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https://astunit.com/astunit_tutorial.php?topic=glossary
The Astronomical Unit is a comprehensive astronomy tutorial site covering everything from choosing a first telescope to positional astronomy, stellar evolution, and debunking pseudoastronomy claims. Visitors will find practical guides, a detailed glossary, book recommendations, DIY telescope projects, and rigorous critiques of popular astronomical myths like the '2012 nonsense' and Apollo conspiracy theories.
https://umass.edu/rso/hamradio
The official homepage of the UMASS Amateur Radio Club (callsign W1PUO), a student-run club at the University of Massachusetts Amherst founded in 1996 by College of Engineering students. The club offers a shared radio shack, licensing classes for prospective hams, and public service events open to all five-college university students, faculty, staff, and their families.
http://hamradio.de/
Hamradio.de is a German-language community hub for amateur radio enthusiasts, offering a fleamarket for used equipment, forums, contesting resources, club directories, and software. With sections dedicated to awards, DX, and contests, it serves as a comprehensive gathering point for the German-speaking ham radio community.
https://astronomyonline.org/
Built by a legally blind photographer and astronomer, Astronomy Online is a comprehensive resource covering topics from astrophotography and the solar system to cosmology, astrobiology, and exoplanets. The site includes observation guides, a worksheet library for teachers, software recommendations, and an image gallery, making it a remarkable contribution from someone who created it despite a significant physical disability.
http://meteoritemarket.com/
The Meteorite Market has been one of the web's oldest meteorite dealers since 1995, offering over 100 scientifically significant varieties including Martian, Lunar, Pallasite, and Carbonaceous Chondrite specimens with detailed photos and pricing. Visitors can browse an extensive alphabetical catalog while learning about meteorite types through dozens of informational pages, making it both a shopping destination and an educational resource for collectors and enthusiasts alike.
https://nrao.edu/pr/2000/vla20/background
A commemorative background page from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory celebrating the VLA radio telescope's first twenty years of scientific discovery, covering breakthroughs from Mercury's icy poles to gravitational lenses and gamma ray bursts. Packed with links to research highlights, aerial photos, visitor information, and introductory radio astronomy materials, it serves as both a historical record and an educational gateway to one of the world's most powerful telescopes.
https://sfarc.org/
The San Francisco Radio Club (SFRC) is the hub for ham radio enthusiasts in the Bay Area, offering information on club meetings, repeaters, nets, and a rich archive of events like Field Day activations and SOTA expeditions. With resources covering everything from licensing classes to equipment lending and digital modes like DMR, D-STAR, and APRS, it serves both newcomers and seasoned operators alike.
http://virtualcolony.com/sac
The Deep Sky Database is an online observing list generator for amateur astronomers, drawing on the Saguaro Astronomy Club's meticulously maintained databases to help users search for galaxies, nebulae, star clusters, double stars, asterisms, and more. Built on decades of collaborative contributions from club members, it offers searchable access to well-known catalogs including Messier, Caldwell, Herschel 400, and Herschel 2500 objects, making it a practical planning tool for backyard stargazers.
https://www.qsl.net/kc4gzx/kc4gzx/index.htm
KC4GZX is a ham radio enthusiast's site packed with homebrew DIY projects covering antennas, amplifiers, filters, transmitters, receivers, and test equipment. It also serves as a regional resource for Northeast Georgia amateur radio operators, featuring ham directories, repeater listings for multiple southeastern states, and hamfest schedules.
https://theworld.com/~jgarrett
John Garrett's quirky early-web homepage introduces himself with offbeat humor and references his work as a sound man, along with a link to listening to 'voices from outer space.' The site has a charmingly chaotic old-web personality with scattered sections labeled 'Things N Stuff' and 'Point and Click,' making it a fun time capsule of early internet personal pages.