YB Land DX Club DX-ing Is Our Life
ARRL reports that on hearing of the Yahoo Groups shutdown Andy Majot K5QO took the initiative to download archives of Yahoo Groups devoted to individual amateur radio gear and upload them to his website “I hope to have them hosted in perpetuity for future hams to use,” Majot told ARRL. …
Januari, 2020
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2 Januari
Update on the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) program
There have been some recent developments with the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) program in Canada. First, a bit of background. There are four levels of ARES organization: National, Section, District and Local. Sections are geographically-based administrative units organized to deliver RAC services to non-government organizations and governments through the …
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2 Januari
Hamilton veteran wants to revive ham radio
CBC News report how amateur radio was used to connect Canadian soldiers abroad with families at home In 1978, John David was surprised to discover — upon calling his parents in Hamilton, Ont. from the Golan Heights — that a five-minute conversation cost $20, a hefty chunk of change for …
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2 Januari
Region-1 144 MHz tropo record now extended to 4,776 kms
Over the last week, there has been some remarkable conditions on the VHF bands allowing lots of DX contacts across Europe. While this is in itself nothing new, it has coincided with a sea duct running down as far as the west coast of Africa. On the 28th of December, …
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2 Januari
Radio ham receives Memorial Trophy
The Bury Times reports an inspirational radio amateur was presented with a new award to honour a long-serving treasurer who died one year ago The newspaper reports: Sean Redmond M7DOS was the first recipient of Bury Radio Society’s memorial trophy, given for his proactive role in promoting the club during …
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2 Januari
AmateurLogic 2019 New Year’s Eve live stream incident
This is the raw, unedited video from the New Years Eve 2019 live stream. It is over 6 hours long contains plenty of bloopers and mishaps (the kind of stuff you’ve come to expect from us). The first 2 hours are a replay of an earlier episode and the team …
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2 Januari
Tony’s 10m Band Report
Not a great deal of activity this past week. Nice to see MM5DWW top on Saturday. His Optibeam is a popular resting place! Just one report this week from Patrick, ON4ARJ.On Sunday worked OH1TP -10dB using FT8. I worked no-one on 10m! Most popular DX (three or more contacts, any …
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2 Januari
VP8PJ – South Orkney Islands
South Orkney Islands DX-peditionVP8PJ(AN-008) We are pleased to announce 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 Territory. After a licensing administrative change, …
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2 Januari
Europe 1 closure
Europe 1 on 183 kHz closed 32 minutes before midnight CET (23:00 UTC) last night after 64 years on air. The longwave band in Europe is getting increasingly quieter. Our thanks to Mike Terry for the above information
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1 Januari
St.Barthelemy operation
Col, MM0NDX, from DX-World.net, reports the following update:“A team has now been formed and will be QRV from St. Barts during early May 2020. “Since FJ is very wanted in Asia, focus will be given to that region. Our QTH is a hilltop villa with good take-off to difficult to …