Month: January 2022

RI0BI – Isachenko Island, AS-050 Jan 29, 2022 According to EU7A, the R150WS team will try to visit Isachenko island, AS-050 while enroute to AS-104. They will sign RI0BI if QRV from there. Snowmobile Expedition R150WS to Rykachev Island AS-104 January 13, Read more…

Weather permitting, look for David FT4YM to possibly be active from Casey Station, Antarctica as VK0/FT4YM or VK0/F4FKT for a few days starting Sunday. He will then return home to France.

This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by The Daily DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. GEORGIA, 4L. Ilya, R3XA Read more…

British Columbia QSO Party 2022 presented by the Orca DX and Contest Club Key Details: Date/Time: 1600z Feb 5 to 0359z Feb 6 AND Feb 6 1600z to 2359z Feb 6 Objectives: Stations outside BC have to find as many Read more…

Winter Field Day Association (WFDA) is a dedicated group of Amateur Radio Operators who believe that emergency communications in a winter environment is just as important as the preparations and practice that is done each summer but with some additional Read more…

Radio amateurs from St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region will activate the following special event/memorial stations R900DM (QSL via RC1C), R900DV (via the Bureau), R900RO and R900BL (QSL via UF1M) between now and January 31st. Activity is to commemorate/dedicate the Read more…

Nasa spots solar explosion with the potential to cause radio blackouts on Earth Nasa has caught sight of an explosion more than 100 million km from Earth. The explosion was a solar flare — a powerful burst of energy on Read more…

NEWS UPDATE – Chris, W2RTO is now the operator at McMurdo Station, Ross Island AN-011. He arrived recently along with Tim KG5SBS. Logs will be sent regularly to QSL manager K7MT who will then upload to LoTW.

Island activities: The following are IOTA operations that were active this past week between January 17-22nd (as per the DXCluster): IOTA Callsign Island/GROUP Bands/Modes —— ———- ————- ———— AF-014 CT3MD MADEIRA 15m; SSB AF-017 3B9FR RODRIGUES 20/10m; CW/SSB/FT8 AF-022 ZD7FT Read more…

On the scene with YC5YC/7…Jan 23, 2022 Donny YB0DX (newly elected ORARI-Indonesian Amateur Radio Chairman) and Dave YC5YC (Founder & Director of DXPortable Amateur Radio) will be active from Borneo OC-088 during January 23-24, 2022. QRV on all HF bands, Read more…