IOTA News from OPDX 18 March, 2019 Island activities: EU-038. Marcel, PD5MVH, will once again be active as PD5MVH/p from Ameland Island between March 16-30th. Activity will be on 40/20/10 meters using CW, SSB and JT65. He also plans to Read more…
Author: Ken McCormick
DX News from the ARRL….
15 March, 2019 This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by 5B4ALX, 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. Read more…
EIDX Group in Togo (5V)….
Members of EIDX Group will be active as 5V7EI from Main Street, Togo, between March 14-26th. Operators mentioned are Dave/EI9FBB (Team Leader), Jeremy/EI5GM (Co-Leader), Declan/EI9HQ, Pat/ EI9HX, Enda/EI2II, Thos/EI2JD, Alain/EI2KM, Niall/EI4CF, Jim/EI4HH, Norbert/DJ7JC, Heye/DJ9RR, Alain/F5JTV, John/F5VHQ, Jamie/M0SDV and Gabi/YO8WW. Activity Read more…
RF Connectors-101….
RF Connectors-101 Within amateur radio we use many different types of RF connector or coax cable connector, whatever you want to call them. Everything from the familiar UHF connector through BNCs to N-types and many more. Many rigs using bands Read more…
FT8 growing as DX mode….
FT8 growing as DX mode in era of waning propagation ARRL report on a survey by Club Log’s Michael Wells G7VJR that shows significant growth in the use of WSJT FT8 during 2018 Wells reported that operators from some 270 DXCC entities Read more…
IOTA News from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club….
13 March, 2019 Island activities: IOTA QRGs CW: 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 kHz SSB: 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3760 kHz EU-013; GJ/MJ, Jersey: Kazu/JK3GAD operates as MJ0CFW from the 15th to 17th. During Read more…
St Patrick’s Day Award….
Ireland’s South Eastern Amateur Radio Group will be active in the St Patrick’s Day Award which takes place 12 noon on the 16th March to 12 noon on the 18th March UTC. The club will be active from 5pm on the Friday Read more…
IOTA News from OPDX….
11 March, 2019 Island activities: EU-016. Operators Zeljko/9A3DF, Branko/9A3ST, Kiko/9A4WY, Marin/9A5M, Neven/9A5YY and Emir/9A6AA will be active as 9A2L from Susac Island (Croatian Island reference CI-109, Lighthouse Kanula CLH-047 and ARLHS CRO 064) during the RSGB IOTA Contest (July 27-28th). Read more…
Reunion Island DXPedition….
Reunion Island Croatian operators from the Radio Club Marjan (9A1CBM) and Radioclub Kastilac (9A1CIG) will use the special callsign, TO19A, between April 27th and May 8th. Operators mentioned are Tom/9A2AA, Livio/ 9A7Y, Mladen/9A2NA, Ante/9A8RA, Jerko/9A3EME, Jakša/9A3CJW and Rolando/ 9A3MR. Activity will Read more…
St. Patrick’s Day Special Event….
Members of the West Tyrone Amateur Radio Club which is based in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, will activate the special event station, GB1SPD, to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on the weekend of March 16th and 17th. The station will be operational from approximately 0930-1800 Read more…