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Archive for October, 2007

ALE

by @ Saturday, October 20th, 2007. Tags: ,
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As you tune the ham bands you may be hearing some strange sounding signals. Chances are some of those signals are ALE or Automatic Link Establishment. According to the website hflink.com, Automatic Link Establishment is the de-facto worldwide standard for initiating and sustaining communications using High Frequency radio. HF radio conveys signals via ionospheric propagation, [...]

Liberian Dxpedition

by @ Saturday, October 20th, 2007. Tags:
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Radio Netherlands http://www.radionetherlands.nlhas written an article about four dutchmen in Liberia on a dxpedition. The call that thedxpedition is using 5L2MS. You can read the article here at http://www.radionetherlands.nl/features/media/lib071010

RTTY CONTEST SURVEY

by @ Thursday, October 18th, 2007. Tags: ,
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Taken from the CQ-contest listserv: Please participate in a new rttycontesting.com survey at: http://www.rttycontesting.com/2007survey/survey_oct07.html This survey will last 2 weeks and will be closed on November 2, 2007. Resultswill be available some time in November. Thanks foryour participation! 73, Don AA5AUhttp://www.aa5au.comhttp://www.rttycontesting.com

Stew Perry Topband Challenge-OCT 20-21st

by @ Wednesday, October 17th, 2007. Tags: , , ,
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RULES from http://jzap.com/k7rat/stew.rules.txt 12th STEW PERRY TOPBAND DISTANCE CHALLENGE 1. Contest period: 1500Z December 29th to 1500Z December 30th, 2007.Operate for a maximum of 14 hours. Off times are 30 minutes minimumand a maximum of four off periods are permitted. A separate warm-up even will be held on October 20th/21st with thesame time period and [...]

IARU Region 2 HF Band Plan

by @ Tuesday, October 16th, 2007. Tags: , ,
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The IARU has voted to adopt a HF bandplan based on signal bandwidth. This looks like the previous ARRL proposal somewhat. Below is the text of the bandplan taken from http://www.iaru-regionii.org/Region_2_MF__HF_Bandplan_2008.pdf IARU REGION 2 MF/HF BAND PLAN – Effective January 1st 2008The IARU Region 2 has established this band plan as the way to better [...]

WARC bands authorised in new Amateur Radio Act for Thailand

by @ Tuesday, October 16th, 2007. Tags: , , ,
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Taken from HSOZCW’s post on DX News Listserv [quote]Thailand’s Intermediate and Advanced class radio amateurs are now permitted to operate on the so-called WARC bands (10-, 18- and 24-MHz) as well as in windows in the CW portion of the 80-metre (3.5-MHz) and 160-metre (1.8-MHz) bands on a permanent basis.The authorisation, granted in a new [...]

Innovative QSL service

by @ Tuesday, October 16th, 2007. Tags: , ,
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As long as there has been Ham Radio, it has been said that the final courtesy of a QSO is a QSL. For years we have had the option to send QSL’s direct via the postal service or we could send the QSL’s to a outgoing QSL bureau, such as the ones that the ARRL [...]

SWL pick of the week

by @ Tuesday, October 9th, 2007. Tags:
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There are many SWL pages out there on the internet, but Riding the Radio Waves’ pick of the week is the SWL web page of NW7US Tomas. Tomas has a web site called the shortwave radio listening resource center and it is located athttp://shortwave.hfradio.org/ It has a lot of resources that SWLs can use and [...]

Dx Clusters

by @ Tuesday, October 9th, 2007. Tags: ,
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To catch that rare DX, sometimes one needs some help. And that help can come in the form of a dx cluster. AD1C has a website called DXcluster.info that lists all type of information about DX Clusters. The link is http://www.dxcluster.info

WRT team Standings

by @ Tuesday, October 9th, 2007. Tags:
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W9RE, K7RL LEAD BATTLES FOR NINE US 2010 WRTC BIDS By Jamie Dupree NS3T With the results of ten qualifying contests now in for the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championship in Russia, some WRTC veterans and major players in the contest world are beginning to show their strength. In qualifying region NA #2, WRTC vet [...]

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