13 January, 2020 Island activities: AS-153. (Reminder) By the time you read this, members of the West Bengal Radio Club (VU2WB) will be active as 8T2G from Ganga Sagar Mela until January 17th. Activity will be on various HF bands. Read more…
South Cook Islands (E51)….
Donald, VE7DS, will be active as E51DDG from the Kiikii Inn on Rarotonga Island (OC-013) between February 2-14th. Activity will be on 40/30/20/17 meters daily using CW only with an Elecraft K3 and KPA500 running 500 watts into verticals on the beach. Read more…
South Orkney Islands DXpedition VP8PJ….
We are pleased to announce that the call sign for the Perseverance DX Group’s expedition South Orkney 2020 will be changed to VP8PJ. In past years it was relatively easy to get a preferred VP8 call sign for the British Antarctic Read more…
Swiss Special Event Station HE2JOJ….
Swiss special event station Members of the Association des Radio- amateurs de la Cote (HB9HI) will activate the special event station HE2JOJ until January 31st. Activity is to mark the 3rd edition of the Winter Youth Olympic Games (Jeux Olympiques de la Jeunesse) to Read more…
DX News from the ARRL….
January 10, 2020 This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by CO3JK, W4GKR, 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…
“SMART” 2020 Atlantic Canada’s premier amateur radio event….
SMART 2020 – APRIL 25 – SPRINGHILL, Nova Scotia Registration is now open so go to the website below and join your fellow HAM’s at Atlantic Canada’s premier amateur radio event. https://www.westcumb.ca/s-m-a-r-t-2020
Grey Line Propagation….
Grey line propagation provides surprisingly long distance radio communications at dawn and dusk sometimes when other forms of ionospheric propagation may not be expected to provide signal paths of these distances. This mode of propagation is widely used in ham Read more…
IOTA News from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club….
8 January 2020 Island activities: IOTA QRGs CW: 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 kHz SSB: 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3760 kHz AS-153; VU, West Bengal State group: Members of the West Bengal Radio Club Read more…
Winter Field Day January 25/26 2020….
Winter Field Day…. Web Site: https://www.winterfieldday.com/ January 25/26 2020
ARRL/RAC Section changes effective April 1,2020….
Are you ready for the Apr 1st ARRL/RAC Section changes? Here are the latest maps and section definitions: http://www.mapability.com/ei8ic/maps/sections_2.php “The number of Sections needed for a clean sweep in the ARRL November Sweepstakes (SS) will rise to 84 in 2020, Read more…