Dear Fellow Ham, Just a quick note to let you know about a very fun, short (4 hour) contest happening this weekend. It is the North American SSB Sprint contest, which takes place this Saturday evening, April 7th, 2018 (UTC: Sun April 8, 0000Z – 0359Z) Door Prizes! One unique feature of the NA SSB […] Read more

ARRL Field Day — the most popular on-the-air operating event in Amateur Radio — is June 23-24, and official gear and supplies are now available from ARRL. Shirts, pins, patches, stickers, and — of course — coffee mugs are a great way to acknowledge — and commemorate — your participation in this annual event. There are two T-shirt color options — navy blue and white. […] Read more

Maxim Memorial Station W1AW will host a group that will take part in Winter Field Day later this month. Sponsored by the Winter Field Day Association (WFDA), Winter Field Day will take place over the January 27-28 weekend, and it can be an opportune time to prep for ARRL Field Day in June. “Assuming the […] Read more

Warm up the ham shack! The ARRL International Grid Chase 2018 is nearly here! The Grid Chase gets under way on January 1 UTC (New Year’s Eve in US time zones). The objective of the year-long event is to work stations on any band (except60 meters) in as many different Maidenhead grid squares as possible, and then upload your log […] Read more

The European Radio Amateurs’ Organization announces a new party on the air, this time with the motto: “FT8, a brand new mode“. Remember this is not a contest, it is just a radio meeting with a few simple ‘rules’, better to call them recommendations. Purpose: to spread FT8 (Franke-Taylor design, 8-FSK modulation), a new mode just launched last […] Read more

The CQ World Wide DX Contest (SSB) kicked off the fall contest season this past weekend with plenty of activity from around the world. As The Daily DX reported on October 30, some Top 10 operations from outside the US racked up claimed scores topping 30 million points. In the US, it appears that only two major multioperator/multi-transmitter high-power […] Read more

CQ Propagation Editor Tomas Hood, NW7US, updates us on expected propagation conditions during both the SSB and CW weekends of the 2017 CQ World Wide DX Contest… CQ WW DX SSB Contest conditions look poor to fair, and somewhat unstable Poor to Fair Conditions Expected Here is an updated forecast made a week in advance for […] Read more

Scouting’s Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) / Jamboree on the Internet (JOTI) reports that more than 2,500 have signed up to take part in the 2017 event over the October 20-22 weekend. This is the 60th JOTA, and there is still time to register. For those getting on the air, a Scout Station Scheduling site is available, as […] Read more

Participants Selection Area Team Leader Team Mate AF 5H3EE DL1CW AS #1 R8CT UA4FER AS #2 RC9O UA9PM AS #3 4X6FR 4X1DX AS #4 A65BP RW4WR AS #5 E21EIC 9M2GET AS #6 JH5GHM WA1Z EU #1 LY9A LY4L EU #1 ES5TV ES2RR EU #1 OH6KZP OH6UM EU #1 SM5AJV SM3SGP EU #2 F8DBF F1AKK EU […] Read more

We are pleased to inform you that Icom Inc. will be holding once again a D-STAR (Digital Amateur Radio) QSO party this year. The global event will take place between September 22nd at 0.00 and September 24th at 24.00 (UTC). We have been told that the format of the party will be the same as […] Read more