I was asked by the programming director of my local amateur radio club to put together a presentation about the benefits of social media and online tools of amateur radio.
The presentation covers the use of the Big Three — Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube — plus the new myARRL and homebrewed social networking sites that can benefit amateur radio by connecting amateur radio operators together and expose non-licensees to our hobby. Other new online technologies related to amateur radio are discussed in the presentation.
Some of the websites mentioned have been discussed on this weblog before, and other websites will also be discussed on this weblog at a later time.
If you missed the presentation, you can download the presentation in the following formats:
- PPT PowerPoint format (10 megabytes, in a ZIP file)
- PDF Adobe Reader format (42 megabytes)
The websites that were featured in the presentation (plus some bonus websites) are listed below:
- Des Moines Radio Amateurs’ Association
- Amateur Radio Technical Society
- Mid-Iowa Skywarn Association
- YouTube
- ARRL
- How to navigate the new ARRL website
- myARRL profile management (must be logged in)
- 73s.org
- Ham Radio Nation
- The Practical Amateur Radio Podcast
- This Week in Amateur Radio Podcast
- QRZ
- Google Maps APRS
- K6IB 3D APRS
- K5EHX Repeater Mapping
- callbyTXT
- RadioReference
- DX Clusters
- Reverse Beacon Network
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