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Honorary Mature Members’ Officer

Are you passionate about the need to attract older people to the wonderful hobby of amateur radio while retaining and engaging with our existing senior members? We are seeking a dedicated volunteer to serve as our Honorary Mature Members’ Officer. Role overview This honorary position will play a vital part in engaging with other organisations […]
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WYFR: May 2, 1974

Many thanks to SRAA contributor Dan Greenall, who shares the following recording and notes:

Broadcaster: WYFR Scituate MA transmitter

Date of recording: May 02, 1974

Frequency: 17.785 MHz

Reception location: Ancaster, Ontario, Canada

Receiver and antenna: Realistic DX-150A with long wire antenna

Notes: Your Family Radio, WYFR is heard here via their Scituate, Massachusetts transmitter on May 2, 1974 at 2200 hours UTC on 17785 kHz shortwave.

The station has a very colorful history:

W2XAL (1927–1929)

W1XAL (1929–1939)

transmitter moved from Boston to Scituate, MA in 1936

WRUL (1939–1966)

WNYW (1966–1973)

WYFR (1973-2013)

transmitter moved to Okeechobee, FL in 1977

transmitter purchased by WRMI in December 2013

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RSGB Yearbook 2026

More calls than ever With ever more UK and Northern Ireland callsigns on issue the RSGB Yearbook has grown to include 105,000 callsigns. That doesn’t count all that are on issue as you will also find details of Special Contest Calls, Permanent Special Event Callsigns and even Repeaters and Beacons. Using the latest available Ofcom […]
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YOTA Paris 2025 – Day 6

The final sign-off from the RSGB YOTA Paris team Wow, has that gone quickly and we are all so tired now! Sunday was all about celebrating the camp’s achievements and saying goodbye to so many new friends we’ve made from Germany to South Africa, Japan and the US and more.  The morning was full of […]
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YOTA Paris 2025 – Day 5

Today was our chance to see Paris! Our day began very early and after a series of trains we reached our first stop. We were treated to an amazing boat trip up and down the Seine allowing us to see a large amount of the amazing Parisian architecture, such as Notre Dame. After this, we […]
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YOTA Paris 2025 – Day 4

Radiosondes, QO-100 and youth involvement in amateur radio – a joint report by the team Day 4 started with a radiosondes workshop where we were shown a recovered weather balloon and told what each component did and how they were connected. We also covered how to find and retrieve the balloons using different tools. We […]
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CTY-3529 – 25 August 2025

VER20250825, Version entity is Uruguay, CX Download: [ CTY-3529 | CT8 | Win-Test | WriteLog | XML ] Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: GB2SLH is Shetland Islands, *GM/s E51MWA is North Cook Islands, E5/n EA9ADD is Spain, EA EA9PD/P is Ceuta & Melilla, … Continue reading →
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N3FJP – 25 August 2025

Version entity is Easter I., CE0Y ADIFCnt.txt has 340 DXCC entities and 62 deleted DXCC entities. arrlpre3.txt has 26137 prefix+callsign mappings. cqwwpre3.txt has 26300 prefix+callsign mappings. [download] Added Prefixes/Callsigns: DK5MIK/LH and DK2NVA/LH are both Federal Republic of Germany, DL EA9ADD … Continue reading →
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Big CTY – 25 August 2025

Version entity is Uruguay, CX [download] Added/changed Entities/Prefixes/Callsigns: GB2SLH is Shetland Islands, *GM/s DK2NVA/LH and DK5MIK/LH are both Fed. Rep. of Germany, DL TX14TOM is French Polynesia, FO GB8JV and MI0SRR/LH are both Northern Ireland, GI GB0DEB and GB0TNL/LH are … Continue reading →
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DX4WIN.CTY #25.29 – 25 August 2025

Version entity is Malpelo Island, HK0/M Entities:      402 Prefixes:    4,715 Callsigns:  33,749 Managers:  107,403 Addresses:  14,419 [download] DX4WIN 8.05 and earlier [download] DX4WIN 9.01 and later [Entities] [Prefixes] [Callsigns] [Managers] [IOTA] Entities Prefixes Callsigns 5P0MF/LH, OZ0IO/LH, OZ0MF/LH, OZ0Q/LH, OZ1BNG/LH, OZ1NBG/LH, OZ4HAM/LH, OZ5ESB/LH and OZ8MW/LH during … Continue reading →

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