QRZ.com
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| Database of amateur radio callsigns | |
| languages | English |
| On-line | 1993 (currently online) |
| https://www.qrz.com/ | |
QRZ.com is a freely accessible and free website and online - database for radio amateurs . In addition to a forum for exchanging views and for information on the subject of amateur radio , it offers every radio amateur the opportunity to introduce themselves and their radio station . Above all, however, it provides an extensive directory of international amateur radio call signs as well as a log file of the radio links (QSOs) conducted among one another .
etymology
The three letters QRZ are an abbreviation from the group of Q keys commonly used in amateur radio and mean the callsign of a radio amateur. Instead of the question “What is your callsign?”, You could just send “QRZ?” Much shorter with the same meaning. One possible interpretation of QRZ.com is "callsign database".
history
QRZ.com was launched in 1992 by the American radio amateur Fred Lloyd (callsign AA7BQ). Derived was from a precursor program called Call Sign Project ( German call sign project ), which aimed by the independent American agency FCC ( Federal Communications Commission ) , roughly comparable to the German Federal Network Agency to provide data collected radio amateurs are available. At that time the World Wide Web (www) did not exist in its present form. The data was therefore saved on CD-ROM and offered as QRZ CDROM more or less at cost price of almost twenty US dollars . After a short time more than 5000 pieces were sold, which found their place on all continents of the earth including Antarctica and even in space on the Mir space station and the International Space Station (ISS).
On October 28, 1993 QRZ went online at the Internet address that is still valid today . Now that there are many millions of websites of all kinds, QRZ.com deserves the fame of being among the first 5,000. It is still very popular with radio amateurs all over the world.
Web links
- Website (English)
- Via QRZ.com (English)
- Explanations on QRZ.com at dm6wan.darc.de