Author: Ken McCormick

Aug 6, 2022 REMINDER – Dates have now been announced for this activity. August 8-14 from Kilimanjaro region (National Park 5HFF-0005) followed by another in the town of Moshi. QRV on SSB (check 18144, 21244) after 1500z.  MAY 30, 2022 – During Read more…

Aug 6, 2022 This is the 30th DX Shoebox find and comes courtesy of Ann, WA1S who recently posted this picture on DX-World Facebook page. We thought a good idea to share here too. It’s of the YL ops who took Read more…

SFI = 114 A index = 6 K index = 1 SSN = 69 SDO IS BACK–DATA RESTORED: Data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) are available again after technicians repaired a broken fiber optic link on August 5th. The greater than 2-day outage missed Read more…

Aug 2, 2022 “Surviving the Elements and Challenging Propagation of Arctic and Sub Antarctic DXpeditions“. Presented by Cezar, VE3LYC, Arctic DXpeditioner and 3Y0J Bouvet team member for the Madison DX Club.

Yuri will be sailing again from La Plata (Argentina) to Chalmette (USA) activating the grids GF GG HG HH HI GJ GK FK EK EL from August 6 to September 1, 2022.Planned modesCW, SSB, DigitalPlanned bands40 m, 30 m, 20 m, 17 Read more…

The latest episode of the ARRL On the Air podcast (Episode 31) provides an overview of the 222 MHz frequency band. The latest edition of the ARRL Eclectic Tech podcast (Episode 65) features a discussion about lightning protection with Ron Block, NR2B. The On Read more…

August 4, 2022 Check out the latest ARRL News Letter to read an article about Nova Scotia Kings County and Annapolis Valley Amateur Radio Clubs. This item is under “Amateur Radio in the News”. Also the “Just Ahead in Radiosports” Read more…

August 5, 2022 This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by EA4NF, N9GB, 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…

SFI = 109 A index = 6 K index = 2 SSN = 52 DATA OUTAGE ALERT: Images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) are temporarily unavailable as technicians rush to repair a broken fiber optic cable linking SDO’s White Sands Read more…