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| The Rotor Doctor | Parts, sales, service and history of the Amateur antenna rotator. |
| Norm's Rotor Service | This site has some useful information about rotators, including a great FAQ section and help to identify the different models. |
| Tic Ring Rotors | If you need to rotate a beam mounted half way down a tower, ring rotors are the way to do it. |
| See one in action | Here are some nice photos of an actual Ring Rotor installation. |
| Side Mount | The other way to do it is with a Swinging Side Mount, such as the one that Array Solutions manufacture. |
| RotorCard/Rotor-EZ | The addition of these cards give full PC contol to Yaesu SDX, DXA, Ham-II, Ham-III, Ham IV and all TailTwister series rotators. |
| RotorControl Interface | EA4TX produces a simple PC Board that lets you interface your PC to your rotator. It works with DOS or Windows, and is supported by a variety of logging programs. |
| Kenwood Interface Page | If you get stuck trying to intereface your Kenwood rig, K0BX has provided a lot of useful tips in his articles and notes. |
| Kenwood Amateur Radio Products | The main Kenwood entry point for all their range of Amateur Equipment. |
| Kenwood Information | The Kenwood FTP site is a great place if you need complete Kenwood Manuals, connector info, brochures, mods, programming software etc. etc. |
| Yaesu | Home of the FT1000MP mkV and others, as used by most of the world's top contesters. Check out what gets them that winning place. |
| Japan Radio Company | One of the most respected names in high-quality Amateur Radio products, they trimuph again with their top-of-the-line HF DSP receiver. |
| Icom | Well, I'm not a fan of the equipment Icom make, ever since I looked inside one, but if you're interested, here's what they do. |
| Equipment Mods | Here's a great modification site, featuring Adi, Alinco, AOR, Bosch, Icom, Kenwood, Motorola, Radio Shack, Ramsey, Regency, Standard, Storno, Uniden, Yaesu, and others. There's a newsletter, too. |
| Top Ten Devices | Top Ten manufacture a range of useful contest interfaces, including band decoders, antenna relays, and an SO2R box. |
| Array Solutions | This is the place to find information on WX0B antenna stacking and phasing devices, high power antenna switches, baluns, impedance transformers, custom antenna arrays and switching systems. They also make an SO2R interface. |
| Dunestar Systems | Dunestar Systems manufactures the RF Bandpass Filters, Antenna Remote Switching, and Coupling/Phasing devices used by many of the world's top contesters. |
| Heil Sound | A range of top microphones and headsets for the contester. Microphone inserts available for specialist applications. Connectors, booms,and footswitches. |
| Manual Archive | An archive of manuals for the older models of Ham equipment. Many, many makes and manufacturers are represented here. Access is free. Links are provided to the required viewer-programs. |
| Put your Amp. on 160m | An online version of a QST article, telling you how to convert your linear amplifier to work on Topband.Schematics, parts, and component-ratings are discussed. |
| WestMountain Radio | Here you'll find the home of the Rigblaster; an interface to connect your rig to a PC. Online PDF manuals available for download. |
| Expanded Spectrum Systems | Here a very neat gadget that lets you record an 80khz segment of an amateur band to a VCR, 6 hours per tape, and then play it back through any HF receiver! Now you can find out what everyone else was doing during that last contest, and see who was making all that splatter... |