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YU8 Kosovo Activity

Kosovo is part of Kosovo and Metohia, Serbien Province. License with call YU8/.. is valid only if coming from RATEL, Serbien Republic Telecommunication Agency. In teritory of Serbia is not valid CEPT reciprocity.

In KOSMET existing Amateur Union of Kosovo and Metohia, President is Dr. Dragan Radovanovic, YU8RD with more than 100 members with valid license.

International team, operating now from KOSMET is without license, demonstrating power and using confusion in this Serbien Province.

This team must work with valid license and not with wishes to be FIRST.

SRS Savez radioamatera Srbije
Amateur radio union of Serbia
IARU liaison: dr Hrane Milosevic, YT1AD

P.D. 17th February 2008

3A/EA1DVY, Monaco

Carlos Almazan, EA1DVY will be operating from the Principality of Monaco as 3A/EA1DVY - between 23-February 3-March 2008. His main focus is TOP band 160m and participation in the World contests: CQ WW 160 DX SSB the days 23/24 February 2008 and International ARRL DX SSB 1/2 March, 2008. The rest of the time also in 160 meters (1,843 MHz) and occasionally in another bands.

7P8FC DXpedition Lesotho

Belgium operators and members of the Radio Club Secunda from South Africa will be active from Katse Dam in Lesotho from 27 March 2008 to 3 April 2008 as 7P8FC. The team is Filip ON4AEO (previously operated 3DA0FC), Kath ON7BK (previously operated 3DA0FC), Gert ZS6GC (previously operated 3DA0FC), Sid ZS5AYC, Lucas ZS6ACT, Tom ZS6TMO, Adele ZR6APT, Edwin ZS5BBO, Janet ZS5JAN, Steffi and Elna.

They will be active on the following frequencies and modes:

QSL cards FJ/OH2AM released

Congratulations on making QSO with FJ/OH2AM, Saint Barthelemy Island, the latest DXCC Entity # 338.
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VP6DX Ducie Island on the

Today morning VP6DX went on air. They are already producing good signals in Europe on 40m and 80m.

VP6DX is an international DXpedition to Ducie Island. The team will operate until the end of February with a seven stations on 160 till 6m CW/SSB/RTTY. Most (if not all) will have a KW amplifier.

On the website http://ducie2008.dl1mgb.com is an online QSL Request System.

If you have to send your QSL card direct, we would like to ask you to follow these instructions:

Please mark VP6DX on the envelope (it's easier to sort QSLs then) and send it to:

Carsten Esch
Drosselweg 3
21376 Salzhausen
GERMANY

Non EU stations: send a SAE (Self Addressed Envelope) plus 3 US$ or 2 Euro or 1 valid IRC (Note: the exchange rate from the US$ to Euro is so low that we cannot cover return postage with only 2 US$)
EU stations: send a SAE (Self Addressed Envelope) plus 1 US$ or 1 Euro or 1 valid IRC
This postage allows us to send one letter with 20 grams = 1 QSL card + envelope
If the SAE and/or (not enough) postage is missing we will return via bureau.
If you were happy with our DXpedition and you got a new country or new bands/modes, we would be glad to receive some extra donation to cover our costs and this will also allow us to plan and finance our next DXpedition. Thank you!

Please remember that we can only accept the new valid IRCs for direct return. QSL cards sent with old IRCs will be answered via the bureau. As soon we start QSL'ing, we will confirm all your QSO's (without dupes). Don't worry! The QSL's will be sent in this order:

Online DIRECT QSL requests
Direct QSL requests
Online BUREAU QSL requests

AO-51 February Schedule

February 8 - February 12 FM Repeater, V/US Uplink: 145.920 MHz FM, NO PL Tone Downlinks: 435.300 and 2401.200 MHz FM February 13 - February 14 FM Repeater, L/US Uplink: 1268.700 MHz FM, NO PL Tone Downlinks: 435.300 and 2401.200 MHz FM
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XR7A Ascension Island and XR7W Wager Island

CE6TBN, HA1AG, RA0FU and RV1CC will be active as XR7A from on 2-6 February and as Ascension Island (SA-043) XR7W from Wager Island (SA-053) on 9-12 February (weather permitting).

They will focus on 30, 40 and 20 metres. Depending on Internet availability, Zoli (HA1AG) will try to update his travelblog ha1ag.wordpress.com during the trip. QSLs via HA1AG.

ISS Repeater

The ISS cross band repeater is on and functioning as of this announcement. It is on uplink - 437.800FM Downlink - 145.800FM. It is quite strong and can be heard well on a simple setup.

YI9PT, Iraq

Reidar Larsen, K2PT has obtained a licence and will commence operation from Iraq imminently as YI9PT. Initially he will operate on 17 and 20 metres utilizing a wire antenna until a SteppIR yagi arrives. Once fully operational, activity will be on 10-160 metres.

