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Archive for November, 2007

BBC World Service 75th anniversary

by @ Tuesday, November 27th, 2007. Tags: ,
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The Big Link UpWednesday 19 DecemberThroughout the day BBC WORLD SERVICEBBC World Service celebrates its 75th birthday today with live outsidebroadcasts throughout the day, linking audiences around the world in aglobal debate on freedom of the media. The debate echoes the themes ofprogramming in the World Service’s Free To Speak season that hasmarked the anniversary [...]

Thanksgiving

by @ Tuesday, November 27th, 2007. Tags: , , , ,
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Thanksgiving has come and gone and Christmas is fast approaching. It is hard to believe that another year is coming to a close. Along with Thanksgiving, the CQ WW CW contest has also come and gone. Did you operate? Did you meet your goal? Was your goal to have fun or did you have a [...]

SS is over!

by @ Wednesday, November 21st, 2007. Tags: , , ,
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The ARRL SSB SS is now history. I hope that you got to get on and make a bunch of Q’s. Here is a Finnish online magazine that has some analysis of DX Contests )Adobe acrobrat reader required Don’t forget the CQ Worldwide DX Contest, CW: 0000Z, Nov 24 to 2400Z, Nov 25 and for [...]

SS AWARDS

by @ Thursday, November 15th, 2007. Tags: ,
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Participation Pins The ARRL is again pleased to continue its PINS (Participation In November Sweepstakes) program for 2007. Anyone who completes 100 contacts on CW or Phone during Sweepstakes is eligible to purchase one of these attractive Participation Pins. Pins are based on claimed scores. Each pin includes the year and mode and has become [...]

Contesting–why??????

by @ Thursday, November 15th, 2007. Tags:
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A non-contester may question what the point in contesting is? Personal achievement is one. You may be a little pistol or pop-gun contester, that has no hope of placing in the top ten in the contest, however you can measure your worth against your peers, or your score from the previous year. Contests are a [...]

New to Contesting????

by @ Tuesday, November 13th, 2007. Tags: ,
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With the new no-code hams on the air now, there is a untapped source of new contesters. As the average age of contesters continues to climb, it is imperative that we welcome new contesters into the fold. Many news hams fear contests. They hear CW blur by them at 30wpm or hear the guys like [...]

Propagation graphics

by @ Tuesday, November 13th, 2007. Tags:
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Rick, LU9DA has set up an interesting utility on his web page. He has graphics showing the current propagation for the 160,80,40,20,15 and 10 meter bands. The link is http://lu9da.dyndns.org/www/prop.html Check it out! 73, Jack K4SAC

This past week…..

by @ Sunday, November 11th, 2007. Tags: , , ,
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Well this past week, we saw the Ukrainian DX Contest:, ARRL Sweepstakes Contest, CW, High Speed Club CW Contest, DARC 10-Meter Digital Contest, OK/OM contest, KY QSO Party, and the WAE RTTY Contest, all take place as well as the NCCC Sprints. Lots of contest activity this past week and the coming week is busy [...]

Shuttle Audio

by @ Thursday, November 8th, 2007. Tags:
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For those that want to hear the shuttle audio, but don’t have access to a local feed, you can go to http://kscops.com/ and hear the shuttle audio.

ARRL SSB SS CONTEST NOV 17-19

by @ Tuesday, November 6th, 2007. Tags: , ,
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Object: For stations in the United States and Canada (including territories and possessions) to exchange QSO information with as many other US and Canadian stations as possible on 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meter bands. Date and Contest Period: 2.1. CW: First full weekend in November (November 3-5, 2007). 2.2. Phone: Third full [...]

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