links
So many links, so little space to put them in.......
This is just a smattering of my own favourite links. If you have a link you'd like to appear here please send to M0XUK at this web address.

club members' sites, other nearby clubs, and general

Team ThunderboxM0OTM, M0KGV, M0OZD & Terry.
TDARC Trowbridge & District Amateur Radio Club (seems to be broken!)
CDARC Chippenham & District Amateur Radio Club
AC6V - if you can't find a link here it probably doesn't exist!
GM3SEK's very useful pages - writer of Radcom's 'In Practice' pages. Co-author of 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'. Sadly no longer in print (why?) - get hold of a copy if you can. The best book I have ever read for VHF/UHF.

components & hardware (liitle fellas only - big fellas please sponsor the club...)

Wires.co.uk great source for all sorts of copper/silver/gold(!) wire at reasonable prices.
Ham Radio Supplies new company on the block!
JABDOG - run by Peter G7JAB. Excellent service, good range.
Sycom- run by Robin Sykes, G3NFV
Bowood Electronics lots of stuff from Bakewell
Quartslab - crystals
W.H Westlake Electronics- run by Henry Westlake, G8MWW
G H Engineering- some difficult to obtain components here
Barend Hendriksen - you'll find it in the Netherlands....
Moonraker UK Ltd - antennae from a British company.
Waters & Stanton PLC
ICOM UK
Datasheet archive - fantastic resource for component datasheets
Yaesu UK

Hardings Electronics - little shop in Cheltenham selling basic components - 333 High St, tel: 01242 231127.

'official' sites

Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) - join now if you value the future of your licence!
Office of Communications - it's big, but not clever. But it is here...
AMSAT-UK the UK organisation for amateur satellites
ARRL - American Radio Relay League. great site. excellent magazine. join now.

learning about electronics etc.

On this site : Crystals to Sideband - truly excellent book about electronics and homebrewing by Frank Harris , K0IYE.

Ibiblio.org - fantastic PDF online resource with a web based mirror at All About Circuits

rig reviews etc.

eHam.net - the biggest and best
Foxtango - free Yaesu manuals
Mods.dk- free manuals rig mods, excellent

software

DX Lab Suite- THE most comprehensive FREE suite of programmes for the DX'er
Ham Radio Deluxe- rig control, logging and more. AND it's free!
Radio Mobile - absolutely awesome FREE prog for predicting radio performance. You'll need this site too: NGA
DL5SWB's page - can't praise his free software enough
DL4YHF's page - download spectrum laboratory. it's brilliant.
WinCap Wizard- excellent propagation prediction tool. worth every penny
Eagle- excellent schematic and board editor with free version
AADE - download a free filter design programme. buy the LC meter - it's great too - I use mine daily
GNU Octave - very powerful maths software with a deceptively simple GUI. Brilliant for electronics calculations.
Electronics Assistant - You just have to download this to make your life a little easier....