Amateur Radio Sites

Amateur Radio Newsline

ARRL (American Radio Relay League) Home Page

JPL Amateur Radio Club Home Page

U.S. Amateur Radio Callsign Lookup Page

Fun Stuff

Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach, California.

This world class aquarium opened on June 20, 1998.

California Coastal Records Project is creating an aerial photographic survey of the California Coast.

California Wild: Natural Sciences for Thinking Animals (online magazine)


California Wild, features the Golden State's extraordinary biological and geographical diversity, while serving as a naturalist's guide to the state by offering practical advice on where to go, what to see and what to do in California.

The Capitol Steps Home Page

Chicago Approach

Listen to live transmissions (using RealAudio) of the Chicago Approach frequency, transmitted from O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois. This frequency is used for IFR arrivals and departures for the west suburban satellite airports of O'Hare.

Colossal Humor Page

The Dilbert Zone

HeroicStories by Randy Cassingham

You always hear about the people who do wrong, hurt others, take advantage, rob and steal. But they are the minority. HeroicStories are about everyday real people who step up to the challenge and do right when things go wrong. It's not just the people who save lives or stop a crime, but the stories are true, they're from all over the world and, most of all, they're interesting.

The Internet Move Database

Search their data base of over one million records, including over 75,000 movies.

Los Angeles Zoo

Los Angeles SOCAL Approach. Listen to the Los Angeles Approach Control.

Live air traffic control Los Angeles International Live RADAR from Los Angeles International Airport
    (A little slow to load)

San Francisco History by Subject


A great place for anything about San Francisco.

Four pages about Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.


Norton 1, Emperor of the United States
Emperor Norton
Emperor Joshua Norton I
Norton 1 Welcomes You to His Archives

This is True by Randy Cassingham

This is True is a weekly syndicated newspaper column by Randy Cassingham. It is a commentary on the news, and reports on bizarre-but-true news items from "legitimate" printed news sources from around the world. Each story is punctuated with commentary by Randy -- a tagline which is humorous, ironic or opinionated -- withluck, some combination, or even all three.

The Urban legends Archive

  The Watley Review.
    "The Watley Review is dedicated to the production of articles completely without journalistic merit or factual basis..."

Yesterland.com Home Page
     A "Theme Park" on the web, that features discontinued Disneyland attractions. Great Fun!!

The WorldWideWeb Acronym and Abbreviation Server

Berkeley Public Library's Index to the Internet This site has a massive "Bookmarks" section which is great!

If you can't access this site try BPL's Berkeley Public Library Home Page and click on "Index to the net."

Mike Boschat's Astronomy Page
    This site has a massive astronomy reference list!


The "Clear Sky Clock" shows predictions of when the Mount Wilson Observatory (California)
    will have good weather for astronomical observing.
    Mount Wilson is about 15 (air) miles north of downtown Los Angeles.

The Clear Sky Clock Search Page will show you the sky conditions at selected sites up to about 120 miles from Mt. Wilson.

The Constellations web page, by Richard Dibon-Smith.

This site has all kinds of information relating to the 88 constellations: first the Greek myths of each constellation (or rather, of those constellations which have a myth), and then lots of data on many of the stars themselves, such as their visual magnitude, distance, etc.

The Currency Calculator

Need to convert from one countries money to another? This site will do it for you.

TheHistoryNet:Article Index

I have always liked history. This site has about 624 historical articles on it.

The Wonderful World of Insects


The Internet Public Library Reference Center

The Ultimate in internet references! The Library is hosted by the School of Information at the University of Michigan.

Kelly Blue Book Used Car Values and New Car Pricing

Los Angeles Times Web Site Los Angeles's Newspaper is on line.

List of Dictionaries Yes, I love dictionaries.

NASA WATCH

This is NOT a NASA website!

The Quotations Page

U.S. Post Office: ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information

I have fallen in love with Web Cameras! Listed below are a few sites that I really like, plus many sites that have listings of cameras.

Antarctica, Four live webcam pictures from Antarctica

If you are intrested in Antarctica, visit the Australian Antarctic Division Home Page.

Caltrans Live Traffic Cameras
Caltrans has a beta test version of there camera system. This site has a limited number of traffic cameras from around the state..

Italian Volcanos Page

Mt. Etna, Stromboli, and Vulcano all have web cameras on them. You can see any eruption here.
Mt Etna Web Cam
Stromboli Cam
Vulcano Cam

Livermore's Centennial Light Bulb Cam A Web Cam on the worlds oldest operating light bulb! In operation since 1901!

Mt. Wilson The 150-Foot Solar Tower Current Towercam Image

A View from the top of the 150-foot solar tower telescope at the Mt. Wilson Observatory. Located about 25 miles north east of downtown Los Angeles. Daylight only

Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam

Old Faithful WebCam

Panama Canal Cam

This camera shows operations at the Miraflores Locks, Gatun Locks, and other points of interest in the Panama Canal.

Pier Cam - Santa Monica, California

Live picture from the Santa Monica Pier. Updated every 10 minutes, looking south toward the Pier and the Pacific Ocean.

Web Cameras located near the Pacific Ocean, in Oregon.

Oregon Road Cams From the Oregon DOT.

Newport, Oregon Cam

Waldport, Oregon

Yachats, Oregon A view of the Pacific (From the Adobe Resort.)

Sea Lion Caves, Florence, Oregon

Harbor Vista WebCam, Florence, Oregon

Bandon, Oregon

Pier Cam - Santa Monica, California
Live picture from the Santa Monica Pier. Updated every 10 minutes, looking south toward the Pier and the Pacific Ocean.

City of Tucson I have always said I could live anywhere in the US, as long as it was south of Santa Barbara and west
    of San Bernardino. I have added Tucson to that criteria.

Live View of Yosemite Valley

Railroad Web Cameras

Dunsmuir RailCam Dunsmuir, California.

Situated near the California and Oregon border, the Dunsmuir RailCam captures trains as they pass through on the I-5 cooridor, the main rail artery linking the Pacific Northwest with California. This system is funded by the Dunsmuir Chamber of Commerce and operates around the clock.


Railroad Webcams Sponsored by TrainWeb.

Railroad Webcams has eight cameras in Fullerton, CA, and cameras in Santa Ana, CA, Portland, OR & Olympia/Lacy, WA

Tehachapi RailCam Tehachapi, California.

The Tehachapi RailCam is where you can see the last five trains to pass through Tehachapi, the busiest single track mainline in the world! Images are posted within 2 minutes after the locomotives pass. (The camera operates during the daylight hours only, and stores the images).

Lists of Web Cameras

Weather Net;Weather Cams

Weather Net's newly-expanded WeatherCams page provides access to over 700 weather cameras across North America. Just click on there links and travel to your favorite city or resort.

WebCam Central

Over 1100 cameras listed here.

WebWinds Web Cams. Links and Collections

This site claims to have the Top Worldwide Web Cameras.

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