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Dayton RTTY Contesting Dinner to Return in 2014

After a 10 year hiatus, the Dayton RTTY Contesting Dinner will be back next year. Fred Dennin, WW4LL, reports that the dinner will be held Thursday evening, May 15, 2014, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Dayton. Dennin will host the dinner, and he is working now to pin down a guest speaker and door prize sponsors. (Sponsors already committed include the ARRL, Array Solutions and the Louisi…

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Surfin’: An App That’s Apt for Microwave Contesting

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ tries out a new app on the iPod Touch and revisits a blog of historic proportions.

Distance and Bearing App

Tommy Sullivan, W1AUV, created DBHam, an app for the Apple iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad to calculate distance and bearing between six-digit Maidenhead locations. It is free at Apple’s App Store.

DBHam is useful for any ham; however, it i…

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Too Old for Contesting?

The club meeting was nearly over, but Charlie hadn’t uttered a single word all evening. He was sitting in the rear of the room, which was also unusual. After 15 years of attending Lakes-of-Utah Contest Club meetings with him, I knew he always arrived early and raced inside as soon as the doors opened to get a front-row seat. The unhappy frown on his face worried me the most because Charlie was …

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