After considerable deliberation over which team placed third in the 2014 World Radiosport Team Championship (WRTC-2014), it’s now official. At the awards ceremony July 14 concluding the international Amateur Radio contesting competition, the US team of Dan Craig, N6MJ, and Chris Hurlbut, KL9A, operating as K1A, took home the gold for their winning team effort. They racked up 7,184,844 points. T…
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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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By Gary Hoffman, KB0H
ARRL Contributing Editor
Many years ago, my grandfather used to build radio sets and sell them to his neighbors. Somewhat later, just after World War II, he and my father installed radios in cars for Western Auto. They saved up their earnings and eventually started Hoffman Radio-Television Sales and Service, which was the premiere TV shop in Savannah, Georgia for a number of…
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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
This week, Surfin’ loses the DIY blahs after learning about new ham radio modules that require hacking.
Sometimes I feel like a slug. I get enthused about building something new, buy what I need to build it, sometimes start building it, sometimes not. I never finish building it because life gets in the way or because I lose enthusiasm or because I am a …
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