Author: Ken McCormick

Aug 5, 2022 [EARLY REMINDER] Núria EA3WL and Josep EA3BT will be on the air from the 9th to the 23rd of August from 3 different islands of AF-024 reference: Praslin, La Digue & Mahe. The operation will be only Read more…

Aug 7, 2022 [EARLY REMINDER] Tom, KA1IS will be active from Longyearbyen, Svalbard (QTH: JW5E) during August 10-16, 2022. QRV on HF bands as JW/KA1IS. QSL via H/c.

SFI = 116 A index = 5 K index = 1 SSN = 69 SOLAR WIND, INCOMING: A high speed stream of solar wind is approaching Earth. Estimated time of arrival: Aug. 9th. The gaseous material is flowing from an equatorial hole in the Read more…

Aug 6, 2022 A reader recently passed on this cutting from a Spanish amateur radio magazine from 1979. It shows the Most Wanted DXCC list (globally) from then, courtesy of West Coast DX Bulletin. We then created our own table (using Club Log) Read more…

Aug 6, 2022 REMINDER – Dates have now been announced for this activity. August 8-14 from Kilimanjaro region (National Park 5HFF-0005) followed by another in the town of Moshi. QRV on SSB (check 18144, 21244) after 1500z.  MAY 30, 2022 – During Read more…

Aug 6, 2022 This is the 30th DX Shoebox find and comes courtesy of Ann, WA1S who recently posted this picture on DX-World Facebook page. We thought a good idea to share here too. It’s of the YL ops who took Read more…

SFI = 114 A index = 6 K index = 1 SSN = 69 SDO IS BACK–DATA RESTORED: Data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) are available again after technicians repaired a broken fiber optic link on August 5th. The greater than 2-day outage missed Read more…

Aug 2, 2022 “Surviving the Elements and Challenging Propagation of Arctic and Sub Antarctic DXpeditions“. Presented by Cezar, VE3LYC, Arctic DXpeditioner and 3Y0J Bouvet team member for the Madison DX Club.

Yuri will be sailing again from La Plata (Argentina) to Chalmette (USA) activating the grids GF GG HG HH HI GJ GK FK EK EL from August 6 to September 1, 2022.Planned modesCW, SSB, DigitalPlanned bands40 m, 30 m, 20 m, 17 Read more…

The latest episode of the ARRL On the Air podcast (Episode 31) provides an overview of the 222 MHz frequency band. The latest edition of the ARRL Eclectic Tech podcast (Episode 65) features a discussion about lightning protection with Ron Block, NR2B. The On Read more…