TIME LINKS      

PROGRAMS TO SET YOUR COMPUTER TIME

About Time -- Sets your PC Clock or Server

AtomTime -- Sets ur Clock to world standards

SocketWatch -- Keep your PC clock accurate with the ultimate time client for Windows.

Atomic Clock Sync utility -- set your local PC time with the US Atomic Clock 

WEB PAGES ABOUT OR GIVING TIME 

All About Times -- GMT Zulu, UTC

World Time Zone .com -- Several WOW presentations

World Clock - Time Zones -- Local Time of many cities around the world.

HamClock -- Desk Top program for Time in the All DXCC Prefixes -- A Real Winner and its Free!!

Official US Time -- Precise UTC Time -- On Line - From Department of Commerce and NIST

U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock. -- Precise UTC Time -- On Line

Beacon Wizard -- Track the NCDXF Beacons and Sets your PC Clock to world standards

OSSYSTEMS -- Sets your PC Clock to world standards

NIST Java UTC Clock -- Precise UTC Time -- On Line

You Have Never Seen A Clock Like This One  

World Time Zone Map -- From The U.S. Naval Observatory

UTC/GMT Time Conversions To Local Time

Sunrise/Sunset, Gray line and UTC Time From HAB Software, Hamburg, Germany.

Sunrise/Sunset -- By City -- Moontimes also - From The U.S. Naval Observatory

Time And Frequency Stations -- WW Precise UTC Time and Frequencies

Standard ITU Phonetic Alphabet - Sometimes referred to as NATO Phonetics

A Zillion Phonetic Alphabets. -- Alpha, Baker, Cocoa, Dog.

DXers Phonetics --By AC6V - Unofficial Of Course!

Phonetic Alphabets -- Historic, English and others -- via J.W.Alcorn - VK2JWA

Language Translator -- Great DX Tool -- From SYSTRAN®

Language Translator -- Great DX Tool -- From FreeTranslation.com

 Morse Code Pages --Ultimate CW Pages

Morse Code Trainers --Many To Choose From 

AC6V's Guide To Q-Signals Commonly Used On HF

AC6V's Guide To Ham Q-Signals Commonly Used On VHF Repeaters

Q-Signals For Hams-- From The Lincoln Amateur Radio Club

More Q-Signals For Hams -- Washington State Net

MEGA Q-Signals -- An Old List Of Q-Signals From The 40's --- VERY LONG NOTE: Most of these are not used by Amateurs. Many for Navigation, Aviation, Marine, etc -- From The Wilderness Emergency Medical Services Institute

Another MEGA Q-Signals List -- Edition 1994, 1998 --- VERY LONG NOTE: Most of these are not used by Amateurs. Many for Navigation, Aviation, Marine, etc -- From Ralf D. Kloth - DL4T

Allied Communications Publications Many military comm manuals. See ACP131 for Official Q-Signals

The Missing Q-Signals -- Just For Fun

QN-Signals. -- For Net Use Only

Part 97 -- From The ARRL

US Third-Party Traffic Agreements From The ARRL

Pile Up Tapes -- Via Contesting.Com

Gray Line Program -- From PA3CQR

Gray Line Program -- From Alex Shovkoplyas, ex UR5EMI (now in VE3)

Grey Line Map -- Color greyline map that automatically refreshes every five minutes -- from DX.QSL.NET

Grey Line Map -- by John Walker (Fourmilab)

 GRID SQUARES   

Graphical traffic log Version 2.2.2 -- From Philippe F1TPL -- Locators displayed on maps, DXCC displayed on map, French department on map, Traffic log, Contest and report to EDI format, Audio caller, Statistics, graphics, Web cluster

DX Atlas 2.24 By VE3NEA   Has  menu that allows you to type in a grid square number and the program places a cursor on the map presentation allowing you to determine the US state or country/province. Also gives distance, bearing, and prefixes.

