Rick Wiegmann Koshko's compendium of links

Links are not endorsements. Likewise, omission doesn't necessarily mean anything either. Proceed at your own risk. As far as I know, there's nothing harmful in these links. But you never know when someone could get hacked, put up something hateful, or lose the domain to someone who puts up something not so nice. I intend to have a lot of links here, so I may not be able to keep everything up to date.

Use of these links in a manner inconsistent with their labeling is a violation of federal law. Or maybe it isn't. I don't really know. There are a lot of federal laws and nobody has time to read them all.

I hope you like the retro look. I don't need to use a lot of bandwidth for this, so I won't.

Some of these are alphabetized. Mostly, I'm putting things on here in order of importance to me or just whatever order I thought of them in.

Radio, TV, DXing, ham radio, and things like that

Federal Communications Commission home page
U.S. Medium Wave Pattern References by NF8M, shows where the radio signals for numerous AM stations theoretically go
American Radio Relay League for ham radio info
International Radio Club of America DXers' club
National Radio Club DXers' club
Universal Radio closed radio store selling off its stock. Lots of specs on radios--many no longer in production
World of Radio DXing program heard on shortwave and on podcasts too
William Hepburn's DX Info Centre Tropospheric Ducting Forecast attempts to tell you when you might get VHF signals from much farther away than usual thanks to weather conditions
Radio Museum info about antique radios
The Radio Historian sells calendars with colorized pictures of long ago radio station scenes
DX Central contests and more
Distance between two points if you know the coordinates, useful for figuring out DX distances
Distance From To, distance between two locations if you just know the names
Short Wave Info schedules, frequencies, languages, lookups, etc.
Radio Locator coverage maps
Global Tuners radio receivers online around the world
Kiwi SDR may get a reboot. The original Kiwi receivers are no longer in production. But interest is being polled now in a new line of Kiwis. In any case, I hope the receivers now out there stay online for a long time and this web site for them too.
St. Louis Media History
Medium Wave Info blog about medium wave around the world
HF Underground has many forums for non-licensed (pirate, Part 15, etc.) radio enthusiasts
Morse Code World
RufzXP for challenges listening to call signs sent in faster and faster Morse
FCC Proceedings & Actions Daily Digest for call letter changes, station sale approvals, more
AADE Filter Design program download
AM license query from FCC
Azimuth map made for any location from NS6T
Azimuthal map source code
Ghosts in the Air Glow "transmission art work" or slow scan TV experiment
Radio Heritage collecting stories and memorabilia about radio from around the world
Radio Discussions message boards
Business Studies: Broadcasting and Its History info with a timeline going back to 1906

News (Some may require logins and/or paid subscriptions for some or all content.)

ABC 7 Chicago traffic map
News-Tribune newspaper LaSalle, IL
Roll Call newspaper on Capitol Hill
The Times newspaper Ottawa, IL
WCSJ Radio Morris, IL
WGLT Radio Normal, IL
WJBC Radio Bloomington, IL
WLPO Radio Oglesby, IL
WNIJ Radio Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
WSPL Radio Streator, IL
WSPY Radio Plano, IL

News part 2 (career)

Illinois News Broadcasters Association
Tools for Reporters
Northern Illinois News Association formerly Northern Illinois Newspaper Association, for newspaper reporters and publishers

News part 3 (info sources)

Weather

National Weather Service
The Weather Channel
Weather Underground
Weather Spark has many interesting climate summaries in graphical form
Zoom Earth maps
Global Maps from NASA's Earth Observatory

Astronomy (Not astrology. I don't do astrology.)

