Nearly 2 weeks after Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) hit the Central Philippines in one of the worst natural disasters in modern history, survivors are slowly getting food, water, and medical attention and supplies, along with shelter, communication, and electrical power. Now, the Philippine Amateur Radio Association (PARA) is hoping that requests for emergency communication gear will provide the mean…
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Got this little gem in last week and thought I would share a little info about it. This is the antenna I will be using when out in the bush/field, or on the …
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In the only contested Section Manager election this fall, ARRL members in Tennessee have re-elected Keith E. Miller Sr, N9DGK. He received 690 votes, while challenger Randall Smith, KI4OAS, of Gadsden, received 352 votes. Smith is Tennessee’s Section Emergency Coordinator. Miller, who lives in Rockvale (near Murfreesboro), will begin his second term as Tennessee Section Manager on January 1. Ba…
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The ARRL Lab has worked with a manufacturer of arc fault circuit interrupter (AFCI) breakers to resolve complaints that Amateur Radio RF was causing certain breaker models to trip unnecessarily. Like the more common ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI), the AFCI is a safety device. Primarily designed to detect problems that could result in a fire, AFCIs detect potentially hazardous arc fault…
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This is a brief tour of my ‘shack’. Nothing spectacular….yet. It gets the job done though.
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Big changes to shack. Just acquired the phenomenal IC 756 PRO III from my brother 6Y1X. Fantastic rig , and I get great reports with the SM-20 mic. This now …
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A late-season, multistate outbreak of tornadoes and high winds on November 17 killed six people in Illinois and injured hundreds of others, some seriously. ARRL Illinois Tom Ciciora, KA9QPN, reported today that Peoria County ARES Emergency Coordinator Fritz Bock, WD9FMB, has responded with a team of volunteers to a Central Illinois Division Red Cross request for emergency communication support …
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TXM 6 HEADLINER PSK 13 OF THE SPC PART 1.ON MARCH 5, 2010 TXM BROUGHT YET ANOTHER CALLABO , SUM MIGHT SAY THE REALEST CALLABO DOWN SOUTH. WITH PSK- 13 OF THE…
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Recorded on 11 Dec 2009 about 23:56H UK time. 3 distinct signals of unknown origin. A repetitive tone that may/may not be related to the other 2 signals; A m…
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Yuri Bodrov, UT1FG, has been operating maritime mobile while aboard a commercial ship Silver, now heading north, possibly increasing chances of making a contact with him. Frank Griffin, K4FEG, and Rick Tillman, WA4NVM, contacted UT1FG when he was sailing in grid FG43 during a 2 minute pass on the venerable AO-7 satellite (Mode B). His next port will be Punta Patache, Chile (FG49). It’s possible…
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The digital version of the December issue of QST is now available to ARRL members.
In this issue . . .
• Discover which modes offer the most mileage
• Replace bulbs with LEDs in vintage rigs
• Try a dual band HF ground plane antenna
• See the 2013 Field Day results
…and much more!
Enjoy content you won’t see in the print edition . . .
• Watch a video overview of the Icom ID-51A dual band handheld tr…
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Start balonu z przemiennikiem SR0FLY – ŁOŚ 2012.
Solar activity remains robust. Yesterday, Thursday, November 14 the daily sunspot number rose to 234, a number not seen since the last blast of the second peak of the previous solar cycle, exactly a decade ago.
Way back on October 27 through November 1, 2003 the daily sunspot numbers were 238, 230, 330, 293, 266, and 277. That was it. Nothing as high as a sunspot number of 234 since then.
But the…
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The ARRL Southeastern Division will have a new director on January 1. Ballots were counted today, and challenger Doug Rehman, K4AC, of Mt Dora, Florida, narrowly defeated incumbent Southeastern Division Director Greg Sarratt, W4OZK, of Huntsville, Alabama, 961 to 949 votes. Rehman was among challengers who ran against Sarratt in 2010. Sarratt has served as a Director since 2007.
There was no cha…
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This video shows you the heart of the longwire antenna. This antenna has been desinged for receiving usage from 100kHz until 30MHz. This antenna will be deli…
The Daily DX reports that theK9W DXpedition to Wake Atoll is over. A final log upload to ClubLog is pending. The K9W team logged more than 100,000 contacts with stations in 186 DXCC entities. Meanwhile the XRØZR team on Juan Fernandez reports that it has surpassed 35,000 contacts, and it’s beefing up efforts to put even more contacts into the log. The DXpedition has 6 more days to go.
“With the …
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Coverage of the Orlando, Florida HamCation event on Feb 11-13, 2011 huge turnout this year with thousands attending the trade show which features new and use…
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the local ham radio clubs yearly hamfest in lincoln nebraska march 19, 2011 at the lancaster county event center.. see the other video fo the presentation of…
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The results of the 2013 ARRL Field Day have been posted. Less-than-ideal conditions this past June likely accounted for a slight drop in participation from 2012. Nonetheless, there were more than 2500 entries, and more than 35,500 people participated.
The team at W3AO (Potomac Valley Radio Club/Columbia Amateur Radio Association) claimed top honors this year, running class 29A(!) to compile a sc…
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[UPDATED 2013-11-14 1412 UTC] The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) announced this week that it has deployed satellite communication equipment to the Philippines to help re-establish “communications vital for search and rescue” in areas severely affected by Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda). Amateur Radio volunteers throughout the Philippine archipelago have been a primary communication link s…
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9 year old Chinese Primary School pupils calling CQ from their classroom in Guangzhou City China! Transmissions were received at my location on the Gold Coas…
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ARRL’s Field Day 2012 – June 23rd 2012. Ashton and Ms. Carsyn rackup of the Points for contacts on 15 Meters. Ashton and Carsyn representing the SCARC (Ski C…
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Rich, N0HJZ, pilots the VP5H Multi-Op on a 20 Meter run during the 2013 ARRL International DX Contest. Rich works AE6OU, NT5V, KC2YEA, AD1C, KR2E, WN4S, K1DA…
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Six meter operators were treated November 9 to an F2 opening from approximately 1500 until 1630 UTC.
