Photo: ham-yota.com We are very happy to announce that on December 1st, 2018, the Young Amateurs Radio Club will be holding its’ second ever contest, and first annual Winter QSO Party, sponsored by Hamstudy.org! The goal of this amateur radio contest is to get the youth involved; to incentivize everyone to get on the air, there are loads of […] Read more
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Earth Science Week What is hoped will be the first annual “Get Your Park ON” operating event will take place October 14 – 20, in celebration of Earth Science Week. The event is open to Amateur Radio operators around the world and is sponsored by the national affiliates of World Wide Flora and Fauna (WWFF), […] Read more
Jamboree on the Air – JOTA Scouting organizations are still registering to participate in the 2018 Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) over the October 19 – 21 weekend. With about 1 month to go, JOTA Coordinator Jim Wilson, K5ND, told ARRL that registration is “probably on target” at this point. US registrations stood at 235 as of […] Read more
CQ WW RTTY Held each year on the last full weekend of September, the contest draws over 15,000 participants and over 3300 log submittals from around the world. Rules Translations (pdf) English中文 [Chinese]Deutsch [German]Español [Spanish]Suomeksi [Finnish]Έλληνες [Greek]Italiano [Italian]日本語 [Japanese]Norsk [Norwegian]Русский [Russian]Portugueseбългарски [Bulgarian]RomanianTürk [Turkish] Archive Rules from previous years The 2018 CQ World Wide RTT... Read more
FT8 Contest – WSJT-X Photo:EA2CCG “A one-hour “practice contest” will be held next week using the FT8 mode and the ARRL RTTY Roundup rules. Thursday, 27 September 0200-0259 UTC (Wednesday evening, NA time) Dial frequencies 7.078 and 14.078, everyone works everyone. To participate you must use WSJT-X 2.0. The Windows installation package is linked at the […] Read more
!Five nine zero five” Rokas first time operate contest. All Asia SSB contest. Single op. All bands. 7 hours total time ON. 4 hours Saturday and 3 hours Sunday. 100 qsos ! Read more
The event center is hotel Ibis in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. The host of the championship is KFRR, Kazakhstan federation of radiosport and radioamateurs. The opening ceremony took place at the “Pupil’s Palace” just across hotel Ibis. Representatives of the Kazakhstan government, administration of the city of Astana, and guests attended the opening ceremony. […] Read more
ARRL’s Collegiate Amateur Radio Initiative (CARI) will sponsor the first Collegiate QSO Party in mid-September, just as the fall semester gets under way. The new operating event is part of the larger effort to promote a renaissance of Amateur Radio clubs on college and university campuses. “Discussion of this sort of event has come up in multiple […] Read more
The new 222 MHz & Up Distance Contest, the 10 GHz & Up, and the ARRL September VHF Contest are upon us…or approaching rapidly. Here are some details: 222 MHz & Up Distance Contest: This weekend! The second running of this event runs from 1800 UTC on Saturday, August 4, and concludes at 1759 UTC […] Read more
CQ has announced that, effective with 2018 contests, some modifications to the CQ World Wide Contest rules have been developed and approved by the contest committee. The “busted call/NIL” penalty is reduced from 3× to 2×. Email addresses for log submissions have been removed, and the committee now “strongly prefers” using web uploads to submit logs. Paper logs will still be […] Read more
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