The SARL Top Band QSO Party is a fun activity to promote contacts on 160 metres between radio amateurs in Southern African countries and to encourage radio amateurs to apply for the SARL Top Band Award. The QSO Party runs from 00:00 UTC on Thursday 20 June 2013 to 00:00 UTC on Monday 24 June …
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Jun 05 2013
AMSAT Field Day 2013
The AMSAT-NA site reports on satellite activity for this year’s ARRL Field Day which takes place June 22-23 Every year AMSAT promotes a satellite version of Field Day during the ARRL annual operating event which is held on the 4th weekend in June. This year Field Day will take place from 1800 UTC on Saturday …
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May 23 2013
IARU Region 1 Ham Radio DX Records
IARU Region 1 requests updates for the online database of VHF/UHF/SHF /EHF amateur radio DX contact records. If you have any information on a possible record or exceptionally long distance QSO please send it to the IARU Region 1 VHF/UHF/Microwave DX record co-ordinator Kjeld Thomsen OZ1FF email: dxrecords@vushf.dk See the DX records for each band …
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May 07 2013
60 metres already going strong
The SARL registration for access to 5 MHz and 472 kHz opened on 1 May. A large number of SARL members have already registered to have access to the 5 MHz band. The activity frequency is 5 260 kHz USB and QSO’s are taking place across the country. Full details on how to join the …
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Apr 21 2013
Anguilla op
Operators Rich KE1B and YL Anna W6NN will be active as VP2EAQ and VP2EAR, respectively, from Anguilla between May 9-16th. Activity will be ‘holiday-style’ using a single station with 100w and a Buddipole antenna system directly adjacent to the sea. Operations will be on all bands 40-10 meters (including 30/17/12m), and all modes (CW/SSB/RTTY). They …
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