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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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

3830 scores- ARRL 160 contest

by k4sac @ 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               [...]

ARRL 160 contest

by k4sac @ 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 [...]

Field Day 2009

by k4sac @ 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 FD and [...]

PRB-1 and Ham Radio

by k4sac @ 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 [...]

Beacon system-Service or QRM?

by k4sac @ 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 sent at 22 words per minute followed by four one-second dashes. The callsign and the first [...]

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 [...]

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