Radio
UKSMG – The UK Six Meter Group: Promoting 50Mhz use and helping newcomers understand how to make a success of the band
RSGB – The Radio Society of Great Britain: For all things Ham Radio
Faros: HF Propagation software that connects your rig to your PC and listens out for beacons, a really useful monitoring tool that helps you find out short and long paths automatically
Ham Radio Deluxe: Rig control, Data modes, Satellites, Logging, Clusters and mapping all in one simple programme. I think this is the only piece of software that should be used every time you start up you rig.
Pocket PC
pRssreader: Excellent free RSS reader and podcast thingy for your pocket PC
Fizz Weather: A nice looking and easy to use weather news application with a good today plugin.
PocketDigi: Hamradio HF digital teletype modem for PocketPC. Most people need the arm version.
PocketMorse is a utility for decoding Morse Code audio signals. It runs on Windows desktop systems (equipped with a soundcard) or Pocket PC devices with the Pocket PC 2003 operating system (please contact us if you require a Pocket PC 2002 version). The Morse Code signal is either taken from the microphone input on the desktop/PocketPC or from a Line input (desktop).
PocketMorse can decode Morse when the signal is reasonably clear, and sent at a usual rate. If the signal is very noisy, faint, or sent very slowly (less than about 5 WPM) or very quickly (more than about 25 WPM) then the results from PocketMorse are unreliable.
PPC DX Cluster: A simple Telnet DX cluster on your web enabled pocket pc. Takes a bit of getting used to but a really nice little application
Magic Button: The best and by far the simplest task manager for the pocket PC
Pocket Mechanic: A useful set of tools for clearing out the muck from your pocket pc, formatting cards etc
Useful Stuff
RSS sites: You can subsbribe to these by any RSS reader but I’d recommend pRSSReader if you’re going to use your pocket PC. If there are any suggestions then just email me.
Automated Home – Funnily enough stuff about how to automate your home and general gadgets for inside the house
Green Technology – A bit commercial but interesting if you’re into this kind of thing
MotoGP News - News from the pits or is it just the pits?
Make – US magazine thats focussed on making stuff yourself be it electronic of papier mache
Podcasts: Here are a few of my favourite podcasts.
Music Week – Music run down from 6music
Digital Planet – BBC World service take on current technology
Science in action – More BBC science stuff
BBC Documentary Archive – Radio 4 documentaries delivered
Friday Night Comedy – Radio 4 programme, fairly self explanatory
Material World – More radio 4 programmes
Money Box – Financial stuff, again from radio 4
Blogs
g7kse – mine obviously
50Mhx blog - 6m news
Jason Bradbury – The bald bloke from five’s gadget show
