Members Favorites.xlsx

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5	Available Call Signs	A place to look to see if what calls are available for those looking to change their call sign.
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7	Amateur Radio Clubs in SC	SCIWAY, pronounced "sky-way," is an acronym for the South Carolina Information Highway is the largest and most comprehensive directory of South Carolina information on the Internet.
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9	Azimuthal Map Builder	Create an azimuthal map for any location on the globe
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11	Available Call SignQuery Tools	Explanation page
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13	Beacon Finder	Dozens of Beacon Links and some beacon software programs as well.
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15	Beacon Clock	Gives sked of times, frequencies, and bearings for each beacon Site is no longer showing beacon info.
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17	Radio QTH	Call Sign LookUp
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19	Ham QTH	Call Sign LookUp
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21	Ham Call	Call Sign LookUp
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23	QRZ	Call Sign LookUp
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25	CHIRP radio programming ($0)	CHIRP is a free, open-source tool for programming your radio. It supports a large number of manufacturers and models. You often get what you pay for.
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27	DX Contest Calendar	Ever wonder how some guys know what contests are going on this weekend? This is their secret. There are about a dozen tabs showing some of the same info in different ways.
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29	DX Spotter - Ham QTH	Recently spotted DX
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31	DX Spotter - DXHeat	Recently spotted DX
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33	DX Spotter - DXWatch	Recently spotted DX
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35	Find A Foxhunt	Ham Foxhunts using radio transmitters
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37	Foxhunting Tips	Various Techniques for radio orienteering
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39	Foxhunt Tranceiver Helps	This is the transmitter used for KCARC foxhunts
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41	Echolink helps	Use your cell phone app, echolink, to contact repeaters areound the world.
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43	Radio Freq Interference	The Valley Radio Club is making an effort to assist in tracking down and resolving RFI problems affecting radio communications.
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45	HamClock Software ($0)	HamClock is a kiosk-style application that provides real time space weather, radio propagation models, operating events and other information particularly useful to the radio amateur. Refer to the QST article October 2017
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47	HamDashboard ($0)	Use your web browser to show 12 sections of ham and wx info. Great youtube video for this fully customizable personal home page found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZZXg60tN-o
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49	Ham Locator	Click on the gridsquare button, enter your grid square, see who lives nearby. Do the same search by zip code.
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51	ITU Amateur Prefixes Poster	Ever wonder where that CY( call sign comes from? This poster can help. Pick up the poster for free at your next hamvention visit.
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53	Logbook of the World	Secure way to varify your contacts and the price is right. Provided by ARRL.
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55	Maidenhead Grid Finder	Put your address into the search to find out your Grid Square for FT8 and other uses.
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57	NSSL MRMS Product Viewer	Two Hundred Twenty-Four different Multi-Sensor Composite Radar Views.
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59	Real Time Flight Tracking	Want to see what flights are overhead? You can zoom in to your general area or zoom out and see that there are way too many planes in the sky.
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61	POTA	Parks program for amateur radio, also known as Parks on the Air (POTA), including a map and list...
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63	NanoVNA	NanoVNA is a handheld Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) with small outline, originally designed by edy555. It is a low cost yet high performance (at its price point) vector network analyzer (VNA), with LCD display, and can be powered from a 3.7V Li-ion battery.
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65	QSL Card Creator	You can use this web page to create QSL cards. The cards will be created in the form of a PDF document that you can then print on light-weight card stock. The individual cards can then be cut out and the information filled in and mailed to the intended recipient. You have the option of printing a single 5.5x3.5 QSL card or printing up to four cards per page.
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67	US Grid Square Map & Band Plan	Free download of a .pdf map and/or Band Plan poster. Same posters you get for free at the ICOM booth at hamconventions.
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69	US Amateur Graphical Band Plan	ARRL's version of the band plan map you see in the QST magazine.
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71	ARRL's Operating Resource Page	Detailed list or graphical list of band plans; National Regulatory ARRL Advocacy Updates; Maidenhead Grid Info; QSL Bureau
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73	Radio and Accessory Reviews	Reviews covering topics from Radio Repair to Radio Amplifiers; from VHF to HF radios. This massive collection of reviews by Amateur Radio Operators is the go-to to find out who likes what and how much they like it at eham.net
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75	PSK Reporter	After calling CQ an amateur can see where his signal was received. This can be useful in determining propagation conditions or in adjusting antenna and/or radio parameters. Most FT8 users have this set to automatically report to the site.
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77	Space Weather by SolarHam	SolarHam was launched with the purpose of providing real time Space Weather news and data from various sources, all in one location for easy navigation. Created and maintained by Kevin Gilles Gibeau VE3EN.
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79	ITU Table of International Call Sign Prefixes	Similar in scope to the ITU Amateur Prefixes Poster.
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81	Vanity Call Sign Predictor	This site has simulated the FCC vanity application process. Select from the below applications in the "Pending" state to see expected outcomes, including chance of assignment.
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83	WB0OEW 's Ham Projects	ClearSkyInstitute is the origin for the free hamclock. Also find links to space weather info.
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85	ON4AA's massive links page	Direction Finding, Surface Waves, Packet Reporting, Internet Radio Streams, Amateur Radio Maps.. are some of the many categories in which you can search for ham info.
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87	South Carolina Live Audio Feeds - Listen	Broadcastify Online Scanner. Kershaw County includes Lugoff Fire Dept. and the FleetTalk Network feed.
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89	Clocklink	Embed a free clock onto your web site.
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91	M3 Map of Effective Ground Conductivity in the United States for AM Broadcast Stations	Estimated effective ground conductivity in the United States. This data is used to predict the propagation of AM signals across the United States from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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93	Line of Sight Calculator	The RF Line-of-Sight tool allows users to easily drag-and-drop locations and obtain point-to-point line-of-sight information anywhere using Google Maps.
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95	RF Line of Sight - Multiple Radios	This free online tool takes antenna height, the topographical formations of the Earth, as well as Earth’s curvature, to calculate the line-of-sight for multiple radio paths. Note that buildings and other obstructions is not taken into consideration when calculating line-of-sight using this tool.
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97	US Cell Tower Map	Find out where your cell phone is trying to reach if Echolink or other Comm apps aren't working.
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99	Radio Relay International	RRI operates an international network of survivable, decentralized and dispersed communications networks. These interoperable networks operate without critical infrastructure such as cellular towers, mobile switching offices, terrestrial facilities, distributed nodes, or other infrastructure.
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