Ham Exchange – The buying, selling, giving, promoting and participating site for amateur radio operators

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Classifieds: ITEMSBuy, sell, give, trade items

Discover great ham gear, both used and discounted new stuff!

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Classifieds: LOTSBuy, sell, give, trade entire lots

Gear lots, like an entire shack!

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Events & HamfestsDiscover them, and for some buy tickets

Discover great amateur radio events & hamfests!

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Websites & ChannelsDiscover them, even promote your own

Discover and promote great websites & video channels

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On-Air NetsHF, VHF/UHF, digital, and the hybrids!

Discover great nets, join in, and in some, check-in.

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Locations & LandmarksFrom retail outlets to great operating sites

Discover great amateur radio locations & landmarks!

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Buy gear

Sell gear

Give it away

Promote events

Sell event tickets

Participate in events

List your business

List your net

Classified: ITEMS

Something to sell? Looking to buy? Gift?

If you’re selling, Ham Exchange shows off your gear for three months for only $7.00.

If you have gear to either give away or trade for other gear, list it for free.

And of course, all Silent Key estate sales are absolutely free and remain posted for one year.

POST A CLASSIFIED AD

CLASSIFIEDS LISTING

Classified: LOTS

Lots to sell? Looking to buy a lot?

If you’re selling a lot, Ham Exchange shows off your gear for three months for only $15.00 to $25.00.

If you have a lot of gear to either give away or if you are a club selling a lot for fundraising, list it for free.

And of course, all Silent Key estate lots are absolutely free and remain posted for one year.

POST A LOT

LISTING OF LOTS

Hamfests & Events

Organizing a hamfest? Organizing a club event? Attending either one?

Ham Exchange is the place for clubs to sell their hamfest tables and tickets and for operators to buy them.

Most events are listed for free. Tickets are sold for a nominal 3% fee.

If you need to promote an event, or sell tables or tickets, Ham Exchange is your new home.

POST A HAMFEST OR EVENT

HAMFEST AND EVENT LISTINGS

Websites & Channels

So many websites. So many YouTube channels. Which should you visit or watch?

Ham Exchange is the place to list websites of interest and, most importantly, to let others know how useful they were.

Do you run your own video channel or monetized blog? Ham Exchange is the place to promote them. And for $15.00, you’ll get extreme exposure for five years.

POST A WEBSITE OR CHANNEL

WEBSITE & CHANNEL LISTINGS

Locations & Landmarks

There are fewer and fewer retail outlets, and yet we still love us a nice store. And, of course, as operators we love great outdoor locations.

And so, amateur radio stores are listed, but so too are the electronics, hardware, or outdoor supply stores. We also list museums, great operating locations, and more.

Help us to complete the list.

And if you are a business, don’t forget to ‘claim’ the listing so you can modify it and add content to it.

POST A PLACE

PLACE LISTINGS

On-air Nets

Much pride goes into organizing and keeping alive our nets whether those be essential hurricane nets or a simple afternoon rush-hour net on our local repeater.

Ham Exchange hopes to, in some little way, contribute to a net’s ongoing success. List it here, or even use it as a way to obtain check-ins. Operators can even leave comments or ratings to help the net controller make the net as good as it can be.

POST AN ON-AIR NET

LISTING OF ON-AIR NETS

750K+

U.S. Hams

450+

U.S. Hamfests

250K+

Ham Radios sold annually in the U.S.

160+

IARU Countries

99%+

How much we love the hobby

Frequently Asked Questions

Why use Ham Exchange instead of the ‘other’ classified and directory sites?

Ham Exchange is not the only classifieds or listing website; we know this well. The problem we found with all the other sites is that they do not show off your gear as nicely. Listings are not curated and pruned. There are no specific fields for all the necessary features of a piece of gear but also for an event, hamfest, website or place. Also, they do not sell hamfest tickets, we do, making this a one-stop shop for all things hamfest. Last but not least are our promotional efforts. We aim to spread Ham Exchange far and wide by piggy-backing on Ham Community outreach efforts at hamfests across the country. In fact, when you do list your hamfest, send us an invite and we may very well be buying a table there (schedule permitting). Bottom line is: we are going to actively help you sell, buy, give away, promote, or participate!

What is your relationship with Ham Community?

Ham Community is the original site that got this adventure started. Founded in 2018, its goal is to bring together amateur radio operators who want to discuss all things ham at a higher level. Among its features is The Elmers’ Circle that makes available expertise of the highest caliber. Later, starting in 2020, Ham Community’s founders created additional sites, one of those being Ham Exchange.

Note that Ham Community is the ideal place to ask question about or discuss something you see on Ham Exchange.

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What can I list for sale on Ham Exchange?

Can we add listing hamfest, event, website or place listings ourselves?

Do we have to pay to list?

Some things yes, some things no. For instance, we do charge a nominal fee to straightforward sell your gear. However, we do not charge for Silent Key estates, nor do we charge if you are giving something away. Most events can be listed for free. The ones that we do charge for are, again, a nominal fee. In short, we are charging the bare minimum, just enough to pay for expenses. The team here will not be getting rich off of Ham Exchange (or any other Ham Community projects) any time soon. But we do want to make sure we have enough revenue to keep offering you unique, high quality services. The radios you sell and buy are high quality, the antennas you build are high quality, the SWR meters we all depend on are high quality — we want to make sure our websites meet those high quality standards.

What does it mean to claim a listing?

When Ham Exchange posts a listing, only Ham Exchange admins can make changes to it. If you are the legitimate ‘owner’ of that listing (e.g. the net control for a net or the owner of a listed business or the organizer of an event) you can ‘claim’ that listing. Once you claim the listing, you will become its ‘owner’ allowing you to edit and update the listing.

Depending on the type of listing, some claims are free, others require a modest fee. For instance, event listing claims are paying whereas on-air nets are claimed for free.

What happens when you post the listing? Do you become its owner? You do! When you post it, you own it. However, in some instances we still have ‘claim’ packages which will give you, among other benefits, a verification badge.

Note that ‘claiming’ does not apply to classified listings.

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