Artsci has a publication that although it is a repeater guide (excellent), it has a map of all USA states and the grid squares within that state. The map extends slightly beyond the state borders, so one can see a grid square that encompasses 2 or more states.

Grid Square Conversion (and distance calculation) provided by DK3VN

Grid Squares - WOW - World Wide - See This one! From VE2PIJ.

Grid Squares - WOW From WA5UUD Via The Six Meter World Wide DX Club

Grid Squares - WOW from ICOM -- Click on AMATEUR, then U.S. Grid Square Map (470 KB PDF)

Grid Squares -- From the ARRL Web -- on-line grid-square calculator. Grid-square calculator program for your computer. By hand, as explained in the QST Lab Notes PDF file

Grid Squares -- Find Grid Squares By callsign From BuckMaster

Grid Squares Map Of The USA

Grid Square Calculator -- Find Grid Squares By Long/Lat or find Long/Lat from Grid Squares --- From AMSAT

Your Grid Square can be found at QRZ.COM under Detailed Info. Also BUCKMASTER lists your grid square. Not as exact as the AMSAT method above.

Worked All Fields -- From The Field Hunters Home on the 'Net -- Sponsored by TOEC - Maintained by SM3OJR

HAM MAPS WITH PREFIXES  

  BEAM HEADINGS - DISTANCE BEARING      

DXCC Entity List / Beam Headings -- Enter Latitude and Longitude -- get Beam Heading and a DXCC Prefix List -- By Randy, W5UE

Amateur Radio ADF Is Back -- Highly Recommended From Gulf Coastal Software.

Great Prefix Finder -- From K4UTE Via NO4J -- A must see -- has Prefix, Country, Continent, CQ Zone, ITU Zone, Time, Lat/Long, Begin Date, End Date, Deleted information

DXCC Country List / Beam Headings -- From North Jersey DX Association

Distance and Bearing Finder. -- Enter 2 cities. Shows Distance, Beam Headings and maps -- By Bali Online

Beam Headings & Distance Excel Spreadsheet -- In zip form from K7NO

Beam Headings to DXCC Countries From The North Jersey DX Association

KawAZ is a Azimuth Angle Calculation Program for the Radio Amateur

DX View1.1.5 -- FreeWare.  Find heading, country, distance, zone info from callsign prefix --- Includes Maps, Greyline and More. An absolute MUST SEE

Beam DX  -- free software for radio amateurs or radio listeners. Allows to point an antenna towards an azimuth, a locator, an international prefix or any other geographical position on Earth predefined by its latitude and its longitude. Includes the DXCC list with their relevant geographical positions. From G. RIVAT F6DQM

QTH Locator -- By Klaus Evers's, DL3BAK -- Find Distance/Bearing and grid squares -- A Must See

Beam Headings By Using W6EL's Propagation Program

Beam Headings For The Mac -- From James Associates 

GcmWin - A program to make Great Circle Maps -- Via SM3GS

Online Map Creation using AZ_PROJ v1.1.6 Great Circle Maps

Geodetic II -- Distance/Bearing Finder - From Klaus-Dieter Scholz

GcmWin - A program to make Great Circle Maps -- Via SM3GS

Online Map Creation using AZ_PROJ v1.1.6 Great Circle Maps

Geodetic II -- Distance/Bearing Finder - From Klaus-Dieter Scholz

Great Circle calculations --  -GCGC by Ron McConnell W2IOL.

Great Circle Maps - azprj104.zip program - For any point on the earth.

Great Circle Distance and Bearing Calculator --On a Lotus spreadsheet -- - By David Stua

Formulae For Calculating Great Circle Heading and Distance Information

Also see DX and Contest Software

Calculating the Distance To The Horizon

A Calculator for Line Of Sight To The Horizon

Magnetic Declination/Variation Map -- From The Compass Store

WORLD LATITUDES AND LONGITUDES

World Latitudes & Longitudes -- Gives latitude and longitude of major cities around the world

USA Latitude/Longitude Position Finder -- Map Based Page to identify the latitude and longitude position of any point within the United States.

