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E44M - Palestine

Very good news from Palestine - an Italian team IK2CIO, IZ0BTV, IZ0EGM, IZ4AKS, IZ4DPV and IZ8IYX has granted a licence E44M. Their first activity as E44M will be from January 1 to January 11, 2009. They will have 3 stations active with beams, verticals and wire antennas on bands from 160 meters to 2 meters SSB, CW, RTTY.

They will focus their activity to RTTY and other digital modes, low and WARC bands, giving attention to stations outside Europe, when the propagation will allow it.

FT5WO Crozet Island

Good neews for everybody who needs to confirm Crozet Island on HF bands! Florentin F4DYW will be leaving Reunion Island on December 3rd, on the boat "Marion Dufresne". They will reach Crozet Island around December 10th and he hopes to be on the Air in one week signing FT5WO.

Florentin will be active 40-10 meters SSB (and possibly 80m) with FT-575GX, ATU and wire antennas. He will stay there until end of November 2009, and will return back home in early 2010.

QSL via F4DYW, direct or by the bureau after he returns back home.

BCC MS contest rules

The Bavarian Contest Club (BCC) invites all active meteor scatter enthusiasts to join the MS contest hold during the Geminids shower 2008. The aim of the contest is to generate more activity on the random frequency and make MS random operation more popular. It will also provide interesting information about MS propagation at various times of the shower. And it will give the little pistols a chance to work the big guns, who are usually just out for square hunting.

ZV5Z and ZV5V - Paz Island

A team from CRAJE ( CLUBE DE RADIOAMADORES DE JOINVILLE) will activate Paz Island - IOTA SA-027 on December, 5-13, 2008 on 80, 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10m; in PHONE and CW. They will use the calls ZV5Z and ZV5V. QSL INFO: PP5CIT

S79MV and S79UH, Seychelles

Tohru JA0UMV, and Iwa JA0UH will stay on Praslin Island (AF-024) from Nov 9-14. They will sign S79MV and S79UH in SSB, CW and RTTY running 500 watts into an inverted L for 160-30m and dipoles for 20-10m. If they do not interfere expect them to work on two bands simultaneously.

QSLs should be sent to the operator, direct or via JARL bureau.

A5100A Buthan

Look for the A5100A callsing from Bhutan between November 7th to 17th. A5100A is a special event station to celebrate 100th anniversary of the Buthan Kingdom (A5 for Buthan, 100 - one hundred - for the 100th anniversary of the Buthan Kingdom and the A suffix).

A5100A will be on the Air by the Clipperton DX Club members, Gérard F2VX, Alain F5LMJ, Jean-Louis F9DK and Vincent/G0LMX together with Pradan A51PN in /p from three other locations in Buthan. QSL via F9DK

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CX1F - San Gabriel Island, SA-057

Activity from the San Gabriel Island (SA-057) under the CX1F callsign, postponed the last month because of weather and sea conditions will finally take place on December 13th. QRV 80, 40, 20, 15, 10 and 2 meters, propagation permitting. QSL via CX2FAA

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DX News -- ARRL DX Bulletin #50:

This week's bulletin was made possible with information provided by NC1L, the OPDX Bulletin, DXNL, 425 DX News, The Daily DX, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all.

KN4LF Propagation Forecast #2008-35:

Ham Operators Connect Plantation to World:

PLYMOUTH - The Whitman Amateur Radio Club conducted a two-day special event at Plimoth Plantation the weekend following Thanksgiving. Twenty-two area amateur radio operators (or HAMs) set up six base stations and portable antennas and exchanged contacts with 216 other amateur radio operators in 32 states, 8 foreign countries and 3 Canadian Provinces, according to club President Paul Burbine (N1VTI). The HAM operators spread the word about Plimoth Plantation over the airways, explaining about the living museum and the amazement of visitors who interact with interpreters trained to explain the realities of early Colonial life, in the language of 17th century without acknowledging life beyond the 1620s.

