Welcome to the Brightleaf Amateur Radio Club

Boy Scout Amateur Radio Page.

This is a list of web links that may be of interest to you.  Please take some time and "surf" the links.

The page was created to allow you to easily get further information about amateur radio.

 

Brightleaf Amateur Radio Club - This is the amateur radio club for Pitt County and sponsor of the station. Check out the link page!

Brightleaf Amateur Radio Club - Greenville,  North Carolina

American Radio Relay League (ARRL)

This is the main organization for US hams.

    ARRL Home Page

Hams can communicate using satellites.  This is the North American amateur radio satellite organization.

     AMSAT-NA

Packet radio is digital radio communication.  Here is the Tucson Amateur Packet Radio web site.  They do some neat things and have been at the forefront of digital communications.

      TAPR Home Page

I've built one of these.  Works great and for not much money. Go to Clarc website then "Articles of Interest" and then "V/UHF Antennas",

Cheap VHF-UHF Antennas

Great kits for low power operation.

Hams call it QRP.

     Small Wonder Labs

Learn a new language....learn morse code.

Down load the Koch CW trainer.

     G4FON

Here are some web pages with good links to other amateur radio sites.

 

WM7D's Amateur Radio Links Index

 

Amateur Radio World-Wide - NW7US

Ham radio is world wide.

 

IARUWeb The International Amateur Radio Union

Great explanation of Ham Radio   Howstuffworks How Ham Radio Works
Boy Scout Radio Merit Badge Requirements                          

Radio Merit Badge

     

If you have any questions, please email Dave LeMoine at     [email protected].

 

Have fun and thanks for your interest.

Revised 22 Feb 2009