Throughout December, Crocodile Rock Amateur Group will operate Special Special Event Station GB1002ZE and Special Event Station GB2ZE. Activities will be from near Ardrossan, Scotland, marking the first amateur transatlantic communication a century ago. Special event stations 8H13H, 8H13U, 8H13T, 8G13T, 8G13A, 8G13N, 8G13G, 8G13S, 8G13E, and 8G13L will be on the air until the […]
When operating in contests, please keep yourself and fellow amateurs safe by following relevant pandemic-related government recommendations. The CQWW DX CW contest concludes its 48-hour run at 2359UTC tonight, Sunday. Using CW only on the 1.8 to 28MHz contest bands, the exchange is serial number, signal report and CQ Zone, which for the UK is […]
We had yet another week with low solar activity. The solar flux index started the week at 79 and by Thursday had only climbed to 83. Ideally, we want the SFI to be above 100 to guarantee good 10m openings. Geomagnetically, the Sun has been quiet with a maximum Kp index of three. On Thursday […]
Burton Amateur Radio Club meets on Wednesday at 7.30pm. There are nets on 145.575MHz at 10am on Sundays and Thursdays at 8pm. Monday sees slow CW training from 11am on 14.055MHz. Barry, M0ISZ, 01283 540570 Kettering & District Amateur Radio Society has a breakfast meeting from 10am on Sundays. On Tuesday there is a meeting […]
Amateur radio was the lead item in a BBC News article on what made people happy during the pandemic. John Emery, 2E0HWE was pictured in front of his radio, microphone in hand, describing how he had made new friends thanks to amateur radio. You can read the full article on BBC news online.
According to a report by Alpha Defense India, the Defence Research and Development Organisation’s premier radar development laboratory is working on an “over-the-horizon” OTH radar system to keep a close eye on Chinese movements in the Indian Ocean region. The …
Version entity is Spratly Islands, 1S Entities: 402 Prefixes: 4,665 Callsigns: 29,416 Managers: 91,250 Addresses: 12,861 [download] DX4WIN 8.05 and earlier [download] DX4WIN 9.01 and later [Entities] [Prefixes] [Callsigns] [Managers] [IOTA] Entities Prefixes Callsigns 4C4C from 26-28 November 2021 is …
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Version entity is UK Base Areas on Cyprus, ZC4 ADIFCnt.txt has 340 current DXCC entities and 62 deleted DXCC entities. arrlpre3.txt has 21410 prefix+callsign mappings. cqwwpre3.txt has 21560 prefix+callsign mappings. [download] Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: 4C4C is Mexico, XE Removed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns:
Version entity is UK Base Areas on Cyprus, ZC4 [download] Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: 4C4C is Mexico, XE Removed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns:
VER20211125, Version entity is Western Sahara, S0 Download: [ CTY-3128 | CT8 | Win-Test | WriteLog | XML ] Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: NA2U is United States, K in CQ zone 3, ITU zone 6 4C4C is Mexico, XE Removed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: N2AU …
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