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“Coping with Poor HF Conditions” is the topic of the current (May 24) episode of the “ARRL The Doctor is In” podcast. Listen…and learn!
Sponsored by DX Engineering, “ARRL The Doctor is In” is an informative discussion of all things technical. Listen on your computer, tablet, or smartphone — whenever and wherever you like!
Every 2 weeks, your host, QST Editor-in-Chief Steve Ford, WB8IMY, and th…
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Boy Scouts of America’s Radio Scouting Coordinator Jim Wilson, K5ND, says that, although the program name for ages 11 to 17 will change to “Scouts BSA” and begin admitting girls starting on February 1, 2019, the organization’s name remains the same.
“Perhaps the big difference is that girls will now be eligible to earn the Radio merit badge as part of their Scouting program,” Wilson told ARRL. “…
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Boy Scouts of America’s Radio Scouting Coordinator Jim Wilson, K5ND, says that, although the program name for ages 11 to 17 will change to “Scouts BSA” and begin admitting girls starting on February 1, 2019, the organization’s name remains the same.
“Perhaps the big difference is that girls will now be eligible to earn the Radio merit badge as part of their Scouting program,” Wilson told ARRL. “…
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Former CQ magazine Contesting Editor, CQ Contest Hall of Famer, and longtime CQ World Wide DX Contest Committee member John Dorr, K1AR, has been appointed as director of the CQ World Wide DX Contest. He succeeds Doug Zwiebel, KR2Q, who had been CQ WW Director for the past 2 years and has stepped down for personal reasons.
A ham since 1969, Dorr has been a member of the CQ WW Contest Committee si…
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Former CQ magazine Contesting Editor, CQ Contest Hall of Famer, and longtime CQ World Wide DX Contest Committee member John Dorr, K1AR, has been appointed as director of the CQ World Wide DX Contest. He succeeds Doug Zwiebel, KR2Q, who had been CQ WW Director for the past 2 years and has stepped down for personal reasons.
A ham since 1969, Dorr has been a member of the CQ WW Contest Committee si…
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Solar activity increased over the past week, with average daily sunspot numbers up from 5.4 to 20 and average daily solar flux rallying from 69.9 to 73.4. The previous week saw four days with no sunspots, and the recent week had sunspots on every day. New sunspot groups emerged on April 19 and 21.
Predicted solar flux is 69 on April 27-29, 68 on April 30 through May 3, 70 on May 4-16, 75 on May …
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Last week, I picked up the first season DVDs for the TV science fiction series “V” at our local library. I somehow missed this series when it was first produced in 2009–however, I do remember clearly the original 1984 series.
In the second half of the first season, a small group of resistance fighters created a makeshift basement headquarters for their operations. In many of the scenes, the camera would pan over a table with a compter (or laptop) and two radios. Both rigs appear to be transceivers or transmitters. 
Can anyone ID these sets? Please comment!
I’ll add this post to our growing archive of radios in film.
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Palmer Station (Photo Credit: Ryan Wallace and the USAP)
Many thanks to Bill Hemphill (WD9EQD) who is one of our newest contributors at the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive (SRAA). Bill approached me at the Winter SWL Fest this year noting that he has a wide variety of radio-related audio recordings to share with the SRAA and the SWLing Post.
This week, Bill shared two fascinating tape recordings he originally acquired from an estate sale box. These recordings were originally made in 1974 by the late Jim Hayward (W2PVF) in Absecon, New Jersey (USA) with two different ham radio stations in Antarctica.
This first recording is between W2PVF and KC4AA of Palmer Station. The audio starts mid conversation:
The second recording is between W2PVF and LU1ZE of the Argentine Antarctica Station. The operator at the microphone is W1PV. The recording even includes a phone patch:
Bill, thanks so much for sharing these recordings–I thoroughly enjoyed them!
I’m so impressed with the audio and signal quality of the Antarctic stations. In 1974, we were approaching a solar minimum in Solar Cycle 20. Still, I bet conditions were better than anything we’ve seen in over a decade!
I’m curious if any Post readers have ever made contact with either of these stations or even know the operators in the recordings? Bill notes that Jim (W2PVF) was president of the local Atlantic City Electric Company for many years. Would be fun to share these recordings with the some of the original operators, if they’re around!
