Navigation Vessel Tracking Radio Links Weather Ham Gear Misc
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NAVIGATION AND BOATING LINKS
7th DISTRICT COAST GUARD LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS - In Adobe Acrobat pdf format.
ATLANTIC INTRACOASTAL WATERWAY ASSOCIATION - Group to encourage the continuation and further development of waterborne commerce and recreation on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
BAHAMAS INFORMATION - from Noonsite.com and is frequently updated by C6AGG.
BASRA - Bahamas Air Sea Rescue Association
BEST BOATING RESOURCES ON THE WEB - Good site with extensive list of boating links.
BRIDGE REGULATIONS ON ICW - Check for bridge schedules, etc.
CRUISER'S NET - General interest articles concerning the I.C.W., Bahamas and the Gulf of Mexico areas.
GEORGE TOWN CRUISING REGATTA - All there is to know about the George Town Cruising Regatta including pictures.
I.C.W. CHANNEL CONDITION SURVEY REPORTS - from the USACE.
ICW CRUISERS GUIDE - Cruising Info for the Atlantic I.C.W.
NAUTICAL CHARTS - View any NOAA chart. All should be up-to-date! Free!
NOONSITE.COM - Customs, immigration and general information on International cruising destinations.
S.E.A.R.C.H. - Search and Rescue Charitable Foundation. Search and rescue organization for the SW North Atlantic and Caribbean.
SEVEN SEAS CRUISING ASSN (SSCA) HF Radio Service Net - serves vessels from Nova Scotia to South America and over to Europe. On at 1215 hrs UTC on 8.104MHz with news from the Caribbean Safety and Security Net and Boatwatch.org. Usually on the afternoon Doo Dah Net, daily at 2100 hrs UTC on 8.152MHz.
U.S. COAST GUARD HOME PAGE - Home page of the USCG's main website.
U.S. COAST GUARD AUXILIARY - Links to various services offered by the Coast Guard Auxiliary.
USCG MARINE SAFETY SITE - Documentation, Licensing, Navigation rules, Marine safety, Environmental protection and more at this USCG site.
USCG NAVIGATION CENTER - GPS, DGPS, Loran C, Light lists, Nav pubs and documents.
USCG MARITIME COMMUNICATIONS - Navigation Center's Maritime Telecommunications site.
WATERWAY GUIDE - Good Source for waterway navigation updates.
WINLINK 2000 - Amateur radio E-mail, position reporting, and weather system.
VESSEL TRACKING
BOATWATCH - Worldwide Search Assistance for Lost and Overdue Boaters.
SHIPTRAK - Find any vessel using APRS or YOTREPS system (with history).
SAILWX - Excellent site for locating vessels, along with weather, tides, wave heights, etc.
RADIO LINKS
AIRMAIL - Web site of and download location for Airmail software. - also see WINLINK
AMSAT ADDRESS CHANGE / SIGNUP / DELETE - Site allows maintenance of e-mail forwarding on AMSAT.
ARRL - Home page of the American Radio Relay League.
ARRL CALL SIGN / NAME CROSS REFERENCE
AUTOMATIC POSITION REPORTING SYSTEM (APRS) - Software downloads and information on APRS operation - a VHF or HF packet system for automatically reporting geographic positions - also see APRS NET
FCC - AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE - The FCC Amateur home page.
FCC UNIVERSAL LICENSING SYSTEM (ULS) - The ULS home page.
GREAT LAKES MARINE MOBILE NET - Great Lakes Ham Radio Net. HF SSB and VHF amateur radio net for mariners on the Great Lakes.
NASA FREQUENCIES - List of frequencies for NASA retransmissions.
MARITIME MOBILE SERVICE NET - Web site of our friends at 14.300 MHz with net check-in procedures and Net protocol information.
STORMY WEATHER SOFTWARE - Access to ham radio pages and download full working version software for Tides, Astro Nav, Almanac, Yacht race management, Morse code and more.
WINLINK- Amateur radio E-mail, position reporting, and weather system.
WEATHER LINKS
BAHAMAS WEATHER FORECAST - Just click on chart for local forecasts.
BAROMETER BOB'S - Great site for Bahamas (esp. Abacos) and South Florida weather.
BEARPAWS - Best site I've found for tropical storm info. Compiles info from most other sites.
NWS MARINE FORECAST CONTACTS - Phone numbers, addresses, emails, etc.
NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER / TROPICAL PREDICTION CENTER - NOAA / NWS hurricane center home page - also available in a TEXT ONLY VERSION.
NATIONAL DATA BUOY CENTER (NDBC) - Home page of the NOAA / NWS Buoy center.
NDBC SOUTHEAST BUOY SITE MAP - Data buoy sites - Florida and Bahamas.
NEW NWS/NOAA ZONE MAPS
NOAA / NWS HOME PAGE - National Weather Service home page.
NOAA / NWS MARINE & COASTAL WEATHER SERVICES - Links to all NWS Marine forcasts and weather broadcast information.
NOAA / NWS WEATHER INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY - NWS Tallahassee weather links.
PASSAGE WEATHER - Wind, wave and weather forecasts.
STORM PULSE - Excellent Storm Tracking Page with Graphics, Interactive.
WORLD WIDE HF FAX AND WEATHER FREQUENCIES - Frequencies and schedules plus information on Wefax, Wxsat, SSTV, etc. contributed by W4AKE.
HAM GEAR LINKS
BLUEWATER BOOKS & CHARTS - Fort Lauderdale Nautical Book and Chart store.
CRUISING COMPANION PUBLICATIONS - Good material on HF and HF Mail by one of our own, Marti Brown KF4TRG.
CRUISING SERVICES & SUPPLIES - Sail mail installation & training.
DOCKSIDE RADIO - Punta Gorda, Florida supplier of PTC Modems - Good source for cruising net schedules.
FARALLON ELECTRONICS - San Rafael, CA supplier of ham gear and North American distributor of PTC modems (site lists all NA dealers).
HAM RADIO OUTLET - Nationwide ham radio stores.
ICOM - Icom America home page.
INTERNATIONAL MARINE PUBLISHING - McGraw-Hill's boating book and video division.
KENWOOD - Amateur Radio pages of Kenwood American division.
MFJ ENTERPRISES - Radio and ham gear manufacturer and supplier.
MICROPHONE CONNECTIONS - How to wire/re-wire almost any microphone.
SCS - Home page of SCS, the PTC modem manufacturers and Pactor software developers.
MISC
TELEGRAPH AND MORSE CODE - Info and links to Morse Code history, study techniques, hints, etc.