Microwaves101 has a lot of visits from radio enthusiasts. So it's time we welcomed them with their own page on amateur radio! If any Ham has content that they'd like us to post, drop us a line!
Here's the Wikipedia story of how the word "ham" came to refer to amateur radio.
Here's a link to web site of the American Radio Relay League, a.k.a. the National Association for Amateur Radio.
Go to our book section and order a copy of the ARRL Handbook from Amazon. You can get used copy for just a few bucks, we did and we like it!
History of amateur radio
Radio, when you think about it, was invented by amateurs. It took years before big companies such as General Electric, RCA and AT&T screwed it all up by commercializing it. You can learn about some of the pioneers of radio in our Microwave Hall of Fame.
Check it out, John D. Kraus (W8JK) is also in the Hall of Fame!
Here's a public domain image of Hiram Percy Maxim, who founded ARRL in 1914. ARRL now boasts about 105,000 members.
If anyone wants to collaborate on an ARRL project, maybe we can help facilitate that. Example: how about a printed circuit board for a 24 GHz radio?
Bookmarks
We strive to be the web site that provides real content, not just links to other sites. But while we're waiting, we'll post some links. Here's a "short list" of links, many of which were sent in by Tony:
Miscellaneous
All About Circuits (an extremely active electrical engineering online community that provides both interesting content and useful resources for electrical engineers, including various engineering calculators as well as a free electrical engineering textbook.) Suggested by Kent!
23cm PA with GI-7
AA9PW.com FAA and FCC Exam Practice
DF5AI.NET - Amateur Radio Propagation Studies (NICE Website!)
Douglas T. Smith Editorial Service Homepage - VERY GOOD
DSP-10 2-meter Home Built DSP Amateur Radio Transceiver by W7PUA
EA6VQ - Moon-Net discussions
Elecraft Innovative Electronic Kits
electronics tutorials
EME ACTIVITY LOGGER!
EME Primer
EME, Earth-Moon-Communication. (W6-PA0ZN )
Find a ham in your area using zip code
HobbySpace - Space Radio
K2 Rework Eliminators
K8CU Home Page
KK7P.COM Your Resource for DSP Products and Services
Morse Runner
N1BUG Web Polarization of EME Signals How to Succeed More Often
PE1ITR - 144 and 432Mhz EME EXPERIMENTS
PSKMeter Page
QRZ.COM - Practice Exams
Solar Terrestrial Activity Report
Technician and General Class Training - MicroHAMS.com
UHF-Satcom.com - the online place for VHF to EHF satcom reception and monitoring
WC8VOA - West Chester Amateur Radio Association
DSP-10 2-meter Home Built DSP Amateur Radio Transceiver by W7PUA
Carsten Groen, OZ9AAR
SSB Electronic Amateur Radio Products Index
Down East Microwave Inc. Supplier of amateur radio equipment for 50MHz and above
G3SEK's Amateur Radio Technical Notebook
GO-Mars with AMSAT-DL's P5A-Mission
EME, Earth-Moon-Communication. (W6/PA0ZN )
Welcome to Earth-Moon-Earth Home Pages.
Antennae
HFpack (Horizontal) Pedestrian Antenna Shootout 2002 Horizontal HFpack (Vertical) Pedestrian Antenna Shootout 2002 Vertical Pacific Antenna Home Table of Contents - W1GHZ Microwave Antenna Book ONLINE
QRP (low power)
Four state QRP Group QRP Homebuilder QRPp International Radio Club ( QRPp, QRP, CW, SSB, PSK31, Tiny-Tornado, Pixie, Micro-80 ) The American QRP ClubRock-Mite
EME (moon bounce)
Microwaves and MillimeterWaves - L. Cupido
Moonbounce Weak Signal and Astrophotography by Mike Cook AF9Y
GLEAP - The W7GJ 6m EME Array
EME VHF-UHF-SHF by F2TU
The GM4JJJ Modified W1SL 144MHz Power Amplifier
DL4YHF's Audio Spectrum Analyser
OK1DFC EME Site - Very good stuff here
N2UO Home Page
EME Operating Primer
Weak Signal Source
W7GJ 2m EME Tips
MoonSked Moon Tracking EME software for Macintosh, Windows and Linux
The Home Pages of Michael Fletcher - OH2AUE
Radio Astronomy
Deep Space Network Home Page
Basics of Radio Astronomy
Radio-Sky Publishing - including Radio Eyes software
NASA Radio JOVE Project Home Page
Dish Projects
Dishes for Amateurs
4.5 Meter Dish Project
1420 Mhz Radio Astronomy Antenna
Amplifier Projects
VHF Amplifier Projects
QRO via Russia
23cm PA with GI-7
23cm cavity amplifier.html
High performance 144-MHz PA
Hombrew Power amplifiers of HA1YA (By HA8ET)
Lazy Builders PA
Description of 144 MHz high power amplifier, 4CX250B
This link came from Kristi:
I noticed you missed a great page on ham radios: http://www.answerconnect.com/articles/the-ham-radio-resource-guide . It looks like a very nice overview on hams, it provides a nice overview, along with providing links to very resourceful pages including technical specs, call signs, terminology, licensing, and equipment.
These links came from Wayne:
Owens Valley Radio Observatory and Ham Radio
San Bernardino Microwave Society (SBMS), one of the oldest ham radio clubs specializing in microwave technology:
Thanks!