DX QSL CARDS - Find out what a QSL Card is and How to Address your QSL Card along with the correct way to fill out the proper information.

I find working Amateur Radio DX an incredible lesson in social studies and geography or maybe better said, Cultural Studies. How many of you can tell me where Belarus is located? Well not only can a DXer tell you where Belarus is but also he/she can pull out a few post cards from friends they met on the air from Belarus. Often we share a few nice words while in contact with Ham Radio Operators from other countries making U.S. citizens less the Imperialist some others in foreign countries might think of us as.

Other than the political benefits of being a DXer, a DXer needs to have a grasp on the science of radio propagation. Just what does that SFI, K and A index mean? What is MUF? What is the grey line? Those are just some of the mysteries we hope to reveal here in the DX handbook and hopefully in a language somebody other than a MIT professor can understand.

General Class Course for Ham Radio Licensing

Now many a DXer has a very impressive radio station at there home QTH. I know of DXers who have invested thousands of green stamps (dollars) in there stations. While I also have friends that might have a simple thirty year old FT-101E transceiver along with a simple inverted vee antenna. So the point is, one doesn't need stacked mono-banders, high powered amplifiers and $7k+ transceivers to work DX (but it doesn't hurt). For the first time in my Ham life I own a new store bought HF transceiver. My home station consist of a Yaesu FT-2000,  and a C3SS Force 12 beam antenna on a U.S. Tower model MA-40.