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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Kevin Turinsky, who writes:
Just spotted a curious radio stack in an upcoming movie reviewed by The Economist:
Take a look:
“A Quiet Place” is high-concept horror at its best
John Krasinski transforms a B-movie conceit into a smart, nerve-shredding film
IN MOST cinemas, films are preceded by a polite request that patrons switch off their mobile phones. Wherever “A Quiet Place” is shown, that request should be upgraded to a legal requirement and transgressors should be frogmarched from the building. There is so little dialogue in this nerve-shredding post-apocalyptic survival chiller that it almost counts as a silent movie, and yet sound has rarely been more crucial to a story. The ingenious high-concept is that bloodthirsty, presumably alien, monsters have butchered most of humanity, but these near-indestructible crab-creatures are sightless so track their quarry using their super-sensitive ears. Silence, therefore, is more than golden. If somebody drops a cup or sneezes, they might well be punished with a foot-long claw through the belly, so any viewer who breaks the spell by letting their phone ring deserves a similar, if not so extreme, punishment.[…]
Thanks for the tip, Kevin! That screen shot at the top of the post contains so many radio sets–including a lovely Zenith Transoceanic!
William first reported this film a couple weeks ago here on the Post. I watched the trailer and it does seem to be rather suspenseful. Perhaps a new take on the zombie genre. I imagine there are no small number of radios to be spotted in A Quiet Place…
Thanks again, Kevin!
Have any readers watched the film yet? Please comment!
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PERIOD CALL REF
till 08/04 PR2CI: Ilha das Couves (SA-071) 1402
till 09/04 D4IA: Sal Island (AF-086), Cape Verde 1404
till 09/04 VA7XW/VE2: Havre Aubert Island (NA-038) 1396
till 10/04 6W/IV3FSG: Senegal 1402
till 11/04 3B8MM: Mauritius Island (AF-049) 1401
till 11/04 A5A: Bhutan 1404
till 11/04 JG8NQJ/JD1: Minami Torishima (OC-073) 1403
till 13/04 C5WP: The Gambia 1405
till 13/04 VK4COF: Hamilton Island (OC-160) 1404
till 15/04 9A22RBM: special callsign 1404
till 15/04 R108M, R12APR, UE12APR, UE57G: special callsigns 1404
till 15/04 XT2AW: Burkina Faso 1401
till 17/04 3B7A: Saint Brandon Islands (AF-015) 1400
till 19/04 Z68BG: Kosovo 1403
till 29/04 8P6DR: Barbados (NA-021) 1397
till 29/04 GB106TBC: special callsign (Northern Ireland) 1404
till 30/04 LZ362ME: special callsign 1392
till April VP8DPJ: Adelaide Island (AN-001), Antarctica 1331
till 10/05 HR5/F2JD: Honduras 1391
till 31/05 5V1JE: Togo 1385
till 31/05 L50A: special event station 1398
till 01/06 JW4JSA: Bear Island (EU-027), Svalbard 1388
till 30/06 DM90AIW: special event station 1391
till 30/06 HH70A: special callsign 1391
till 30/06 VR20: special prefix (Hong Kong) 1364
till 29/07 ZB2RAF: special callsign 1404
till 24/08 II6CNT: special calsign 1373
till 01/09 RI1FJ: Franz Josef Land (EU-019) 1404
till 20/10 IB2RT: special callsign 1403
till 13/11 OE100: special prefix 1401
till 31/12 4K100W: special callsign 1400
till 31/12 5W20SAMOA: special callsign (Samoa, OC-097) 1392
till 31/12 9A36W and 9A61AA: special callsigns 1391
till 31/12 DA200FWR: special callsign 1391
till 31/12 DJ70WAE: special callsign 1391
till 31/12 DK200MARX: special callsign 1391
till 31/12 EI100MCV: special callsign 1391
till 31/12 II2RR: special callsign 1398
till 31/12 IR0FOC: special callsign (Sardinia) 1394
till 31/12 LM90C, LM90HQ, LM90NRRL: special callsigns 1393
