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https://n5yk.tripod.com/
Randy Ashley (callsign N5YK) shares his personal homepage centered on amateur ham radio, with interests in contesting, 6 meter band, DXing, and RTTY operating from McAllen, Texas. The site also touches on his secondary hobbies of scuba diving and Dutch oven cooking, with links to local Rio Grande Valley ham radio clubs and related resources.
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http://nekaal.org/doku.php
NEKAAL (Northeast Kansas Amateur Astronomers' League Inc.) is the official site for an astronomy club based in Northeast Kansas, home to the Farpoint Observatory. Visitors can find upcoming public astronomy nights, general meeting schedules, astro images, observer archives, and links to educational resources for amateur stargazers.
https://repeater-builder.com/
Repeater Builder is a dedicated resource for amateur radio enthusiasts focused on building, modifying, and maintaining repeater systems. The site dives into the technical side of ham radio infrastructure, making it a go-to reference for hobbyists who want to construct or upgrade their own repeaters.
https://qsl.net/kd5fjm
The Dyess AFB Amateur Radio Club (DARC), callsign KD5FJM, is the official ham radio club for Dyess Air Force Base in Texas, featuring links to club news, member lists, station info, SKYWARN severe weather resources, and AF MARS connections. The site reflects a club in transition, actively seeking new leadership to revitalize its activities among amateur radio operators in the Dyess area.
https://radio-ware.com/
Radioware is a hobbyist catalog and bookstore supplying antennas, cables, and accessories to amateur radio, scanner, and shortwave listeners. It serves as a one-stop shop for radio enthusiasts looking for gear spanning ham radio, CB, and SWL equipment.
http://rainforest.gardenwebs.net/
Stern's Splendors of the Rain Forest is a richly illustrated site dedicated to tropical plants, focusing on orchids, bromeliads, tillandsias, cacti, and succulents native to the Americas. Featuring exotic photo galleries, cultural guides, and links to major plant societies worldwide, it serves as an enthusiast's showcase for rain forest horticulture.
https://n7kom.com/
N7KOM is the personal site of a Pacific Northwest ham radio operator specializing in QRP portable operations and Summits On The Air (SOTA) activations. Visitors will find a QRP trap kit build guide, a getting-started SOTA resource, and links to a YouTube channel, stickers, and the Cascadia Radio Discord community.
http://wordwizz.com/pwrsof10.htm
Bruce Bryson's 'Quarks to Quasars' takes visitors on a visual journey through the universe using powers of ten, spanning from subatomic particles smaller than 10^-18 meters to the observable cosmos at 10^26 meters. With nearly 200 pages of original drawings and images, each step in scale reveals ten times more or less of the universe, making it a deeply immersive and educational exploration of cosmic scale.
https://uh.edu/~jclarage/astr3131/lectures/4/einstein/Einstein_stanford_Page7.html
A lecture page from a University of Houston astronomy course (ASTR 3131) explaining Einstein's theory of general relativity and the concept of curved spacetime. It covers how mass and energy deform the fabric of spacetime, using accessible analogies like a ball on a bedsheet to illustrate four-dimensional curvature.
http://dxing.info/introduction.dx
DXing.info, created by Mika Mäkeläinen, is a comprehensive guide to the hobby of DXing, the practice of listening to distant and foreign radio stations far outside their normal coverage areas. The site covers equipment, propagation, a DX glossary, expedition logs from countries like Australia, Finland, and South Africa, and audio samples of rare distant broadcasts.