Januari, 2020

• 1 Januari

  Ring In the New Year with Straight Key Night!

  12/31/2019  It’s time to break out (and/or dust off) the brass and set some time aside on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day to take part in Straight Key Night (SKN). The annual event begins at 0000 UTC on January 1, 2020 (New Year’s Eve in US time zones) …

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• 1 Januari

  IARU Region 1 Monitoring Service Coordinator DK2OM Receives IARU Diamond Award

  12/31/2019 After many years of monitoring and tracking intruders on the amateur bands, Wolf Hadel, DK2OM, of Siegbach, Germany, is stepping down at year’s end as coordinator of the International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 Monitoring System (IARUMS). IARU Region 1 President Don Beattie, G3BJ, announced this week that Hadel …

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• 1 Januari

  OE1970WWL celebrates radio ham’s 50 years on-the-air

  Austria’s national amateur radio society ÖVSV reports Wolfgang Wagner is celebrating the 50th anniversary of his first amateur radio license as OE5WWL with two special call signs As well as the special call sign OE1970WWL on March 28-29, 2020, Wolfgang will be using the contest call sign OE0WWL in the …

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• 1 Januari

  TK0C 2019 CQWW DX CW Contest video released

  The ‘Team Charlie’ (S5 Team) that was active as TK0C from Sant Ambroggio, Corsica, during the CQWW DX CW Contest (November 23-24th) as a Multi-Single entry, has released an interesting video of their operation. To view it, see:https://vimeo.com/379807649

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• 1 Januari

  ‘Daytime auroras’ sighted in Sweden

  An extraordinary outbreak of stratospheric clouds is underway around the Arctic Circle. Longtime residents are describing it as a “once in a lifetime event,” and the clouds are being mistaken by some tourists as “daytime auroras.” These rare clouds can form only when the temperature in the polar stratosphere drops …

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