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.
N3FJP – 03 February 2022
Version entity is Pakistan, AP ADIFCnt.txt has 340 current DXCC entities and 62 deleted DXCC entities. arrlpre3.txt has 21525 prefix+callsign mappings. cqwwpre3.txt has 21675 prefix+callsign mappings. [download] Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: Removed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns:
RadCom Plus, Vol. 6, No. 2
To read this edition, tap or click the cover image Contents 1 High loss RF sampler taps Thomas Alldread, VA7TA 8 Operating on the 30THz band – Part 1 Barry Chambers G8AGN 14 Long delay echoes A.K. Goodacre VE3HX 19 Experiments with DIY remote operations Bob Cowdery G3UKB Download options
ARDF Committee meeting, 5 January 2022
Follow the link below to read the minutes of this meeting. ARDF Committee Meeting, 5 January 2022 (2-page/99KB PDF)
DX4WIN.CTY #22.5 – 02 February 2022
Version entity is Christmas Island, VK9X Entities: 402 Prefixes: 4,664 Callsigns: 29,786 Managers: 91,953 Addresses: 12,903 [download] DX4WIN 8.05 and earlier [download] DX4WIN 9.01 and later [Entities] [Prefixes] [Callsigns] [Managers] [IOTA] Entities Prefixes Callsigns BD6KF/0 from 20 August 2012 through … Continue reading
Big CTY – 02 February 2022
Version entity is Colombia, HK [download] Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: GB8HRM is Northern Ireland, GI NL4T is United States, K in CQ zone 4, ITU zone 8 KF7FQ is Puerto Rico, KP4 Removed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns:
CTY-3205 – 02 February 2022
VER20220202, Version entity is Guernsey, GU Download: [ CTY-3205 | CT8 | Win-Test | WriteLog | XML ] Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: EA6AOL/3 is Spain, EA GB8HRM is Northern Ireland, GI 4U13FEB is Italy, I K0DTJ, N0KRE, NK3L and WB3JFS are all … Continue reading
ARDF Committee Report 2021
Follow the link below to read this Report. ARDF Committee Report 2021 (1-page/211KB PDF)
ARDF Committee meeting, 4 December 2020
Follow the link below to read the minutes of this meeting. ARDF Committee Meeting, 4 December 2020 (2-page/208KB PDF)
RSGB 2022 Band plans
The RSGB 2022 Bandplans have been published online. In response to feedback, the Excel version is now tabbed by frequency but the alternative viewer still uses wavelengths for those who prefer the information in that format.

