Special event station KP4AO Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will be on the air Sunday, November 10, 1230-2000 UTC.
“We will be on the air commemorating our 50th anniversary of Radio Astronomy Science,” explains Angel M. Vazquez, WP3R, the head of telescope operations and RFI/spectrum manager at the facility. “We will operate 20 meter phone only at around 14.250 MHz. All participants locally w…
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Special event station ZM9ØDX will be on the air from New Zealand during the full month of October to mark the 90th anniversary of that country’s first DX activities on the amateur bands and to commemorate the DX pioneers who made them happen.
The first New Zealand-to-Australia contact took place in April 1923, followed by then-world record contacts between New Zealand and Argentina the following…
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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor
This week, the end of Surfin’ is the least of your worries.
After 622 installments of Surfin’, this may be the last.
In case you have not heard, a Mayan calendar predicted that today — December 21 — is doomsday. To mark that final event, N0D, a special event station “celebrating the end of the world” will be on the air until the bitter end.
The N0D webs…
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