDXF/IARU Beacon Listeners
• VE3SUN DX Monitor
  Windows shareware to organize and display data from the cluster system; incorporates propagation and other information and is customizable according to user's preferences

Links to Other DX Related Sites:

• 425 DX News
• DX Code of Conduct
• DX-LIST (Tnx KH2D)
  An unmoderated E-mail list (reflector) dedicated to DX topics; archives are available to subscribers only
• German DX Foundation (GDXF)
  
• ICPO Mailing List
  An umoderated mailing list for announcements of island, castle, and portable operations. Associated Web pages also provide a list of current and archived announcements.
• KA9FOX Web Pages
• NCDXF/IARU International Beacon Network
• Radioamateur.org -- HF DX
  Listing of HF DX operations (in French)
• The Daily DX
• 10-10 Awards and their Requirements

Other Miscellaneous Resources

• The Canada/US AM Station Info Search Page
  Search by latitude, longitude, callsign, frequency, state or province, format.
  
• Radio-Locator
  Search AM and FM US/Canada broadcast stations by callsign, frequency, or location
• IRCA Mexican Log
  22nd Edition, 2019, International Radio Club of America; authoritative, detailed, and up-to-date listing of Mexican AM broadcast band radio stations, much based on actual monitoring; includes information concerning transition to FM. Updated to Sep 1, 2019.
• FCC Data dot Org
  Comprehensive broadcast service database covering U.S., Canada, Mexico, U.K., Ireland, Australia, Japan; for U.S. and Canada, includes Amateur Radio license data as well.
• FCC Info.com
  Search FCC broadcast service (AM FM TV) data using a large variety of parameters
• Searchable Online Directory of North American FM Radio Stations
  Covers United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean; search by call sign, frequency, city, state/province, country, and more and by any combination thereof; kudos to WTFDA (Worldwide TV-FM DX Association) and editors Mike Bugaj (CT), Bill Hale and James Niven (TX), Jim Thomas (MO), Fred Nordquist (SC), Les Rayburn (AL)
• Pacific Asia Listener (PAL) Guide Searchable online database of Pacific and Asian broadcast stations; search by frequency or country; also string searching of other data
• Rabbit Ears TV Query
  Search US TV stations by location, call sign, channel, and by any combination thereof; output brief or detailed results; kudos to the Rabbit Ears site which also provides a staggering array of TX DXing tools (including a Live Band Scan, a Google Map display of TV tuners across the US continually scanning and graphically displaying their reception results )
• World Radio History
  Jaw-dropping searchable collection of radio broadcasting memorabilia; contains PDF copies of Radex, White's Radio Log, FBIS Radio Stations, Jones North American Radio and TV guide, and many others; QSL collections from old-time veteran AM broadcast band DXers; much, much more
• History of Canadian Broadcasting
  Definitive History of AM and FM and TV broadcasting in Canada; created by the Canadian Communications Foundation
• Broadcast Archive
  Extensive compilation of historical data on the pioneer radio stations and broadcasting in the US
• United States Early Radio History (By Thomas H. White)
• US/Canada TV Database (By Doug, W9WI)
• TV Tropo Ducting Forecast Map
• Domestic Broadcasting Survey by the Danish Shortwave Club
• Short-Wave.Info
  Enter a short wave broadcast frequency and find out what worldwide stations are operating on that frequency at the current time
• Sample Sounds of Digital Modes
• How far is it?
  Calculate distance between 2 locations by entering lat/long for each
• ARRLWeb
• Commercial Airline Flight Locater (Real Time!!)
• eHAM.net
• First Class CW Operators' Club
• Hard Core DX dot Com
• Open Amateur Radio Repeater Page
• U.S. Federal Communications Commission

Dealers

• Amateur Radio Supplies (N1SNB)
• K9GE Android Apps

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