ARRL Amateur Radio News

The National Association of Amateur Radio

ARRL HQ Welcomes New Membership Manager

The ARRL is pleased to welcome Membership Manager Diane Petrilli, KB1RNF, to the Headquarters staff in Newington. Petrilli's key areas of responsibility include programs and activities that directly affect membership growth, engagement and retention. Petrilli is taking over the position from Katie Breen, W1KRB. Breen left in October.

ARRL Continuing Education Online Course Registration

Registration remains open through Sunday, December 21, 2008, for these online course sessions beginning on Friday, January 2, 2009: Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level 1, Radio Frequency Interference, Antenna Design and Construction, Technician License Course, Analog Electronics, and Digital Electronics.

ARISS Celebrates International Education Week

With all the educational opportunities the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station program (ARISS) provides, it's no wonder that the organization has captured the attention of the US Department of Education (DOEd). According to ARRL ARISS Program Manager Rosalie White, K1STO, the DOE has been tracking ARISS's activities for a long time: "The Department of Education invited ARISS to help celebrate the ninth annual International Education Week (IEW) by coordinating three contacts with the International Space Station (ISS) during IEW, November 17-21. How could we say no?" International Education Week is a joint initiative of the US Department of Education and US Department of State.

Make More Miles on VHF

Updated: 2008-12-03 at 20:17 UTC

More info at www.MMMonVHF.de

IQ3AZ/p

A group of IV3-operators will be active in MS from JN66 square during Geminids shower, taking part in BCC MS-Contest The group will try as well having a MMMonVHF DXBlog online to spread infos (NO LOG during Contest!).

EI/ON5GS/P

Dirk, ON5GS, will be qrv serveral days from my "berlingo" shack with 4x4el vertical stack and 200W during BCC MS-Contest. He try setup as well a MMMonVHF DXBlog to spread infos (NO LOG during Contest!)...

Southgate Amateur Radio Club RSS Feed

A selection of circuits, tips, news and humour

Amateur Satellite Beginners Slides

The Powerpoint slides used in the satellite beginners session at the Leicester Amateur Radio Show, are now available on the web

CubeSat-sized linear transponder developed

William Leijenaar, PE1RAH, has developed a small 435 to 145 MHz (mode UV) linear transponder that will fit into a cubesat

DX News from the ARRL

The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity

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160m SSB Club Calls Contest - November 2008

107 in the log. Iâ€™ve no idea what my score was since I used N1MM’s DX Serial Contest template to do the logging and the miscellaneous field for logging random text did a hopeless job of being able to edit long club names efficiently. The last time I entered this contest, my log was called into [...]

Waterproof PL259 connectors for Ecoflex

I’ve been lucky enough to purchase 100 meters of Ecoflex 15 recently and the solderless connectors are awesome. Available for Aircell 7 (RG213 replacement) and Ecoflex 10 (Westflex replacement) and this giant 15mm diameter stuff, once fitted they are completely waterproof. My experience with all these products started with me laying down a few runs for my [...]

SSB Field Day 2008 - M0XXT

2008 will go down as a wet year. Both VHF NFD and SSB FD was a soaking experience. Luckily, as with most close knit teams, we laughed it off and worked through it, however a tough act all the same. I didn’t take too many photos due to the extreme wet weather however I managed [...]

Oliver's Blog

My personal blog about Photography, Linux, HAM Radio and everything else...

How to configure postfix to reject spams

Few days ago I have published quick how-to about how to configure postfix as backup MX. I am starting to like postfix more and more, it is very easy to configure and to deal with. One of the problems you will find out when you use backup MX, that it can be put down on its knees [...]

Configuring Postfix to act as a backup MX server

Lately I have been playing with Postfix, which I needed to use as backup MX for some of my domains. Initially, I was using Zimbra, but I would have to have quite powerfull server to run Zimbra for just forwarding emails / setting it up as backup MX server. Postfix is in this case much [...]

GB0SH 2008 is back!

In the last few years I have attended Special Even Station - GB0SH with a group of my friends in West Wales. This year it would be our 4th time visiting Strumble Head Lighthouse on the West cost of Wales, by Fishguard. This year there will be just 5 of us. Here is the information we [...]