KD6PAG - Organizations
Some organization active in amateur radio include:
American Radio Relay League
The American Radio Relay League
(ARRL) is the
largest ham organization in the United States and as well providing
excellent publications and services, also represents our interests
before the FCC and other governmental bodies. Via
Oak.Oakland.Edu's FTP site,
they have an excellent archive of useful information that is highly
recommended.
Locally, there is a hypertext copy
(not necessarily the most recent) of
index.txt.
Their WWW service includes a online version of the
ARRL Newsletter
AMSAT
AMSAT-NA
(the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation) publishes the
AMSAT Bulletinand also archives and keeps a reasonably current copy of
SpaceNews
which is editted by John A. Magliacane, KD2BD. The ARRL also keeps a
listing of Amateur Radio Satellite Frequencies.
Tucson Amateur Packet Radio
Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (TAPR)
has done alot of pioneering work in packet radio. They also maintain
an FTP archive at FTP.TAPR.Org which
has much useful information. They have an excellent introduction to
amateur packet radio in their
packet radio FAQ(frequently asked questions).
Newsline
Newsline
has a WWW edition, if you don't receive it over the air at a
convenient time for you locally.
Texas A&M University Amateur Radio Club
If you don't have your license yet (or want to upgrade), the official
question pools are on-line
and therein, W5AC, the Texas A&M
University Amateur Radio Club, will even generate a sample examination for you (thanks
to
KC5KSD
).
Northern California Packet Association
Northern California Packet Association (NCPA co-ordinates packet operations in the northern part of the state.
They have local band places for VHF and above, which include provisions
for spread spectrum operations. They also maintain on-line
Meeting Announcements.
International Digital Radio Association
International Digital Radio Association (formerly
ADRS or the American Digital Radio
Society) is relatively new to the Web but have improved considerably
with time. Unfortunately, they seem to assume you have an IBM-PC
compatabile machine to read many of their files (in .ZIP format), but
there's alot more than doesn't require unZIPping. (The GNU version of
'zcat' will read most of them. 'MacGzip' will do likewise, but you'll
have to changes its default extension from the standard '.gz' to
'.zip'. Don't forget to change it back. The latter assumes Netscape,
your milage may differ.) Especially recommended is
Technical Aspects of Selected
Digital Topics. This site is a must read if you're serious
about packet.
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