South Orange C
The South Orange Amateur Radio Association,P.O. Box 2545, Mission Viejo, Ca. 92690, E-Mail: soara@soara.org
The ham radio club serving Southern Orange County, California.

Below are a collection of external links that may be of interest to SOARA members. The links were working as of August 2003 but since the world wide web is dynamic there is no guarantee that they are still working now.

Please let us (mailto:soara@soara.org) know if you have problems accessing these sites. We would also like to know of any other sites that may be of interest to our members.
SOARA is not responsible for the content of these sites.

Organizations

www.kkn.net/n6aa/ ARRL SW Division home page

www.qsl.net/arrl-orange ARRL Orange Section home page

www.amsat.org The launch pad for amateur satellite info.

www.tapr.org Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Corp - Packet, APRS etc.

http://www.qsl.net/ocskywarn/ Our local SKYWARN site.

www.arnewsline.org/ Official Website of Amateur Radio Newsline

www.thunter.org Southern California Transmitter Hunters

www.homingin.com All About Radio Direction Finding (RDF)

www.tasma.org Two-Meter Area Spectrum Management Association

atn-tv.org The Amateur Television Network

www.lwca.org The Longwave Club of America

members.aol.com/trekkspill/Longwaveradio.html - Kriss Larson's (KG6UOS) pages on longwaves.

www.ocastronomers.org Ok, so its not ham radio but, there are many members who are into both radio and astronomy. The OCA is one of the largest amateur astronomy clubs in the world.

Emergency Support Information

www.ocraces.org/ Orange County Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service

www.races.net National RACES page.

www.arrl.org/FandES/field/pscm/sec1-ch1.html Info about ARES from the ARRL

members.aol.com/emcom4hosp/ Hospital Disaster Support Communications System

sbvpc.org/ The Saddleback Valley Emergency Preparedness Committee

www.mesac.net MESAC - Costa Mesa Communicators

www.cityofirvine.org/ipd/info_center/idec_ham_radio.asp IDEC - Irvine Disaster Emergency Communications

soara.org/lbact/ LBACT The Laguna Beach Auxiliary Communications Team

http://www.ci.laguna-niguel.ca.us/index.asp?SID=301 Laguna Niguel ACS

www.qsl.net/races-ares/ Mission Viejo RACES/ARES

www.oc-redcross.org/main/show.asp?topic=VOL_OFFVOL&lngkey=en Red Cross

www.w6ocs.org/ LEARN - Law Enforcement Amateur Radio Network

Information

www.eham.com "Ham radio on the net"

www.aa9pw.com A great site for taking practice tests.

www.usrepeaters.com USRepeaters.Com offers up-to-date repeater information for Ham radio operators.

www.vanityhq.com Amateur Radio Vanity Call Sign Headquarters. The site to visit if you want to get rid of some letters.

www.heavens-above.com Find out about the satellites that you can hear and see from Mission Viejo.

www.irlp.net Home page for the Internet Radio Linking Project

www.echolink.org/ Echolink home page

dx.qsl.net/propagation/propagation.html Near real time HF propagation data from many sources.

www.contesting.com Contest info.

www.dxzone.com LOTS of links to amateur radio sites.

quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs Recent earthquakes in California

www.freqofnature.com For scanner enthusiasts and folks with wide coverage  RX on their HTs

www.cebik.com W4RNL's antenna page - fantastic page with lots of detailed info about antennas - a MUST read.

www.ac6v.com Links to hundreds of amateur radio sites.

www.spacearchive.info A local astronomy / space site including information about launches from Vandenberg. Site is maintained by Brian Webb, kd6nrp.

www.qsl.net/599 Tuck NZ6T

Software

www.qsl.net/mmhamsoft/ - FREE HAM RADIO SOUNDCARD SOFTWARE

pages.cthome.net/n1mm/ - FREE contest logging software

www.benlo.com/dxmon.html - DXMon - dx spotting software

www.nvbb.net/~jaffejim/mixwpage.htm - MIXW software

iz8bly.sysonline.it/Stream/index.htm - STREAM software

www.qsl.net/hamscope/ - HAMSCOPE

www.digipan.net/ - DIGIPAN

Dealers

www.texastowers.com Texas Towers

Manufacturers

www.westmountainradio.com/ Rigblaster

www.packetradio.com/psk31.htm Buxcomm