YB Land DX Club DX-ing Is Our Life
12/27/2019 AMSAT CW Activity Day 2020 will take place on January 1, 2020 (UTC), sponsored by AMSAT. All radio amateurs are invited to participate in the annual event — in 2020 being held in memory of Larry Brown, W7LB, and Keith Pugh, W5IU. Participation is easy: Operate on CW through …
Desember, 2019
- 27 Desember
VP8HAL – Halley VI Base, Antarctica
NEWS UPDATE – Many thanks to QSL manager EB7DX for QSL preview of VP8HAL operated by Seba, SQ1SGB. (info below) OCTOBER 24, 2019 — Instead of using CE9/SQ1SGB, Seba will use VP8HAL from Halley VI Base. QSL via EB7DX. OCTOBER 13, 2019 – From mid-December 2019 to early-February 2020, look …
- 27 Desember
[CYCLONE SARAI] 3D2AG/P – Rotuma
UPDATE from Rotuma Island by Antoine 3D2AG for DX-World readers @ 05:00Z, December 26th. Greetings from Rotuma Island. The linear is behaving, and generator power available when not heavy rain, otherwise running FT8 on solar power. The 160m antenna is still not up due to king tides and impossibility to …
- 25 Desember
[UPCOMING] CE0Y/UR5BCP – Easter Island
NEWS UPDATE – Oleh, UR5BCP informs there’s unexpected problems with LATAM airline company. He arrived Santiago de Chile today and found that there are no tickets for his reservation to Easter Island and back. He mentions expensive tickets were booked, and now he will arrive on Easter Island on December …
- 25 Desember
Commemorative ARISS Slow-Scan TV Transmissions Set
12/24/2019 Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) will support slow-scan television (SSTV) transmissions worldwide in memory of cosmonauts Alexei Leonov, Valery Bykovsky, and Sigmund Jaehn. Transmissions are scheduled to start at 1100 UTC on December 28 and continuing until 1820 on January 1. Transmissions will take place on …
- 24 Desember
OPS-SAT — First-of-its-Kind Space Laboratory — Launched on December 18
12/23/2019 The European Space Agency (ESA) reports that the OPS-SAT “flying laboratory” satellite lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, aboard a Soyuz-Fregat rocket on December 18. According to ESA, the small, low-cost, test satellite was specifically designed for operational experimentation in space and includes the most powerful …
- 24 Desember
Virginia Radio Amateur will Recreate 1906 Fessenden Christmas Eve Broadcast
12/23/2019 The Canadian inventor, experimenter, and entrepreneur Reginald Fessenden has been credited as the inventor of radiotelephony. Fessenden claimed to have made his first voice — and music — broadcast on Christmas Eve in 1906 from Brant Rock, Massachusetts, although his account is disputed. As he has done each December …
- 23 Desember
KL7RRC – Adak Island, NA-039
Yuri, N3QQ informs his team have plans to be active from Adak Island, NA-039 (and possibly another rare IOTA) in June 2020. “..dates, tickets to Adak in hand..“, says Yuri. See here for full details. Furthermore, Yuri mentions the Russian Robinson Club (RRC) is now a non-profit corporation registered within …
- 22 Desember
VO2AC – Labrador (Zone 2)
Chris VE3FU / VO2AC, Frank VO1HP and Dave VE9CB / VO2AAA will be active in the 2020 CQ160 CW contest from the Point Amour Lighthouse, the tallest lighthouse in Atlantic Canada, on the South coast of the rare Labrador (LB) multiplier. Point Amour is located in the South East part …
- 22 Desember
HC2JKT – Puná Island, SA-034
UPDATE – Jon mentions he has now received his license and callsign. Look for HC2JKT during January 10-30, 2020. QRV on 40-6m, SSB only. QSL via EA1VE. NOVEMBER 24, 2019 – Jon EA1VE informs that he be active from Puná Island SA-034 as HC2/EA1VE in January 2020. Dates to be announced. …
