Crawling around the net with Mike Graham, NE1V

Other Clubs, etc.

It is now the rule, rather than exception, that most ham clubs have their own web site, or at least web pages on someone's hosted site. The approach being used differs widely, with some offering very useful information, while others seem to be not much more than an ad for their site. I looked at some and offer them as a source of "browsing" when the DX propagation is terrible… like now!

Perhaps the best place to start is right on our own NARC web site to browse the list of New England Club sites that Jim, WW1Y has put together. Go to http://www.n1fd.org/clubs.html. From there you can hyperlink out to the list that Jim has compiled. Very nice.

If your like DX, try http://www.arrl.org/awards/dxcc/listmain.html. It's a subsection of the ARRL web site and contains the latest ARRL DXCC countries list.

If you really want to get daring, try the CIA World Factbook at http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/wfb-all.htm. While not an amateur radio web site, this site does provide some rather interesting insight into some of the DXCC countries. Besides, as you "surf" through, who knows what other interesting "material" you might uncover. Just don't tell me! I know nothing!

The OPDX (Ohio/Pen DX Club) Bulletin, Web Site edition, provides a lot of good information on the latest DX spots and upcoming DX'peditions. The URL is http://www.en.com/users/k8yse/opdx.html .

Another good one in the genre is the Western Washington DX Club (my old alma mater) web site at http://www.eskimo.com/~oolon/wwdxc/ .

Finally, if you really want to know how bad propagation is, try the ARRL Propagation Forecast bulletins at http://cpcug.org/user/wfeidt/Arlp/ .

Next month, some "spacy" stuff. 73 es happy surfing, de NE1V

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