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https://nobarc.org/
The Northern Berkshire Amateur Radio Club (NoBARC) serves approximately 150 licensed ham radio operators in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, with repeaters positioned atop Mount Greylock at 3,500 feet providing coverage across a 250-300 mile radius. The site features meeting schedules, DXpedition presentations, repeater information, license classes, field day results, and resources for new hams.
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http://ap-i.net/avl/en/start
Virtual Moon Atlas (VMA) is a free, feature-rich lunar observation and study program for Windows and Linux, now in its ninth major version after over two decades of development. Downloaded nearly 2 million times worldwide, it has been used by the European Space Agency, CNRS research professors, and even to help prepare the Chandrayaan 1 lunar mission.
https://spacewatch.lpl.arizona.edu/fmo-project/overview
The SPACEWATCH® FMO Project, run by the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, documents the detection of Fast Moving Objects, which are near-Earth asteroids passing so close that they appear as light trails in telescope imagery. The site explains the science behind close-approach asteroid detection, shares discovery images, and describes the citizen participation program that once helped identify faint FMOs.
https://nsml.org/
The North Suburban Math League (NSML) organizes competitive math meets for Chicago-area high schools, with five competitions held throughout the school year. The site provides contest archives, meet schedules, written and oral topic lists, coach resources, and a history of NSML alumni who have earned medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad.
https://qsl.net/k3mx
The Tri-State DX Association (K3MX) is an amateur radio club based in Matamoras, Pennsylvania, serving operators near the New York and New Jersey borders with a focus on HF DX chasing and contesting. Founded in 1996, the club logs contest results like the Pennsylvania QSO Party and emphasizes emergency traffic handling, international goodwill, and good station engineering.
https://mo-www.cfa.harvard.edu/OWN/about.html
MicroObservatory is an internet-controlled robotic telescope network developed by scientists and educators at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, designed to let students across the country capture real deep-sky images from their classrooms. Visitors can control telescopes remotely, analyze astronomical images, and access educational projects tied to NASA's educational mission.
http://schematicsforfree.com/
SchematicsForFree is a volunteer-run archive offering free electronics schematics, circuit diagrams, and service manuals covering audio, video, automotive, and test equipment. Updated regularly since 2022, it embodies the original open-sharing spirit of the web, providing hard-to-find technical documents at no cost.
https://pierplates.com/
Dan's Pier Top Plates is a small business site selling custom mounting hardware for backyard telescopes, including pier top plate systems, DIY telescope enclosures, and adapters for metal piers. Hobbyist astronomers looking to build a permanent concrete or metal telescope pier for a home observatory will find products, FAQs, and installation guides here.
https://astronomynotes.com/
Nick Strobel's Astronomy Notes is a comprehensive, free educational resource covering introductory astronomy topics from the scientific method and history of astronomy to planetary science, relativity, and telescopes. Originally created for college-level astronomy courses, the site has been widely copied across the web and is also available as a purchasable hardcopy book through Kendall Hunt.
https://mrasz.hu/
The Magyar Rádióamatőr Szövetség (MRASZ) is the official national amateur radio society of Hungary, organizing contests, events, and news across shortwave, UHF, radio direction finding, and high-speed telegraphy disciplines. The site features competition announcements, a QSL bureau, licensing information from the NMHH authority, and resources for Hungarian radio amateurs at all levels.