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Archive for February, 2009

K5D QRT

by k4sac @ Thursday, February 26th, 2009. Tags:
Filed under dx, dxpedition

Well the K5D dxpedition is over now. They racked up a total of 115,728 Qso’s. Of course it is always said how well a dxpedition does depends on if you are in the logbook or not, but I think these guys did a pretty good job. (Disclaimer: I do have 8 contacts with them) There [...]

Chatham Island Dxpedition

by k4sac @ Tuesday, February 24th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under dx, dxpedition

On the heels of the K5D gang is a team of nine ZL dxpeditioners are headed to activate Chatham Island in the South Pacific during March 2009. Starting March 5th, 2009 and ending March 10th, 2009 According to their web site here they will operate from the Chatham Fishing Lodge in the fishing village of [...]

Remote operation of a station during a contest…….

by k4sac @ Monday, February 23rd, 2009. Tags: , , ,
Filed under ARRL, contests, remote operation, skimmer

The ARRL CAC met recently to clarify some things in the contest rules. Other contests had ruled on the CW Skimmer issue,  the ARRL being the last to rule on it. As did the CQ contest folks, the ARRL has okay’d the CW Skimmer and other “multi-channel decoders” for Multi-operator and the Single-Operator Assisted category [...]

K5D operation

by k4sac @ Sunday, February 22nd, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under Uncategorized

The K5D operation for the most part has been a smooth operation, on-air wise. The pileups have seemed to be orderly, the operators seem to be competent operators. There have been some questions about their 40m SSB operations, but you have to stop and think, they are in Region 2 and as thus have to [...]

2009 ARRL International CW DX Contest

by k4sac @ Monday, February 16th, 2009. Tags:
Filed under ARRL, contests, cw

Feb 21st and Feb 22nd set the stage for the ARRL International CW DX contest. According to ARRL, the International DX contest was first started in 1929, making it the longest running contest in Ham Radio history. All Ham Radio operators DX or stateside are encourage to participate in this contest. All bands 160-10 (excluding [...]

U.S.-Russian Satellite crash affects Kentucky

by k4sac @ Sunday, February 15th, 2009. Tags:
Filed under KY SECTION, space

Taken from: iss_shuttle@yahoogroups.com The crash of two satellites 500 miles over Sibera has caused alarm in Kentucky. The collision generated an estimated tens of thousands of pieces of space junk that could circle Earth and threaten other satellites for the next 10,000 years, space experts said Friday. Several of those chunks caused concern in Southeastern [...]

Post office prices going up effective May 11th.

by k4sac @ Wednesday, February 11th, 2009. Tags:
Filed under QSL

Mailing Services Prices Effective Monday, May 11, 2009 On May 11 the price for a 1-ounce First-Class Mail stamp will increase from 42¢ to 44¢. Prices for other mailing services — Standard Mail, Periodicals, Package Services (including Parcel Post), and Extra Services — will also change. The average increase by class of mail is at [...]

KY ICE Storm 2009 cont’d

by k4sac @ Wednesday, February 11th, 2009. Tags:
Filed under KY SECTION, emergency

(The unedited ARRL KY4EOC PRESS Release) KY4EOC ICE STORM ACTIVATION In the grips of an Ice Encased Nightmare, the Kentucky emergency communication systems were jammed with traffic or totally shut down. After the storm, over a half million were without power and up to 55 water districts would be off line for days. For some [...]

Riding the Radio Waves go mobile…

by k4sac @ Wednesday, February 11th, 2009. Tags:
Filed under blog

I have installed a plugin on my blog that will allow for the blog to be read by mobile phones. Just bring up http://blog.k4sac.net as usual on your phone and now it should display properly without need for scrolling…… 73, Jack K4SAC

VK9NS SK

by k4sac @ Tuesday, February 10th, 2009. Tags:
Filed under dx, ham radio

It is with deep regret that I pass on this annoucement that Jim Smith VK9NS, is now a Silent Key. Below is an e-mail from his son Bruce G3HSR. Jim and Kirsti Smith are legends in the ham radio community. As with many folks, Jim was my first Norfolk Island QSO and if you were [...]

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