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Faster than a list of bookmarks, this week we visit a Web page for starting up your ham radio Internet travels.

HamPage.com is an Amateur Radio Web start page (or "jump page") with categorized links to must-see online ham radio information. This site is a timesaving default browser page for ham shack computers.

Hampage.com can accelerate your ham radio navigation of the Internet .

Open up your browser with HamPage.com and with one click and no scrolling, you can go to major Amateur Radio Web sites, as well as popular and useful radio resources on the Internet. For example, you can quickly go to major sites like the ARRL and RAC home pages, check the UTC time, pull up a grey line map, perform a DX prefix lookup, check propagation at NW7US's site, go directly to eBay's ham radio page, etc.

Ted Gausmann, W4TLG, the man behind HamPage.com, admits, "I've always struggled with finding my favorite Web sites or pages in my bookmarks, or fumble-fingered URLs as I tried remembering if something was a '.net' or a '.com.'"

So, Ted created HamPage.com with carefully-selected categorized links to popular and useful resources on a one screen-size page. Neat!

Still On Vacation Yet

Is the summer half over or half beginning? I guess it depends on whether or not you have taken your summer vacation yet. For those of you who have not, here is one more radio-related venue to visit while vacationing. (See the previous two installments of Surfin' for the other venues.)

Massachusetts

South Wellfleet, Cape Cod, MA: Marconi Station is the site of the ruins of the station from which Marconi successfully completed the first transatlantic wireless communication between the US and England in 1903. There is also a spark gap transmitter in the visitor's center. (Thanks to N3WNG)

Also, my apologies to W6ESL for mangling his call sign in the previous installment of this column. Tom was one of the folks suggesting that I include the ARRL headquarters and W1AW non-museum museum in my list of vacation musts.

Until next week, keep on surfin'

Editor's note: Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, has bookmarked so many favorite Web sites and pages that he needs Google to find anything! To discuss antiques, radios, antique radios, and other important or neat stuff with Stan, send him e-mail at wa1lou@arrl.net.

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