Currently, the support team is raising funds to obtain an amplifier. QSL via N4XP. Additional information, updates and log check will be avaialable on the Stafford DX Association's website www.stafford-dx-association.org.

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FO/JI1JKW - Manihi Atoll (OC-131) French Polynesia. Oct 12 - 16.

Expected to be QRV on above dates. Bands: 40 - 6m (mostly 20m) Modes: SSB/CW QSL via JI1JKW Direct or Buro

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Keith Sproul, WU2Z Critically Injured at ABQ Balloon Festival:

One dead, one critically injured after 'Wings of Wind' balloon crashes into powerline near N.M. 528. The two people who were aboard the "Wings of Wind" hot-air balloon when it crashed this morning have been identified by Kathie Leyendecker, a spokeswoman for the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, according to The Associated Press. Killed in the crash was Stephen Lachendro, and the balloon's creator, Keith Sproul, was critically injured in the accident, Leyendecker said. Leyendecker said she did not know where the victims were from, nor who was flying the balloon. The balloon was registered to a New Jersey pilot, she told the AP. Lachendro was found dead at the scene lying on the side of a ditch, Sproul was unconscious and was flown by helicopter to a local hospital, authorities said. A hospital spokesman said Sproul was in critical condition today afternoon, the AP reported.

This Weekend on the Radio:

Spectrum Defense: 'More Work To Do':

Defending and enhancing access to the Amateur Radio spectrum is the primary mission of the ARRL. According to ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, the League has not only protected the bands, but has also added several new ones, despite exponential growth in the variety and number of radio frequency devices in the hands of consumers and businesses. "Even our most disappointing defeat -- the loss of the bottom 40 percent of the 220 MHz band some two decades ago -- gave us upgraded status, from shared to exclusive, in the remaining 60 percent of the band," he said.

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The K7RA Solar Update

A familiar sight appeared this week, as a sunspot emerged for one day, then was gone. Based on its magnetic polarity and high position in our Sun's southern hemisphere, sunspot 1003 was a new Solar Cycle 24 sunspot; like all the other recent sunspots, it was short lived.

Surfin': More Going ATV Digitally

This week's Surfin' again considers Web sites related to Amateur Television (ATV) going digital.

Pennsylvania Becomes 27th State with PRB-1 Law on Books

On Wednesday, October 8, Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell (D) signed into law a bill that guarantees radio amateurs the right to erect antenna support structures up to 65 feet without the need for a Special Use Permit. The bill passed in the House with a vote of 196-1; it passed in the Senate with a vote of 49-1. The new law is scheduled to go into effect December 8, 60 days after signing.

Make More Miles on VHF

NEW VHF-DATABASE issue 2.50 10/2008 ready

More info at www.MMMonVHF.de

CT3/DK2ZF

Rolf, DK2ZF, is active from CT3 (IM12JS) on 144 MHz EME between today (10th of october) until 22nd October 2008

VK9DWX

VK9DWX - Willis Island taking place October 2008

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A selection of circuits, tips, news and humour

Icom UK donate latest digital radio to Chatham House School

Radio manufacturer, Icom UK has donated an advanced digital radio transceiver to Chatham House grammar school, a specialist school in Mathematics, Science and Computing based in Ramsgate

New ARISS SSTV Web Gallery and Blog

The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Slow Scan Television (SSTV) team announces the new ARISS SSTV Web Gallery and Blog

Richard Garriott W5KWQ Space Station update

The ARISS team has a lot of exciting activities planned for the next few weeks, including the flight of Soyuz 17S to space station with Richard Garriott, W5KWQ and Mike Fincke, KE5AIT on-board

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Living in Monte Carlo

I posted this here: http://www.yachtforums.com/forums/yacht-crews/10048-my-life-monaco.html#post65529 I have memories of my time based in Monte Carlo as a Steward on board Milamba IV, a 108 foot steel displacement Feadship with a very British (Campers and Nicholson refit) style and British crew. In 1979 I had hitch-hiked to the South of France after dreaming of someday working on a [...]

360 Degree Panoramic View

Today, James popped over and helped me shove a 16 foot lightweight pole into the top of the rotator on the tower. I attached a small video camera to the top of the pole. It was quite funny because I couldn’t control the camera from the ground, so holding the pole horizontally at waist height, we [...]

New Winter 2008 CQWW Vertical

When the kids start to play less outside in the winter, I like to experiment with a new vertical each year. This year it’s a 12m spiderbeam vertical fibreglass pole loosely wound with some hard drawn copper wire. A waste pipe supplies the engineering for the radials with the SG230 doing the matching. This allows [...]

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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 [...]