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the ham radio pages of
Peter Jennings

AB6WM       VE3SUN        C31LJ

In 1902, Rudyard Kipling wrote a short story called Wireless which was published in Scribner's Magazine. If you have ever wondered what it would have been like to have lived around the time that Marconi was performing his first experiments with wireless and the coherer was the state of the art detector, you should read this fascinating account of a stormy night and an experiment with Hertzian waves.

ab6wm qsl  AB6WM Stereogram QSL Card. Hidden in the picture are a 3 element quad and an inverted V dipole. To get a real one all you have to do is work me in a contest and send your card to P O Box 336, Ben Lomond CA, USA 95005. 
C31LJ QSL  C31LJ QSL cards are available from my QSL manager: VE3EXY.

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Freeware of interest to contesters and DXers:

DX Monitor

DX Monitor is an internet application that automatically monitors the information available from the OH2BUA DX Summit site. Alarms can be set for skeds and spotted calls or prefixes. Updates are automatic when you are connected. Shareware.

BEAM

BEAM displays a world map and a US map in Mercator projection. Callsigns entered are displayed on the map with distance, bearing, and grid square. Links to HamBase provide automatic lookup of US calls. Log files can be used to create maps of contacts. Maps can be saved as GIF files. DOS program. Freeware. 

Download Beam 1.11

HamPop

HamPop is a DOS TSR which will access one of the files on the QRZ! Ham Radio CD Rom and display the name, address, state, CQ zone, and county of US radio amateurs. A very useful program for contesters outside the US in CQWW, or outside California in CQP. Freeware. 

Download HamPop

QRATE

QRATE is a simple DOS utility for determining the best hour, ten minutes, and minute from a contest log. Works with CT and other logs with ASCII output files. C source included. Freeware. 

Download Qrate