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2010 WRTC Results

by k4sac @ Thursday, July 29th, 2010. Tags: , ,
Filed under contests

The eagerly anticipated 2010 WRTC is finally done and in the can and the results have been announced. In a very close competition, Vladimir Askenov RW1AC and Alexey Mikhailov RA1AIP using the call R32F won a very narrow victory over Team Estonia, R33A operated by ES5TV/ES2RR in the 2010 World Radiosport Team Championship. In a demonstration of how close the [...]

Dx Spider cluster

by k4sac @ Monday, July 19th, 2010. Tags: ,
Filed under digital, dx

The old pc for the K4SAC-1 dx spider cluster finally died. After giving it the burial it deserved, I set up the spider cluster software on the new pc along with perl, and now it is humming along nice and content. If you need a telnet connection for your logging software, you can use k4sac.brescia.edu [...]

ZL8X Kermadec Island dxpedition

by k4sac @ Sunday, July 11th, 2010. Tags:
Filed under dx, dxpedition

November 19, 2010. That is the magic date for the 2010 Kermadec Island dxpedition. The team  (DJ5IW, DJ7EO,DK1II,DL1MGB,DL3DXX,DL5CW,DL5LYM,DL5XL, DL6FBL, DL8LAS, DL8O, and SP5XVY) are scheduled to arrive in New Zealand on November 14, 2010 and be on the air by November 19th. They plan to have 7 stations online, and will be operating CW, SSB, and [...]

Field Day 2010

by k4sac @ Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010. Tags: ,
Filed under ARRL, Field Day

ARRL Field Day is the single most popular on-the-air event held annually in the US and Canada.  Each year over 35,000 amateurs gather with their clubs, friends or simply by themselves to operate. ARRL Field Day is not a fully adjudicated contest, which explains much of its popularity.  It is a time where many aspects of [...]

FCC Seeks Comments on Amateur 5 MHz (60 Meters) Allocation

by k4sac @ Wednesday, June 16th, 2010. Tags: ,
Filed under FCC, emergency

The FCC has released a NPRM ET Docket 10-98 proposing to modify the allocations on the 60 meter band. Comments must be filed by July 15th, 2010. reply comments must be filed by July 30th, 2010. The 60 meter band is from 5060-5450khz. There are 5 channels allocated on a secondary basis to ham radio [...]

2010 Dayton Hamvention

by k4sac @ Monday, May 17th, 2010. Tags: ,
Filed under hamfests

Well the 2010 Dayton hamvention has come and gone.  I didn’t get to go this year due to work issues. However according to ARRL, there were several new products shown: Flexradio showed off their new FLEX-1 500 5W software defined radio (SDR)  160m-6m They also showed off their FLEX-VU5k a 60W 2 meter and 70cm [...]

NEW ARRL CONTEST

by k4sac @ Friday, April 9th, 2010. Tags: , ,
Filed under ARRL, contests

The First Rookie Roundup — Coming April 18! Back several years ago, there used to be a contest called the Novice Roundup. It was contest where the old timers would get on the air and work only novices. Well the ARRL has decided to re-invent the Novice Roundup into a contest called the Rookie Roundup. [...]

CQ WW WPX SSB

by k4sac @ Wednesday, March 24th, 2010. Tags: ,
Filed under CQ WW

This weekend is the CQ WW WPX SSB contest. You can find the rules here The 2009 CQ WW WPX SSB set a record last year with 4087 log received with 1,819,311 QSO’s from 209 DXCC entities. The USA had 464,627 qso’s logged. Last year, Jim W7EJ pushed CN2R and won the SOAB (Single-Operator All-Band) [...]

FCC releases National Broadband Plan

by k4sac @ Saturday, March 20th, 2010. Tags: , , ,
Filed under ARRL, FCC

On March 16th, the FCC released its report entitled Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan. The FCC unveiled this plan to Congress, calling it “an ambitious agenda for connecting all corners of the nation while transforming the economy and society with the communications network of the future — robust, affordable Internet” According to the FCC [...]

ARRL International DX Contest SSB

by k4sac @ Friday, March 5th, 2010. Filed under ARRL, contests

This weekend is the ARRL International DX contest on SSB. You can find a copy of the rules by clicking here The contest runs for 48 hours and starts at 0000 UTC Saturday and ends at 2400 UTC Sunday. All non WARC bands 160-10 are eligible for contesting. Entries for the Phone competition must be emailed or [...]

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