IARU Contest
About
Objective: to contact as many other amateurs, especially IARU member society HQ stations, around the world as possible using the 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meter bands.
Online Log Submission – logs mustw be uploaded within 5 days after the event via the preferred online web service atcontest-log-submission.arrl.org.
Paper Log Submission – logs must be mailed/postmarked (within 5 days after the event) to: ARRL Contest Logs (IARU), 225 Main St, Newington CT 06111 USA.
Contest Software
Tools
Score Distributor
Review
Words and music by the late Maurice Durieux VE2QS and VE2BR. Played by VE2QS and his orchestra. Produced around 1951. Source:https://swling.com/ Read more
News
Dayton Hamvention® Invites 2020 Award Nominations
Dayton Hamvention® is inviting nominations for its 2020 awards. Nominations are due by February 15, 2020. Awards will be granted for Amateur of the Ye... Read more
Indonesia Earthquakes – Emergency Frequency 2019
Emergency Net on 7.110 MHz “A tsunami alert has been issued after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the northwest of Indonesia‘s Maluku Isla... Read more
Equipment
RF-KIT Power Amplifiers RF2K-S
RF-KIT Power Amplifier RF2K-S – THE Solid State 1,500 watt linear amplifier DX Engineering exclusive! Both kit and assembled versions offer exac... Read more
3D printed desktop rack for KX3 / PX3
“Robert K5TD makes me wish I had a KX3. His own design of a 3D printed rack beautifully shows off the radio and panadapter and, from observation... Read more
RigExpert Stick 230 100kHz – 230MHz Analyzer
RigExpert Stick 230 Small. Handy. Powerful. The analyzer is designed for measuring SWR (standing wave ratio), return loss, as well as other parameters... Read more
Small QRP-GO-BOX powered by Raspberry Pi4, KX2 and TH-D74
Small multifunctional, digital, very compact amateur radio station for the radio operation at home, on the way or in the emergency radio. For the digi... Read more
Recent Posts
Dayton Hamvention® Invites 2020 Award Nominations
Dayton Hamvention® is inviting nominations for its 2020 awards. Nominations are due by February 15, 2020. Awards will be granted for Amateur of the Ye... Read more
Indonesia Earthquakes – Emergency Frequency 2019
Emergency Net on 7.110 MHz “A tsunami alert has been issued after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the northwest of Indonesia‘s Maluku Isla... Read more
RF-KIT Power Amplifiers RF2K-S
RF-KIT Power Amplifier RF2K-S – THE Solid State 1,500 watt linear amplifier DX Engineering exclusive! Both kit and assembled versions offer exac... Read more
Still Time to Work TX7T in the Marquesas Islands
The Marquesas TX7T DXpedition, sponsored by the Can-Am DXpedition Group, moved on to Hiva Oa on November 6. Operation is scheduled to continue until N... Read more
5 element Long Boom 144MHz LFA-Q Super-Gainer Quad Style Yagi
Description A 5 element Long Boom (2.1m) LFA-Q (Super-rigid Quad-style) Super-Light Quad Style Yagi for 144 – 145MHz The LFA-Q Packs a bigger... Read more
Mount Athos activity – SV2RSG/A
Mount Athos activity Monk Iakovos, SV2RSG, has been active as SV2RSG/A from the Holy Monastery of Koutloumousiou of Mount Athos. Activity has been on... Read more
Russian OTH Radar Now Reported to be “Everywhere”
[UPDATED and CORRECTED @ 1625 UTC on November 2019] The latest International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 Monitoring System (IARUMS) newsletter report... Read more
AMSAT Says HuskySat-1 Paving the Way for Further Cooperation
After deployment, HuskySat-1’s 1,200 bps BPSK beacon on 435.800 MHz should be active and decodable with the latest release of FoxTelem. HuskySat-1 is... Read more
VP6R Timelapse video. © EY8MM
DX-pedition to Pitcairn island. VP6R from Nodir Tursun-zade on Vimeo. DX-pedition to Pitcairn island. VP6R. October-November 2019. Read more
CQ SERENADE! Music
Words and music by the late Maurice Durieux VE2QS and VE2BR. Played by VE2QS and his orchestra. Produced around 1951. Source:https://swling.com... Read more
MFJ-1924 Programmable Screwdriver Antenna Controller
Programmable Screwdriver Antenna Controller 10 Memories. . . Super Accurate. . . AutoPark . . . StallProtector. . . Super bright LEDs Tuning your mobi... Read more
The New SDRplay RSPdx receiver – First Impression: Excellent!
“Today i have received the new SDR receiver from SDRplay, the RSPdx and was eager to turn it on and do some tests receiving on HF and VLF. Altho... Read more
ANTUINO – A compact Radio Lab for Antennas, Radio circuits
What can it do? SWR The Antuino measures the SWR of the antenna with a narrowly tuned receiver. A simpler resistive bridge with a diode detector will... Read more
The new Malahit-DSP: A portable all-in-one wideband SDR receiver
Technical Specifications 1 MHz to 1000 MHz. Bandwidth 160 kHz. Modulation types AM, WFM, NFM, LSB, USB. Powered by one Li-ion cell. Consumption up to... Read more
3D printed desktop rack for KX3 / PX3
“Robert K5TD makes me wish I had a KX3. His own design of a 3D printed rack beautifully shows off the radio and panadapter and, from observation... Read more
Access to 60 Meters Continues to Expand
According to the latest edition of The 5 MHz Newsletter, regulatory agencies in an expanding list of countries have granted amateur radio access to a... Read more
5 Elements wire yagi for 80m
There were a lot of questions on wirebeam yagi on 80m. Here is a diagram. This is used on RL3A, K1LZ and similar on EW6W Source: Roman Levichev Read more
WRC-19 Day 9 and 10: Satellites, 50 MHz and 1240-1300 MHz
The RSGB have released a report on days 9 and 10 of the 2019 World Radiocommunication Conference being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from October 28... Read more
Russian OTH Radar Contayner now everywhere
The latest IARU-R1 Monitoring System newsletter reports the Russian Over-The-Horizon Radar Contayner has been active in the 7, 10, 14 and 18 MHz amate... Read more
Two Online Competitions to win Icom Prizes!
“We have two online competitions giving you the chance to win Icom prizes. You can enter both competitions by clicking on the links below: Win a... Read more
New Ham Radio Deluxe v6.7 now available for download
HRD Software is proud to serve over 30,000 ham radio customers in 136 countries. Thank you to our customers in Afghanistan, Anguilla, Argentina, Austr... Read more
IARU and Amateur Radio are Reaching “an Inflection Point”
Participants at the 45th meeting of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Administrative Council (AC) in late September discussed the organizat... Read more
The K7RA Solar Update – 11/08/2019
Two new sunspot groups appeared this week, on two consecutive days, each lasting for only a day, with a daily sunspot number of 11 and 13 on Friday an... Read more
A new world record on 630 meters ?
SARL News report that Eric Tichansky, NO3M and Roger Crofts, VK4YB, are claiming a new world distance record on 630 meters (472 to 479 kHz). They work... Read more
HamSCI Founder Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, Wins $1.3 Million Ionosphere Study Grant
Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, now a University of Scranton physics and electrical engineering professor, has won a $1.3 million National Science Foundati... Read more
