The K9W Wake Atoll DXpedition team reports that it logged slightly more than 100,000 contacts during its November DXpedition in the South Pacific.
“The Wake Atoll DXpedition team wants to thank the DX community for the outstanding response to ‘The Forgotten 98’ Commemorative DXpedition,” Team Leader Lou Dietrich, N2TU, said on the DXpedition’s behalf. “Also, we need to express our gratitude to o…
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It was 30 years ago this month, after a 1979 pro-Soviet coup degenerated into civil disorder on the Caribbean Island nation of Grenada, that the US spearheaded a military intervention known as “Operation Urgent Fury.” As The Daily DX reports, Mark Barettella, then KA2ORK and a student at the Saint George’s Medical School, got on the air /J37, becoming a source of news and vital information rega…
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In 1937 one of the 20th century’s premier inventors, Maj Edwin H. Armstrong, began regular FM radio broadcasts from experimental W2XMN, a 40 kW station transmitting from his iconic tower on the Palisades above the Hudson River in Alpine, New Jersey. Legend has it that Armstrong, who invented FM as well as the superheterodyne and superregenerative receiver, picked the site so he could view the t…
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W1AW, the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station, is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and what better way to show your support of Amateur Radio’s flagship station than by sporting W1AW commemorative gear! The ARRL is featuring a limited edition t-shirt, key chain, pin and challenge coin to mark this milestone.
The charcoal-colored cotton T-shirt comes in sizes Small-4XL and features “W1AW…
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