NASWA · Links

Links:

Kim Andrew Elliott: Respected audience researcher, VOA gadfly and NASWA columnist.
Musings — International Broadcasting, Public Radio: Richard Cuff, NASWA's Easy Listening columnist, covers exactly what the blog name suggests.
On the Short Waves: Exhaustive site about the history of shortwave radio by radio historian and NASWA board member Jerry Berg, based on his acclaimed book.
Patepluma Radio: Great source for anecdotes about Latin American radio stations, by Don Moore, former Latin Destinations columnist.
R390A Receiver: Information about this classic military receiver by the premiere restorer, former NASWA director Chuck Rippel.
Tom Sundstrom: English Language Schedules and Net Notes column editor emeritus.

3 Day Estimate Planetary K index: Graph showing the K index every three hours for the past three days; good for spotting trends.
Earth View -- Mercator Projection: Grayline map showing position of darkness and light.
Earth View -- View from Above: Grayline map of half of the earth with the view from space.
IPS Space Services: Australian agency for monitoring and predicting space weather.
NOAA Space Environment Center: U.S. National Weather Service site about solar weather; home of WWV propagation information.
Radio Netherlands -- The Solar Guide: An explanation of propagation and the effects of the sun written for laymen.
Solar Terrestrial Dispatch: Canadian source for much great information on propagation.

Canadian International DX Club: Canada's nationwide DX club.
Ontario DX Association: Canadian club covering the full spectrum of the radio hobby.

AOR UK: Home of the groundbreaking AOR AR-7030 and AR-7030 Plus tabletop receivers.
Etón: Makers of the highly regarded E1 and Satellit 800, as well as many other Etón and Grundig portable receivers.
Icom America: American branch of the makers of the popular R-75.
Kiwa Electronics: Maker of many interesting accessories and receiver upgrades.
R. L. Drake: Manfacturers of the now-discontinued Drake R8 series, designer of high end Grundig and Etón radios.
Sangean: Makers of popular portable receivers.
Ten-Tec: Maker of the computer-controlled RX-320, mid-range RX-350, and high end RX-340 receivers.

Dream: Open source software for Windows and Linux for decoding DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) broadcasts
DRM Software Radio Project: Commercial software for Windows to decode DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale) digital shortwave broadcasts
Strong Signals HF Receiver Control Software: Links to software for controlling receivers; part of a longer page including scanner software as well.

DXing.com: Exhaustive source of radio reviews covering decades, plus other information, run by Universal Radio.
DXing.info: Mika Mäkeläinen's great source of DX news and tips.
Hard Core DX: Home of the venerable Hard Core DX mailing list, plus lots of great DX tips and antenna information, run by Risto Kotalampi.
Radio Intelligencer: Ulis Fleming and friends keep up to date with the latest news and receiver information.
Radio Reference: Mostly scanner information, but the Wiki (user-edited web site) and Forum sections include information on HF broadcasting.

At 2008 May 13, 0600 UTC

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