SkyCaramba is mine
Sky & Telescope magazine
Astronomy magazine
American Meteor Society
International Occultation Timing Association Win Occult program for studying occultations
Stellarium free planetarium program
Celestia simulates travel through space at any speed with realistic views
Home Planet for 32-bit Windows looks a little primitive now, but it has useful features like an orrery
Shadow & Substance interesting presentations of astronomical sights by Larry Koehn
NASA eclipse page archive not being updated anymore, but let's hope this fantastic resource of Besselian elements, maps, etc. will stay online
Society for Popular Astronomy
Light Pollution Map
Space Weather auroral forecasts, sunspots, geomagnetic storms, and near earth objects
Aurora Alerts Softserve News site
BBC Sky at Night Magazine about astronomy in the U.K.
EarthSky.org has lots of astronomy and some other science too
Solar Terrestrial Dispatch current solar activity plot
The Aurora Page from Michigan Tech
Auroras - Paintings in the Sky
Sea and Sky astronomy pages (there are ocean related pages too)
Sea and Sky astronomy events calendars
Sky News, where the earth meets the sky Canadian astronomy site, not the British Sky News
Constellation of Words list of stars. Okay, this is mainly an astrology site. I include it here because there's lots of info about star name meanings. I still don't do astrology.
Bulletin A latest version from International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service for the latest delta T value
Live World Map of Satellite Positions from In-The-Sky.org

Esperanto

Esperanto.net
Esperanto.org
Esperanto USA
Universala Esperanto-Asocio
Edukado.net
Type It page for putting special Esperanto characters in your work text.
Vortaro Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto
Reta Vortaro
MiaVivo socia retejo por Esperantistoj estas senpaga kaj senreklama

AM Stereo

AMStereo.org, I'm not sure how up to date some of the station info is
FCC AM stereo history page, minimally informative, doesn't go into the infighting that's been killing it for decades
The Rise and Fall of Hi-Fi AM & AM Stereo by Radio Jay Allen
WION 1430 Ionia, Michigan an actual AM stereo station you can hear online
How to find North American stations broadcasting in C-QUAM AM Stereo using an online SDR
Meduci AM Stereo Renaissance
The AM Stereo Tech Zone

Internet search engines, portals, and guides

Dog Pile meta-search, gets results from multiple search engines
Bing
Lycos is still around
Excite is still around too
Web Crawler
Meta Crawler
Ask.com
Google
BoardReader looks through message boards
Wolfram Alpha
Start Page
Ecosia Bing search but which funds tree planting
Qwant with a focus on privacy
Search Encrypt
SearX was too busy to load when I tried it
Yandex based in Russia and with results in Russian; a possibly useful translator
Disconnect uses Duck Duck Go but with privacy, which Duck Duck Go supposedly already has
Swiss Cows
Lukol anonymous search uses Google
Gigablast isn't its own search engine anymore. It now taps into other search engines.
Becovi
WWW Virtual Library
Elephind newspapers search, said to have much more than Google Newspapers
Voice of the Shuttle
Info Tiger is still around
HotBot is back. I'm not sure if this version is truly descended from the one we knew way back when or if it's a totally new operation.
Aliweb may not be up to date. Copyright through 2009?

Image editing

Irfan View amazing free picture viewer and editor. It can't do everything, but it does a lot!
EZ Gif animated GIFs made easy
Image Flip animated GIF maker is free but with Imgflip watermark and size limits

Useful software and services (maybe I should just say miscellaneous)

Viddly YouTube downloader
Tiny Wow numerous file types can be converted to other file types
Page Resource on learning web design
Lyngsat tells you where TV and radio satellites are
Brain Wave Generator claims to help you become a better person by modulating your brain waves
Top 40 Weekly with charts going back to the 1950's
Event Notification Reports concerning radioactive materials, from Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Power Reactor Status Reports from Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Ameren outage map
ComEd outage map
Cornbelt Energy outage map
Audio Recording Calculator to figure out how much recording time you have for the free space and various settings
Reset Your Password for WordPress when you have it on your own site
88x31 buttons collection. Remember those? If you didn't have one for your web page, nobody would link to you.
WinCalendar for printable spreadsheet calendars

Time (not the magazine)

Politics

Congress Web portal for contacting U.S. lawmakers about issues with a foot in the 19th century. The media page has an extensive state-by-state list of newspapers but no broadcast or cable/satellite news outlets.
Roll Call newspaper on Capitol Hill
Illinois General Assembly
Congress.gov

Social media

MiaVivo por Esperantistoj estas senpaga kaj senreklama
Twittimer for scheduling Twitter and Facebook posts
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter
My Space is still around, mainly for musicians

American Sign Language

American Sign Language Dictionary

Personal websites of people I know

Rachel Moosadee, many more interesting links and a cool retro look too