Yuri, VE3DZ will be active again as VE2IM from Sept Iles, CQ Zone 2, 27 – 31 October 2021. He will operate on HF Bands, including activity in CQ WW DX SSB Contest, 30 – 31 October 2021. He will Read more…
Author: Ken McCormick
WSJT-X version 2.5.1 released….
The development team have announced the General Availability (GA) release of WSJT-X version 2.5.1. This release mainly contains improvements and defect repairs related to Q65 and JT65 modes when used with non-standard and compound calls. Also included is a new feature Read more…
DX News from the ARRL October 22, 2021….
This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by W2GD, 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. KINGDOM OF SWATINI, Read more…
The Storied History of the Ham Radio Callsign…..
Every legal amateur radio operator in the world has a unique callsign assigned to them by their government, and many of us are better known by our callsign than our given name. But what world event was it that caused Read more…
C5C – The Gambia DXpedition….
NEWS UPDATE – Early reminder this DXpedition begins on October 24. The team will now also be QRV on QO100 on SSB/CW, and when running FT8/FT4 they will be using normal mode, not F&H. Jean-Francois (ex-6W7RV) joined the C5C team AUGUST 27 – Read more…
New CQ World Wide Youth Category….
New CQ World Wide Youth category to debut October 30-31 The new Youth category for the CQ World Wide DX Contest will debut October 30 – 31 with the phone weekend. The category covers contesters age 25 years old or younger and Read more…
IOTA News from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club 20 October, 2021….
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 AF-014; CT3, Madeira Archipelago: Helmut/DF7EE will be back on Madeira from Oct. Read more…
United Nations Day OCT.24….
Members of the Global Service Centre ARC (4U1GSC) are now active as 4U24OCT from Brindisi, Italy. Activity is to mark ‘United Nations Day‘ (October 24th), which has been celebrated since 1948. The purpose of the UN Day event is to promote to Read more…
Galapagos Islands HR8D….
Members of the Tifariti Gang/DX Friends will be active as HD8R from Galapagos Islands (SA-004) between October 26th and November 7th. It was reported this past week that Raul, EA5KA, had to cancel his participation in the HD8R Galapagos DXpedition and that Gérard, F2JD, Read more…
IOTA News from OPDX October 18, 2021….
AS-200. Take, JI3DST, will once again be active as JI3DST/5 (mainly for DX and 6m Multi-Hop), JR8YLY/5 (mainly for JA, JR8YLY/P for FT8) from Shodo Island (Shikoku’s Coastal Islands) between 0700z, October 20th, and 0000z, November 4th. Operation may vary Read more…