In 1981, a small U.S.- supported station called La Voz de Mosquitia (HRXK) went on air from Puerto Lempira, Honduras. The frequency was 4,910 khz — and it was plagued by interference from other Latin American stations in the 60 meter band. A good write up about the station can be found here. This recording was made in Washington, DC using a Hammarlund HQ-180A receiver. The plain QSL card shown here was signed by Reverend Landon Wilkerson, an independent Baptist Missionary, who spent seventeen years in Honduras with his wife and family helping the Miskito Indians.
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Owners of Yaesu C4FM transceivers may be interested to learn of a new Wires-X room called Southern Fusion, currently room 41893. It is focussed primarily on repeater and gateway users in southern England and, of course, Wires-X users anywhere on the planet. RF access is available via a growing number of C4FM repeaters. These include […]
It has been reported that a person has been prosecuted for racial harassment over the air. Details of the conviction can be found in an entry on the 2nd of February on the Sussex Police website. The RSGB will be raising this with Ofcom. Anyone experiencing similar on-air harassment is encouraged to report the matter […]
If you are travelling to Florida in the USA in the near future, you may care to visit the 75th Orlando HamCation. It will take place between the 11th and 13th of February at the Central Florida Fairgrounds and Expo Park. Looking ahead to the 20th of February, the Radioactive Fair will take place at […]
Henry, LU4DXU will be active as 8Q7AH from the Maldives, AS-013, between the 8th and 15th of February. He will operate SSB and FT8 on all bands. QSL direct to LU4DXU. John, AD8J will be active as HR9/AD8J from Guanaja Island, IOTA reference NA-057, in Honduras between the 12th and 26th of February. He will […]
TM19AAW will be on the air from the 7th to the 22nd of February to celebrate the 19th Antarctic Activity Week. All information on this event is on QRZ.com under TM19AAW. Operation will be from Mâcon in the east of France, JN26JH, on the 10 to 40m bands. QSL via F8DVD. Members of the Kuwait […]
Following a request by the RSGB, Ofcom has indicated that stations wishing to retain their usual Regional Secondary Locator to identify their DXCC entity may use the suffix /70 to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. It is also permitted to use the /70 suffix with the GQ/MQ/2Q prefix if desired. We would like to thank […]
The RSGB has released the latest RadCom Plus edition this week. We’d like to thank all of the contributors: High loss RF sampler taps Thomas Alldread, VA7TA Operating on the 30THz band – Part 1 Barry Chambers, G8AGN Long delay echoes A.K. Goodacre, VE3HX Experiments with DIY remote operations Bob Cowdery, G3UKB
In the 1970s and 1980s the 48 meter band was full of European pirate stations, usually making “test transmissions” in the early morning hours, and usually on weekends, notably on Sundays. SWLs in the United States hunted these Europirates, which required rising at early hours in order to hear them. One of the stations in 1981 was South Dublin Radio, with a power of 1,000 watts on 6,243 khz. This recording of the station was made in Washington, DC using a Hammarlund HQ-180A receiver. The station verified with a plain white QSL card — in those days, eQSLs did not exist.
