The junk drawer contains short ham related programs and files that I have found to be helpful and fun to use. I have included some links to major FTP sites that have ham radio files to be downloaded. Have Fun! (Most files found here are compressed with PKZIP.) Get PKZIP or WINZIP programs here. ANTENNA DESIGNS VERTICAL and DIPOLE calculations A simple program for simple antennas. WIRE and BEAM antennas This program covers all the best antenna types. YAGIMAX The beam designers program! COIL IMPEDANCE and RESONANCE calculator Make your own traps. VSWR, IMP and LOSS Match your line to the antenna! MATCH IMPEDANCE More help with tuned circuits. LOADCOIL Calculate the loading coil on a 1/4 wave vertical. TRAPDIPOLE Calculate the traps for a dual band dipole. ENDFEED Calculate the network to match an end-fed wire. TOROID Calculate the inductance and resonance for toroidal cores. HELICAL3 Calculate dimensions for a helically wound vertical. KNOW YOUR COAX A Windows program to determine coax cable loss. EZNEZ for Windows DEMO Model your wire antennas to see how they radiate on the air! MMANA Get a Windows freeware antenna modeling program by JE3HHT. RF SAFETY CHECK Find out now if you meet the new FCC regs on RF safety. GRAPHICS (ANSI and ASCII) THEDRAW program Make and/or edit ANSI and ASCII files. THEDRAW fonts Additional fonts for TheDraw program; not great but free... DOS ANSI view program A good off-line viewer for your ANSI picture files. ASCII file #1 Small ascii files suitable for Pactor, G-tor and Packet modes. ASCII file #2 More small ascii picture files you may use on the air. ANSI file #1 Collection of ansi pictures suitable for on the air. ANSI file #2 More ansi pictures suitable for on the air. S-METER program Transmit signal strength and wx info via ascii picture. (Improved) OPERATING TOOLS HF HAM BAND ALLOCATIONS Ham class privileges given by band.   (or get .PDF file) WAS MAP Windows program to track your WAS progress. GRID SQUARE (Win95) World and US map gives correct heading for any grid square. ARRL Grid Locator Find your grid square location here and send it when working DX. ATOMIC TIME Quickly sync your computer to WWV! BEACON SEE (Win95) Test band conditions with this great system of automated HF ham beacons! WINTTY Windows freeware KAM and PK232 terminal program for operating RTTY & CW. SPECTRAN Hamview and other sound card DSP weak signal reading programs. KP TYPING TUTOR Windows or DOS version program can improve your skill. GREAT CIRCLE CHART Print your own personalised Great Circle Chart. DX ATLAS A Windows PC Atlas to find DX locations and more... RATE Program Will report the samplerate of your Windows system sound card. OTHER STUFF DXCC LIST For you DX hounds... EXTRA CLASS THEORY Up-grade your ticket! OHMS and WATTS calculator In case you have forgot how... ECHO LINK SYSTEM Ham Radio to Internet Voice Over IP. GUIDE TO HTML 2.0 Under stand how to write HTML and make web pages! MMSSTV Program Use your Win PC and sound card to operate SSTV! CHROMA SOUND Program Win9X/sound card DSP unit for your RX audio! SPECTROGRAM Spectrum Analyzer Use your Windows PC and sound card for audio analyzer. GET A FREE SECOND EMAIL BOX for your ham correspondence. FROM the INTERNET Web sites with ham radio files are constantly appearing and then disappearing from the Internet. Here are a few good sources for ham software that I will attempt to keep current: Sound Card Programs at NL9222's website. Various DSP Programs at HB9ZZ's website. Win95/98 files at CDROM.com(Simtel) General ham radio files from QRZ.com IZ8BLY's sound card programs are the standard for the digi bands! Run your favorite TNC from your Windows desktop! (Win95 too!) Get a "test drive" of XPWin now... The MixW Project UT2UZ's all-mode sound card program to integrate the most popular ham modes into one Windows interface with one log. Are you a Windows 3.1 or Win95/98 user? Your reward for making Bill Gates a wealthy man shall be... LOTS OF SOFTWARE! and MULTI MEDIA FILES! ...and if you dare to resist... DOS PROGRAMS and MACINTOSH SOFTWARE and LINUX PROGRAMS I'll keep an eye out for more interresting ham files to add. Last up-dated on: