Month: January 2019

IARU-R1 Monitoring System reports an Over The Horizon (OTH) radar located on the island of Cyprus has been active on 21.170 MHz The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia is a British Overseas Territory on the island of Cyprus. On Read more…

The DXCC Most Wanted entities list has been updated on ClubLog as of December 28th. The list contain 340 entities and here are the top 10 entities (which has not changed since last month): 1. P5 DPRK (North Korea) 2. 3Y/B Bouvet Read more…

The 16th Antarctic Activity Week will take place between Feb. 10 and 24. Francois/F8DVD has already announced his intention to participate as TM16AAW (WAP 300) on 40-10m, mostly on SSB. QSL via F8DVD (d/B). http://www.waponline.it/

Al Williams WD5GNR writes on Hackaday about receiving the Amateur Radio satellites and how to make contacts How hard is it to build a ground station to communicate with people via a satellite? Probably not as hard as you think. [Modern Read more…

Bouvet DXpedition (3Y0Z) – Options/instructions for REFUNDS of unused DXpedition funds Let me take this opportunity to thank you again for your financial support. The DXpedition team members are all extremely disappointed that we were not able to complete our Read more…

7 January, 2019 Island activities: AS-015. (Reminder) Rich, PA0RRS, is once again active as 9M2MRS from Penang Island until February 15th. Activity will probably be on 40-10 meters using CW, RTTY, PSK, FT8 and possibly SSB (he will have a Read more…

4 January, 2018 This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by The Daily DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. VIET Read more…

SD logging App now free With effect from January 1, version 21 of the logging App SD by EI5DI is free and unrestricted SD supports RSGB, UKEICC and IRTS HF contests, and hundreds of others worldwide. SD runs on Windows, and on Read more…

The Quadrantid meteor shower will reach its maximum rate of activity on 4 January 2019. Some shooting stars associated with the shower are expected to be visible each night from 1 January to 6 January. Annual meteor showers arise when the Earth passes through streams of debris left Read more…

2019 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Worked All Britain Awards Group. To mark the occasion, three new awards will be introduced for 2019 only. In conjunction with the new awards, GB50WAB will run throughout the year, along with a number of Read more…