Approximately three million people worldwide benefit from amateur radio, a means of global communication utilizing radio waves. To expand its reach in Africa, the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) and the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) have signed a landmark agreement …
VER20230728, Version entity is Western Sahara, S0 Download: [ CTY-3324 | CT8 | Win-Test | WriteLog | XML ] Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: W8PAR is United States, K in CQ zone 5, ITU zone 8 KO4JB is Guam, KH2 KD6NFT is Hawaii, … Continue reading →
Version entity is Lesotho, 7P ADIFCnt.txt has 340 DXCC entities and 62 deleted DXCC entities. arrlpre3.txt has 24557 prefix+callsign mappings. cqwwpre3.txt has 24709 prefix+callsign mappings. [download] Added Prefixes/Callsigns: WL7AIG, NH0XP, KL4QN, KL0KT, KH6KA and KH2TJ/P are all USA, K in … Continue reading →
Version entity is Lesotho, 7P [download] Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: KH6KA, KL0KT, KL4QN, NH0XP, WB6COP and WL7AIG are all United States, K in CQ zone 3, ITU zone 6 WL7KS is United States, K in CQ zone 4, ITU zone 7 KL1AS, … Continue reading →
Version entity is Togo, 5V Entities: 402 Prefixes: 4,671 Callsigns: 31,631 Managers: 98,984 Addresses: 13,637 [download] DX4WIN 8.05 and earlier [download] DX4WIN 9.01 and later [Entities] [Prefixes] [Callsigns] [Managers] [IOTA] Entities Prefixes KR6 and KR8 from 15 May 1972 through 23 March 1978 are both … Continue reading →
Using FT8 and the Reverse Beacons to gauge HF propagation James Stevens, M0JCQ has put together a step-by-step guide to help you use the Reverse Beacon Network to gauge band conditions and his results speak for themselves—have a go yourself! In this edition… 12 Repairing circuit board tracks – Part 1 Here are a couple […]
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:
Time signal station WWVH in Kekaha, Kauai, Hawaii was occasionally heard over WWV in Fort Collins, Colorado from my receiving post in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada in the 1970's, particularly on 10 MHz or 15 MHz. Here is a recording of their voice announcement from 1971, when they were still using the term Greenwich Mean Time as opposed to Coordinated Universal Time. The familiar "Aloha" is heard at the conclusion of the announcement.
Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada
Receiver and antenna: Hallicrafters S-52 using a longwire antenna
Paul became interested in electronics and radios as a youngster when his father made him a crystal radio set, but living in Leigh-on-Sea in the 1960s, all it would pick up was the Pirate Radio stations in the Thames Estuary. Later, his father gave him an old MW/SW/LW valve radio with a long wire antenna […]
Thanks to Chris Leviston, M0KPW, ten children at Ireleth St Peters (ISP) CofE Primary School in Cumbria have achieved their Radio Surfer Awards. Chris recently started an after-school club at ISP, and over the five weeks that it ran, the children enjoyed a range of amateur radio activities, leading to them each being presented with […]
