Author: Ken McCormick

Island activities: The following are IOTA operations that were active this past week between January 10-15th (as per the DXCluster): IOTA Callsign Island/GROUP Bands/Modes —— ———- ————- ———— AF-004 EA8DFB CANARY 15m; FT8 AF-004 EA8DIG CANARY 20m; SSB AF-004 EA8DKA Read more…

Members of the Marconi Cape Cod Radio Club (KM1CC) will be on the air between 1330 UTC, January 18th and 0200 UTC,- January 19th, to commemorate the 119th anniversary of Marconi sending the first transatlantic message from the USA to Europe (UK). Read more…

SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-3 mission launched on Thursday carrying 105 satellites including several amateur radio payloads. The Tevel mission comprises eight satellites, each with an FM transponder with an uplink on 145.970MHz and downlink, plus beacon transmissions on 436.400MHz. The Read more…

Victor, VA2WA got in touch to provide some QRV info regarding 80m activity next week by Eddy, XV1X. Look for Eddy during January 17-23 (except the 20th) to be on 3.570 (FT8) from 18:00 to 23:30z. TX 1st on 250Hz. This Read more…

Hadrian’s Wall Special Event Station We have just had the callsigns issued for two Special Event Stations to commemorate 1900 years since Hadrian’s Wall was built, the northern frontier of the mighty Roman Empire and which was the inspiration for Read more…

Winter Field Day January 29-30 Winter Field Day Association (WFDA) is a dedicated group of Amateur Radio Operators who believe that emergency communications in a winter environment is just as important as the preparations and practice that is done each Read more…

JI3DST/5 and JS6RRR/5 will be active from Shodo Island, IOTA AS – 200, 20 January – 24 February 2022. They will operate on 80 – 2m, CW, SSB, Digital modes, FM.

YB6ABO/P, YC1BIQ/6, YD0AVE/6 and YE1AR/6 will be active from Rondo island, OC-245 during January 20-27, 2022. QRV on 160-10m; CW, SSB & FT8. QSL all calls via N2OO. NOTE: Rondo Island is the Indonesia’s northernmost territory, located in Andaman Sea

NEWS UPDATE – AU2GSI has been active mostly on 40 SSB. Thanks to QSL manager EA5GL for sending these pictures to DX-World: JANUARY 6 – Members of the West Bengal Radio Club (VU2WB) will be active with special callsign AU2GSI from Sagar Island, AS-153 Read more…

Donny YB0DX (newly elected ORARI-Indonesian Amateur Radio Chairman) and Dave YC5YC (Founder & Director of DXPortable Amateur Radio) will be active from Borneo OC-088 during January 23-24, 2022. QRV on all HF bands, SSB & Digi. QSL via EA7FTR for YC5YC/7 and Read more…