30 Sites in 30 Minutes

By | November 10, 2026

Here are all the links for my “30 Sites in 30 Minutes” presentation for the Black River Amateur Radio Club in November 2026.

30 Sites in 30 Minutes

  1. https://www.qrz.com/ – logbook, community, forums, and more
  2. https://www.hamqsl.com/ – space weather and widgets
  3. https://www.hamradio.com/ – buy the stuff!
  4. https://www.dxengineering.com/ – buy more stuff and they are innovating with their own things
  5. https://hamstudy.org/ – study for the test AND to keep your knowledge sharp
  6. https://www.youtube.com/@q5hamradio – my favorite ham radio YouTube channel
  7. https://contestcalendar.com/ – nearly every contest in the world is listed here
  8. https://www.3830scores.com/ – unofficial, self-reported results for contests
  9. https://contestonlinescore.com/ – live scoreboard during contests
  10. https://www.dxzone.com/ – so many resources. This will take awhile to fully take in!
  11. https://www.arrl.org/ – the amateur radio organization for the USA
  12. https://www.omiss.net/ – a great way to get WAS quickly. Fun net and on the air daily.
  13. https://radioid.net/ – THE place you need to go for DMR before getting on the air.
  14. https://netfinder.radio/ – find just about any net you can think of
  15. https://openquad.net/ – multimode digital voice. Many great nets for every DV mode.
  16. https://www.repeaterbook.com/ – superb resource and worth the money to support.
  17. https://www.receiverbook.de/ – List of SDR receivers worldwide
  18. http://websdr.org/ – listen from many different places around the world. Record yourself.
  19. https://pskreporter.info/pskmap.html – interactive map of stations heard on weak signal modes.
  20. https://www.eham.net/ – if you like a forums based experience, this is your place.
  21. https://hamalert.org/ – get an alert when a specific station is on the air. Very handy.
  22. https://k0pir.us/ – this guy has a great website with lots of resources and articles of ham interest.
  23. https://www.mapability.com/ei8ic/maps/maps.php – important maps for reference!
  24. https://ft8web.ok1cdj.com/ – FT8 client that runs in a web browser!
  25. https://aprs.fi/ – everything APRS
  26. https://aprs.world/ – APRS on steroids!
  27. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jTi0Bcn3woe2089oHK-ErV8nn99u9Eao/view – all the APRS symbols
  28. https://longislandcwclub.org/ – learn CW
  29. https://www.arnewsline.org/ – Amateur radio newsline
  30. https://drive.google.com/file/d/12cyduFmQSQfxwAMlPTy16WnfyNRHJnia/view – beacons worldwide