URLs I found Of Interest... Or To Be Useful
| BBARC | Big Bear Amateur Radio Club - Everything you wanted to know about the club that keeps the repeater going |
| Big Bear Lake (Wikipedia) | A background of our community, as reported by Wikipedia |
| CityOfBigBearLake.com | An official web site about the main city of the Big Bear Valley |
| BigBearChamber.com | The official web site of the Big Bear Lake Chamber Of Commerce |
| NOAA Weather - Big Bear Lake | Find out what the weather is like for us, about now. This is a 4 season resort. Our Snow season varies, but happens from December to April. |
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Federal Communications Commission License Search Database. Find any assigned call sign for any regulated frequency. |
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Another popular web site with amateur enthusiasts. It is more of a 'community' for enthusiasts, and provides virtually the same information, but many users create an account and provide a web page about themselves. there is also a link for taking short tests based on the FCC license tests. |
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This is where you can find the question pool for the current amateur tests; Technician, General, Extra, and VEC. This is the site of the "National Conference of Volunteer Coordinators". This is the group (Question Pool Committee) creates the tests based on the FCC 'Part 97 Rules' that define how the frequencies are to be used. It is complete with the answers, and in more than one format to ensure download ability. |
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Are you interested in finding out who is near you, or in a particular
location, by call sign? Enter a Zip Code and this web site will
find them for you. you can search Vanity call signs, available
call signs, even make your own QSL card to send to otheres. |
| ARRL Band Plan | There are specific frequencies available to amateur radio operators, and more available with subsequent license acheivement. This is the list of allowed frequencies and activities, by frequency band. There are more resources on the ARRL web site. take time to look around the site. Some areas require a paid membership, of which there are amazing benefits from. If you are a license holder, consider joining this organization. |
| Repeater List - ACV6.com | Find repeaters for a specific area, based on band. |
| Repeater Database - artscipub.com | Find amateur & GMRS repeaters in the USA by clicking on a State. Filter results by selecting cities. |
| Amateur Repeater - Wikipedia | A definition of what a repeater is and how it works. |
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Amateur Radio relay League - tis organization has been around for many decades, and has amassed a collection of information related to transmitting and receiving that I cannot begin to encompass in this little box. You have to look around the web site to realize the scale of the ARRL. Most of what they offer is not free, but you will find most of it indespensible. |
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NASA Space Station Sightings |
The International Space Station is orbiting the earth at over 17 thousand miles per hour. During dusk and dawn hours, when the sun is at an angle to reflect off of its shiny surface, you can look up and see it fly over. It only lasts a few seconds or minutes, but it is amazing to see. NASA publishes short term upcoming times for your area, and the ISS tracker web sight shows you where it is at any given time. Whit these two web sites, you can determine when you are most likely to look up and see this shining object whiz by. Sign up to get email alerts of upcoming sightings with the third link. There are people who use direction antennas to focus the power of there transmitters at the space station and actually make brief contact with someone up there operating on an amateur frequency. Between the AMSAT "Amatuer Radio On ISS" and NASA Radio Reference links, you can find out everything you want to know about how to participate. |
Last Edited: 2013-09-02