22 April, 2020 Island activities: Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON IOTA QRGs CW: 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 kHz SSB: 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3760 kHz AN-016; various, Antarctica: Alexander/RX3ABI has reached Mirny Base and Read more…
Month: April 2020
IOTA News from OPDX….
20 April, 2020 Island activities: IOTA NEWS. Since no new IOTA announcements have been made during the past week (probably because of many COVIN-19 travel restrictions), OPDX decided to list the following IOTA operations that were active this past week: Read more…
[RAC-Bulletin] “Get on the Air on World Amateur Radio Day” special event: Saturday, April 18
“Get on the Air on World Amateur Radio Day” special event: Saturday, April 18 “Promoting Global Friendship Among Amateurs Worldwide” https://www.rac.ca/ward2020/ On Saturday, April 18, 2020 (1200Z to 2359Z), Radio Amateurs of Canada is organizing a special on-air Read more…
DX News from the ARRL….
April 17, 2020 This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by F6AJA, DU1EV, 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 Read more…
Special call sign prefixes for World Amateur Radio Day (WARD) on April 18….
Spain: Special call sign prefixes Special call sign prefixes are being used in Spain from April 15-30 in celebration of the 95th Anniversary of the IARU and World Amateur Radio Day (WARD) on April 18 A translation of the URE post says: Read more…
Holyland Contest 2020….
Holyland Contest 2020 rules Friday 17 of April – Saturday 18 of April 2020 Starting on 21.00 UTC – 21.00 UTC Update: The FT8 protocol does not allow convenient transfer of the Holyland squares and is therefore not part of Read more…
Special Events….
Canadian special event calls The RAC – Radio Amateurs of Canada activates the following special event calls for the World Amateur Radio Day on April 18 (12z to 2359z): VA2RAC, VA3RAC, VE1RAC, VE4RAC, VE5RAC, VE6RAC, VE7RAC, VE8RAC, VE9RAC, VO1RAC, VO2RAC, VY0RAC, VY1RAC, Read more…
IOTA News from OPDX….
13 April, 2020 Island activities: AS-023. Kenji, JA4GXS, will be active as JA4GXS/6 from Amami Oshima Island between May 9-11th. Activity will be on 40-17 meters using CW, SSB and FT8. QSL via JA4GXS, by the Bureau or direct. AS-207. Read more…
432 MHz Trans-Atlantic Record….
432 MHz Trans-Atlantic record extended to almost 4,370 kms The D4VHF station on Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa finally managed to work as far west as Puerto Rico on Saturday the 11th of April when a successful FT8 contact Read more…
DX Test From The Netherlands…….
Jim Solatie, Admin, wrote on the DXing.info Faceboook group: DX Test! Radio City from Zeeland, the Netherlands is making history by conducting one of the first European morse code DX-tests. Around every top of the hour (plus or minus a few Read more…