Global Gazetteer Version 2.1 -- Gives latitude and longitude of major cities around the world

Formulae For Calculating Great Circle Heading and Distance Information

All About Compasses -- From The Compass Store

Determining declination from magnetic north -- From The Compass Store

Zip Code Finder -- From The Horse's Mouth

Zip & Area Code Finder -- Click On "New General Combined Lookup" --- Zip/Area to County/City & Vice versa -- From Jay Computer Services

National Address Server -- Enter U.S. postal address -- gives zip code, map, and a Postscript or a GIF file of the address for printing.

Area Code Look-Up

Search for information for local areas by place names, zip codes, etc.

Geography links 

GCGC great circle (ellipsoid), lat/long/grid, MUF, miles/Watt, DX database DOS Command line calculator.  (eventually Linux)    http://home.earthlink.net/~rcmcc

Great Circle Bearing and Distance Calculator (Web's Best)  http://www.indo.com/distance

World & USA: Mapblast (lat/long now hidden in URL)  http://www.mapblast.com/

World & USA: Maporama, Address to Lat/Long & Map  http://www.maporama.com/share/

Worldwide Country City/Town Database (USGS + NIMA +...)
USA Geographical Locator: Montana State Univ. (Many maps...) http://www.esg.montana.edu/gl/

USA Latitude/Longitude Position Finder Map, 9-Step Zoom (Juggling Information Service web site?)  http://www.juggling.org/bin/un.cgi/map-find
 
Canada: Natural Resources Canada  http://geonames.nrcan.gc.ca/index.html

Australia: Place Names (gazeteer)  http://www.auslig.gov.au/mapping/names/natgaz.htm

Magnetic Declination/Variation vs. lat/lon, altitude, date http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/seg/gmag/fldsnth1.pl

Magnetic Declination/Variation on World Map: MAGVAR, under "Free Stuff" http://www.pangolin.co.nz/

Magnetic Declination/Variation World Map (PDF) http://www.thecompassstore.com/decvar.html

Royal Observatory at Greenwich: the beginning of the world Good information
   http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/

Bowditch American Practical Navigator web site  http://www.irbs.com/bowditch

Ed Williams's Spherical Navigation Formulas with examples http://williams.best.vwh.net/avform.html

Ed Williams's Spheroidal Navigation Tutorial http://williams.best.vwh.net/ellipsoid/ellipsoid.html

US NGS Ellipsoidal Earth Models, Vincenty Inverse & Forward http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PC_PROD/

Australian Mapping Agency: Geodosy reference, formulas, ... http://www.auslig.gov.au/geodesy

Omar Reis's Tecepe site with Celestial Navigation Tutorial & Navigator Light 3.0
http://www.tecepe.com.br/nav

Worldwide Amateur Radio Call Prefix to Lat/Long/etc "Most Complete"
 http://no4j.com/nfdxa/dxcc/dxcc.asp

Free Software: Forward/Inverse, Datum conversion, etc. http://www.mentorsoftwareinc.com/FREEBIE/freebies.htm

Marine Navigation Calculators: several http://164.214.12.145/calc/calc_options.html

GIS Data and Software, Free (Geocomm) http://www.geocomm.com/

Astronomical and Numerical Software Codes: http://www.moshier.net/
 
Historic Map Collection Online, David Rumsey "...6000 pieces, or about 150,000 individual cartographic items..."  http://www.davidrumsey.com/

Historic & Current Maps, Collection Online: Univ. Texas  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps

World Time Zone Map, CIA/PC  http://geography.about.com/cs/timetimezones/index_2.htm

World Time Zones/Maps/Clocks  http://www.worldtimezone.net/

World Time Server:  http://www.worldtimeserver.com/

Azimuthal-Equidistant Projection Maps: (Great Circle Maps) GCMWIN Az-Eq maps, SM3GSJ   http://hem.passagen.se/sm3gsj/
 

World Imagery Database (Photos from space)  http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/