Year: 2021

Radio club to honor crew of lost submarine The submarine USS Squalus sank in the Gulf of Maine on May 23, 1939. Twenty-six of its crew were lost, but, miraculously, 33 others were saved. The Maine Ham Radio Society, based Read more…

The Miller-DX-Club celebrates Yuri Gagarin’s space flight with the callsigns RA60YG-RZ60YG, R1994YU, R1996VK, R2014NC, RG21DS, RU21DS, R60MCC, R60CTC, and R60YAG between April 12 and 25. The club also issues several awards around their activity. QSL via RQ7L DXNL

RAC Announces “Get on the Air on World Amateur Radio Day” Event 04/13/2021Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) has announced the “Get on the Air on World Amateur Radio Day” operating event. World Amateur Radio Day (WARD) is observed each year Read more…

SABLE ISLAND DXPEDITION – REVISED DATE IS OCTOBER 2022 43.9337 N, 59.9149 W;     GRID : GN03BW;   IOTA :  NA-063 The Sable Island CY0C DXpedition team was informed this week by the Parks Canada-Sable Island manager that our scheduled October 2021 Sable DXpedition would Read more…

YOTA Announces New Three-Times-a-Year Contest “Team YOTA” of Youngsters on the Air in IARU Region 1 has announced it will sponsor a new contest, the YOTA Contest. Open to all radio amateurs, it takes place three times a year and runs Read more…

Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC), the national association for Amateur Radio in Canada, is conducting an online survey to find out how to better serve Canadian Amateurs. Note: you do not need to be a RAC member to take the survey. Read more…

Registration for Spring 2021 RAC Basic Course is now underway https://www.rac.ca/rac-online-basic-amateur-radio-course-spring-2021/ For immediate release: Radio Amateurs of Canada is once again offering an online Amateur Radio course so that individuals from all across Canada can obtain their Amateur Radio Operator Certificate with Basic Qualification Read more…

Mar 19, 2021 UPDATE – After numerous set-backs and hiccups, the team are in position to head to the island of Bol’shoy Begichev, AS-152  tomorrow (March 20) Site: https://www.dx-world.net/ri0q-bolshoy-begichev-as-152/

UPDATE – Erik’s time on Jan Mayen is coming to an end soon. He arrives back in mainland Norway in early April – then the QSL card service via OQRS Club Log will be opened. FEBRUARY 27, 2021 – JX2US is approaching 20,000 QSOs. Read more…

[QRV] VK9CE – Cocos Keeling Island Mar 20, 2021 UPDATE – One of the radio operator positions (including all CW contacts) isn’t uploading in real-time to Club Log/eQSL etc. Therefore, the team are doing this manually about once a day Read more…