“These have been very rare in solar cycle 24,” said QST “The World Above 50 MHz” Editor Jon Jones, NØJK. He described the opening as “mostly single-hop F2” from the East Coast, Midwest, Gulf Coast, and to the West Coast to Central America, Northern South America and Caribbean.
Jones said the geoma…
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Two astronauts and a cosmonaut returned safely to Earth from International Space Station today. The Expedition 37 crew of European Space Agency Astronaut Luca Parmitano, KF5KDP; Russian ISS Crew Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, RN3FI, and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg landed in a Soyuz spacecraft in the Kazakhstan steppe, returning in the same spacecraft that took them to the ISS last May.
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http://www.kq8rp.us/end-fed-wire/mfj-998-intellituner-remote-setup-to-165-end-fed-wire/ Remote Antenna Tuner MFJ-998 to 165′ End Fed Wire.
A day out testing our communications and evaluating. Actual price of the buddipole without extended mast was 399.00.
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Members of The American Legion Amateur Radio Club (TALARC) will honor their fellow veterans in a special on-the-air tribute on Veterans Day, Monday, November 11. TALARC will operate on 20 meters, IRLP, 2 meter simplex and a Central Indiana repeater from 9 AM through 5 PM Eastern Time (1300-2200 UTC), using special event call sign W9L. Anyone contacting the station is eligible to receive an attr…
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Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) President Geoffrey Bawden, VE4BAW, told the RAC’s Annual General Meeting in his Report to RAC Members last month that the organization is solvent.
“After two and a half years of hard work, RAC is on a firm financial footing,” Bawden said. At the 2010 Annual General Meeting, Bawden had raised the specter of financial failure. “We were insolvent and on the very brink…
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6m用のHB9CVわベランダ設置する際のSWRの変化の実験です。
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Officials in the Philippines are still assessing the extent of damage wrought by Typhoon Haiyan (locally called “Yolanda”), which hit the central Philippines November 8. The death toll is at least 100, with many others injured and some 500,000 people left homeless. The typhoon (tornado), with sustained winds approaching 150 MPH with gusts to 170 MPH, swept away homes and buildings, blocked road…
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Observen el minuto 54 la entrega de la plaqueta como persona destacada en Lincoln a Ruben LU8EEM y como si fuera poco pero bien merecido que lo tiene, en las…
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Powerful Typhoon Haiyan (called “Yolanda” locally) struck the central Philippines on November 8, leaving at least four people dead and cutting off power and communications. Ramon Anquilan, DU1UGZ, of the Philippines Amateur Radio Association (PARA), reports that the Ham Emergency Radio Operators (HERO) have been supporting authorities with reports and message-handling.
“They helped track the d…
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Solar activity eased off over the past week, with average daily sunspot numbers declining nearly 30 points from 161.6 to 131.7, and average daily solar flux down over 12 points from 158.3 to 146. Geomagnetic indicators were quiet. Still, activity remains strong. The last three days of the reporting week (November 4-6) had increasingly stronger sunspot numbers, all higher than the week’s average…
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VBF Monterey Bay California on CB channel 38. Recorded on the Gold Coast, Australia.
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Super Typhoon Haiyan, a category 5 storm, has hit the Philippines, triggering flooding, destroying buildings, and causing millions to take shelter. Ramon Anquilan, DU1UGZ, of the Philippines Amateur Radio Association (PARA) reports that the typhoon made landfall at about 4:40 AM local time November 8 in Guian Estern Samar, about 600 kilometers southeast of Manila. Neighboring provinces are affe…
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Part 2 of 3 of the entended review of the Icom IC R20 communications receiver.
NASA’s Richard Mastracchio, KC5ZTE, Russia’s Mikhail Tyurin, RZ3FT, and Japan’s Koichi Wakata, KC5ZTA, arrived at the International Space Station November 7, expanding the ISS crew complement to nine members. The new crewmembers carried the torch that will be used to light the Olympic flame in Sochi, Russia, for the 2014 Winter Games.
The arrival of Mastracchio, Tyurin and Wakata brings the stat…
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The president of the European DX Foundation, Hans Blondeel Timmerman, PB2T, has written the ARRL DX Advisory Committee (DXAC) in support of DXCC recognition of Kosovo. Timmerman, who is also IARU Region 1 president, has been involved in getting Amateur Radio back up to speed in Kosovo and operated in September 2012 as Z6ØK. Under current DXCC rules, Kosovo does not qualify as a DXCC entity. For…
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What’s the frequency, Kenneth? The annual Frequency Measuring Test (FMT) will take place on November 13, at 0300 UTC. See page 88 of November 2013 QST for the schedule and full details.
The FMT will employ a “roundtable” format, with all transmitting stations close to the same frequency. The four test signal stations will be K5CM in Oklahoma, W8KSE in Ohio, W6OQI in California and WA6ZTY in Cali…
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A program by the National Weather Service allows community members to use their passion for the good of the public. Katelyn Baer reporting.
Just a quick note, I took a lot of what I said from the SKYWARN website to give an idea of how much of an impact you can have but from personal experience it…
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Technology marches on and, controversy aside, operating a remote station via the Internet has become more common in recent years. In the ARRL November Sweepstakes CW event last weekend, a ham who lives in Uruguay remotely operated a station in the US, making a clean sweep in the process. Tom Morton, K6CT/CX7TT, who lives in near Montevideo, logged into one of the operating positions at K4VV in …
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