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ARRL International DX Contest SSB

by @ 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 postmarked by 2359 UTC [...]

3830 scores- ARRL 160 contest

by @ Monday, January 4th, 2010. Tags:
Filed under 160, 3830 scores, ARRL, contests

Looks like our effort (NW4T) wasnt too bad considering the temperarture was cold and we were in a tobacco barn freezing…..
NW4T (WA4IJQ, AA4RL, and K4SAC-ops)
Call               QSOs   Sec Cntry   hr      Score Club
All M/S LP
VE2OJ(@VA2BW)     1082    77    23          224,200
VE3MGY             724    73    17  16.0    132,750 CCO
NE4S               615    72    11   19H    105,327 SECC
W3WH               388    68     9    12     61,831 Wireless Association
AD8J               [...]

ARRL 160 contest

by @ Saturday, November 28th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under 160, ARRL, contests

The ARRL 160 contest is rapidly coming upon us.  The 160 contests are some of my favorite contests….
The 2009 ARRL 160 goes from 2200 UTC Friday, ends 1600 UTC Sunday (December 4 – December 6, 2009) for a 42 hour time period with no limitation.
For a complete rundown of the rules, you can can click 2009 [...]

Field Day 2009

by @ Thursday, June 25th, 2009. Filed under ARRL, Field Day

Once again here in the United States, Field day 2009 is once upon us. Beginning at 1800 UTC Saturday and ending at 2100 UTC Sunday. Field Day 2009 will be held June 27-28, 2009.
Rules for the 2009 FD contest are here.
I thought I would revisit an earlier post I made about [...]

PRB-1 and Ham Radio

by @ Friday, April 3rd, 2009. Tags: , ,
Filed under ARRL, PRB-1, antennas

The ARRL is reporting that on March 27, the FCC notified Thomas Morrison, AB2PP, of Yonkers, New York, that it was denying his petition concerning an Amateur Radio antenna support structure Morrison had installed at his home.
PRB-1 is a  Memorandum Opinion and Order that was issued by the FCC September 16, 1985 in respond to [...]

Beacon system-Service or QRM?

by @ Monday, March 9th, 2009. Tags: ,
Filed under ARRL, FCC, beacons, contests, dx, space, sunspots

NCDXF beacon system is a set of beacons, scattered around the world, that operate to informs hams of potential propagation openings. Each beacon transmits every three minutes, day and night. A transmission consists of the callsign of the beacon [...]

Remote operation of a station during a contest…….

by @ 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 (which [...]

2009 ARRL International CW DX Contest

by @ 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 30.17, [...]

W4OYI (SK)

by @ Monday, December 15th, 2008. Tags:
Filed under ARRL

George Wilson W4OYI was a long time Owensboro, KY fixture in the Ham Radio scene. He was one of my mentors that got me into ham radio in the early 70’s. George was pretty much solely responsible for helping me get my code speed up to 35 wpm to pass my general, advanced, and extra [...]

ARRL 160 over

by @ Tuesday, December 9th, 2008. Tags: ,
Filed under ARRL, contests

The ARRL 160 contest is over. Band conditions were pretty good. Low noise for the most part, although we had some snow flurries caused a little snow noise.
Anyone else play in the 160 CW test?
73, Jack K4SAC

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