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DX News – 27 November 2017
Alan, K0AV will operate as ZD8V from Ascension Island, IOTA reference AF-003, until 1 December. Activity will be mainly on CW and QSLs go via the home call. Logs will be uploaded to Logbook of the World. Tim, NL8F and Paula, NX1P will be on Norfolk Island, OC-005 until 3 December. They will use the […]
Special Event News – 27 November 2017
Members of ARRL Headquarters staff will be on the air as W1T from 28 November to 4 December, in honour of Mark Twain’s 181st birthday. On the 30 November, Twain’s actual birthday, the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut has granted permission for a special event station to be set up in the […]
Contest News – 27 November 2016
The CQWW DX CW Contest takes place for the entire 48 hours of this weekend, the 26th and 27th. It will undoubtedly keep the HF bands busy, although declining solar activity will probably mean patchy and short-lived propagation on 10m. Using the 1.8 to 28MHz bands the exchange is signal report and CQ Zone, which […]
Propagation News – 27 November 2016
This week NOAA, and us, got the HF propagation prediction wrong. The figures suggested that last weekend would be unsettled geomagnetically, but in fact conditions were actually much better. The K-index did eventually rise, but not until late Tuesday evening. The prediction for this weekend, as you either read or hear this report, remains uncertain […]
VHF Contest Committee announcement
VHF Contest Committee announcement After careful analysis, the VHF Contest Committee (VHFCC) has made a number of decisions on rule changes for VHF contests in 2017. The full details of each of these, including a trial change to the scoring system and the statistics from the VHFCC 2016 survey that underpinned the rule decisions can […]
FUNcube-3 goes live
The EO-79/FUNcube-3 satellite has transitioned to amateur radio service, now that its primary mission has been completed. AMSAT-UK and AMSAT-NL have announced that the FUNcube U/V transponder has been activated with a regular schedule. Due to power budget constraints, the transponder cannot operate 24/7, so an orbit-specific schedule has been developed. The transponder will commence […]
