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 is now selling a new series of receivers. The original Kiwi receivers are no longer in production.
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
- All About Ham Radio for Beginners page with many links
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News. Accept no imitations. These outlets cover stories themselves and actually check to make sure something happened before they put it out as news. Some may require logins and/or paid subscriptions for some or all content.
- ABC 7 Chicago traffic map
- Shaw Local Illinois Valley is what News-Tribune of LaSalle, IL and The Times of Ottawa, IL link to now
- Roll Call newspaper on Capitol Hill
- 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
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News part 3 (info sources)
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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
- Space Weather U.S. government info source
- 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
- Celestial Programming : Computing Besselian Element Polynomial Coefficients, if you know, you know.
- Parallax calculator to convert parallax to distance
- Hipparcos and Tycho star catalogs
- star brightness magnitude comparison tool
- Estimating Limiting Magnitude page about how dim an object you can see
- Counting Stars in the Great Square, another way to determine limiting magnitude
- American Association of Variable Star Observers
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Internet search engines, portals, and guides
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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
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Useful software and services (maybe I should just say miscellaneous)
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Personal websites of people I know
- Rachel Moosadee, many more interesting links and a cool retro look too
- Jason Hooper doesn't seem to be doing anything here lately and I haven't been in touch with him in some time
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