Dave's Homemade Radios External Links Page

Dave's Homemade Radios Links Page

Hi friends. As you know, linking sites is important. This is perhaps how you got to my site, and when you are done with my site, you can go to the next perhaps using a link found here. As owner of this website, it is my decision what links will appear here. The main rule is, the link has to go to a site that will benefit my visitor.

Link requests

I do add radio related links when requested to do so. I will not link sites that have poop up ads or other annoyances. For less than $40 a year, you can buy space on a web farm. There may be other reasons that I won't link to a requested site, but overall, I am pretty friendly. You should be willing to link to me on your site, if requested. Because you link to me, that does not obligate me to link to you, unless I agree in advance. I add only text links.

Linking to me

My main radio page is http://www.makearadio.com/index.php. This is a non-commercial web site. Nothing is sold here. I would be honored if you link to me. You may link to any page that I offer. Let me know where you linked so I may enjoy your pages too. I offer banners for external links. They are at the bottom of this page, or please take something you see here and make it into a banner.

Linking In Frames

If your website places links in frames, please don't link to me. If you aren't sure, place the link in your page, upload it to your server. Click on the link. If your URL, and not mine shows in your browser, That means that you have put my page in a frame and thus taken ownership of it.

All these links are offered without any warranties or guarantees. I have found these sites to be useful. Your mileage will vary.

Links last checked on june 25,2021

Radio Links

Great links for beginners to start!

Skywaves pages

Radio Plans and Projects

makearadio.com this site.
Boydhouse - crystalradio.net Tons of great crystal set info on this site.
Fun With Tubes. Check out all the projects and advice here. It's great.
WA2ISE Info and hotrodding with AA5 radios.
Al Peter's Amplified DX Crystal Set. Very nicely done!
Bob's Electron Bunker Some unique radio projets.
Kevin's Crystal Set Projects,with schematics.

Publications Online

American Radio History Download old magazines in PDF.

Historical and Museums

Antique Wireless Museum, and nearly in my backyard!
Wumpus Old Radio World Crystal set information and history.
Radio Museum from France
Spark Museum Lots of fine radios. Take a look.
Inland Marine Radio History Archive Radio communications from an earlier era.

Old Radio Circuit Information

Regenerative and Reflex Receivers, with basic old time descriptions.
Boat Anchor Manual Archive Free radio manual downloads.
Mirror site for the above BAMC site.
AB0CW Homemade tube radios
Download Schematics For Free! Bogen Amplifier Schematics.
Nostalgia Air Lots of circuits of old sets.

Tube Data Sites

magiceyetubes.com A well done site about magic eye tubes.
Franks Electron Tube Website from Holland.
Tubebooks.org Lots of old radio books and tube manuals here.

Contests

Crystal Set building contest. Some really cool sets.
crystalradio.us Home of the Elmer crystal radio DX and 1AD contests.
RadioContest A summer contest for all homemade radios.

Kits and Ready Made Crystal Sets

Peebles Originals 50's style kits. Great!
Vectronics Crystal sets and other receiver kits.
Galena Century Radios A new (to me) site with some very beautiful radios and kits for sale.

Friends Pages

Peebles Originals Mike has a good site.
Gary's MainpageWD4NKA has a lot to show you.
Jim's Crystal radio page. Jim offers a high performance crystal set kit in his Hobbydyne series.
Dick Kleijer's Crystal radio site from Holland. Check it out.
UX-45 Some amazing homemade portable tube radios from Japan.
Jeff Duntermann's 12 volt space charged tube resource.
Exray's 1920's radio reproductions.
Gabriele Rizzi, IV3MIR Radio Blog Radio & loop projects. Written in Italian.
Radio Xtal Set, Carlos from Argentina presents his well built radios.
Frank Marx, PA2MRX radio website written in Dutch.
Jayce's Vintage Radios A nice collection of transistor radios.

Clubs and Forums

The Radioboard forum. Join the fun!
Antique Radios, a very large forum.
Heart of England Crystal Radio Club showing mostly UK handmade radios.

Engineering

Guest technical articles on my website.
Scott's crystal set site, and headphone information.
Galena data information.
Galena, more information.
Propagation info
Crystal Radio Engineering a web book by Kenneth Kuhn

Databases

FCC AM Station Database
Radio Locator
Clear channel station list (50kw stations, not the company)
The Datasheet Archive Search engine for electronic component datasheets.
Schematics Unlimited Hundreds of schematics!

Calculators

Flat coil inductance calculator
Variometer Calculator

Software

Tubepad This is how I now draw the schematics (#8 and later).
Schematic Symbols Library (check the bottom of my downloadspage for more info.)
DXtreme Software Radio logging software.

Radio Collection and Restoration

Radiomuseum.org Catalogue for Boatanchors with more than 16,000 printable schematics.
Antique Radios with forum, and lots of information.

Recommended Commercial Sites

Brass Binding Posts adds a lot of class to your projects!
MWS Wire Litz wire available here. Great service too!
Play Things Of Past Lots of old radio parts.
Leeds Radio A great old firm that got it's start in the 1920's.
Geoff's Crystal Radio Parts, all made in the UK.
The Xtalman Borden Radio Co. – Kits and Parts

Other Cool pages found on the web.

Radio Animation Building a radio!
K4ADL ham radio cartoons A real piece of work.

Audio & Video Podcasts

HAM Nation The TWiT Network

Blogs

The SWLing Post A lot of neat info for the short wave listener.

Deutsche Webseiten - German Websites

Jogi's tube radio site in german. Lots of pictures too.
Wumpus Welt der Radios Detektorradio und mehr.

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