till 31/12 SU9JT: Egypt 1399
till 31/12 YT100SF and YU100WWI: special callsigns 1399
till 31/03 2019 GB100RAF: special callsign 1404
till March 2019 VK0AI: Macquarie Island (AN-005) 1402
07/04-08/04 PY2LCD/p and PY2DX/p: Ilha Comprida (SA-024) 1405
07/04-14/04 HB0/PA2HGJ, HB0/PA2RDK, HB0/PA3CNO: Liechtenstein 1405
07/04-14/04 HB0/PA3DFR, HB0/PE0MGB, HB0/PE1FLO: Liechtenstein 1405
08/04-15/04 T2AR: Tuvalu (OC-015) 1402
09/04-16/04 PJ5/AI5P: Sint Eustatius (NA-145) 1403
10/04-17/04 VE7ACN/VE2: Harrington Island (NA-084) 1396
11/04-16/04 VK5MAV/9: Cato Reef (OC-265) 1401
12/04-15/04 9A/S52DG/p: Krk Island (EU-136) 1405
13/04-19/04 T88UW: Koror (OC-009), Palau 1405
14/04-15/04 W4P: St. George Island (NA-085) 1405
14/04-20/04 TM3Y: Yeu Island (EU-064) 1402
14/04-21/04 T2AR: Tuvalu (OC-015) 1405
14/04-22/04 TM93WARD: special callsign (France) 1403
14/04-22/04 Z66D: Kosovo 1401
14/04-28/04 EA8/DG5LAC: Fuerteventura, Canary Islands (AF-004) 1405
15/04-18/04 DU1WQY/1: Palawan Island (OC-128), Philippines 1403
15/04-20/04 E51BCP: Rarotonga (OC-013), South Cook Islands 1405
17/04-24/04 T32AZ: Christmas Island (OC-024), East Kiribati 1405
17/04-29/04 YJ0AG: Efate (OC-035), Vanuatu 1399
18/04 5P0WARD: special callsign (Denmark) 1405
18/04-24/04 V63DX: Pohnpei (OC-010), Micronesia 1405
19/04-27/04 FJ/N0KV and FJ/AI5P: St. Barthelemy Island (NA-146) 1403
19/04-27/06 4X70A, 4X70E, 4X70L: special callsigns 1405
19/04-27/06 4X70I, 4X70S, 4X70R: special callsigns 1405
19/04-27/06 4Z70IARC: special callsign 1405
20/04-22/04 OE18M: special callsign 1405
21/04 International Marconi Day 1405
22/04-25/04 H44R: Mbanika Island (OC-168) 1400
26/04-27/04 H44R/p: Florida Islands (OC-158) 1400
28/04-01/05 YB3MM/8 and YB3LZ/8: Tinabo Island (OC-242) 1405
28/04-05/05 PJ6/AI5P: Saba (NA-145) 1403
29/04-03/05 C96RRC: Mozambique Island (AF-088) 1392
29/04-03/05 H40D: Duff Islands (OC-179) 1398
29/04-04/05 JD1BMH: Chichijima (AS-031), Ogasawara 1405
April 3W9DLE: Vietnam 1395
April GB2FWW: special callsign (England) 1389
April H44MS: Solomon Islands 1399
April II4MAR: special callsign 1391
April JW2US: Bear Island (EU-027), Svalbard 1384
April KH9/N7NVK: Wake Island (OC-053) 1403
April PF2018SLO: special callsign 1387
April VD1BOOM: Bell Island (NA-198) 1403
April ZM50GW: special callsign 1404
01/05-02/05 YB3MM/8 and YB3LZ/8: Salayar Island (OC-236) 1405
01/05-23/05 OZ18ICE and 5P8ICE: special event stations 1395
01/05-31/05 LZ110SAE: special callsign 1392
02/05-04/05 JD1BLY: Chichijima (AS-031), Ogasawara 1403
02/05-15/05 C8T: Mozambique 1403
05/05-09/05 C98RRC: Inhaca Island (AF-066) 1392
08/05-13/05 GB9OSA: Isle of Wight (EU-120) 1399
11/05-18/05 VK9LI: Lord Howe Island (OC-004) 1401
15/05-15/08 JG8NQJ/JD1: Minami Torishima (OC-073) 1403
23/05-28/05 IB0/IK4ALM, IB0/IK4JPN, IB0/IK4RQJ: Ponza (EU-045) 1405
23/05-28/05 IB0/IK4RUX and IB0/IZ4WJA: Ponza Island (EU-045) 1405
24/05-05/06 SW8WW: Thassos Island (EU-174) 1405
25/05-25/06 II1ITR: special callsign 1397
May GB4GW: special callsign (England) 1389
May H44MS: Solomon Islands 1381
May II4TES: special callsign 1391
May JW2US: Bear Island (EU-027), Svalbard 1384
May PF2018BOL: special callsign 1387
May T31T: Central Kiribati (OC-043) 1403
01/06-09/06 S9ZZ: Sao Tome Island (AF-023) 1405
01/06-30/06 LZ430PPW: special callsign 1392
05/06-07/06 VK5CE/6: East Lewis Island (OC-199) 1400
05/06-12/06 SA6G/7: Ven Island (EU-137) 1405
08/06-12/06 VK5CE/6: Direction Island (OC-140) 1400
16/06-19/06 VK5CE/6: Cheyne Island (OC-193) 1400
16/06-23/06 9A90P: Palagruza Islands (EU-090) 1405
20/06-22/06 VK5CE/6: Woody Island (OC-170) 1400
24/06-30/06 BW/DF8DX: Taiwan (AS-020) 1403
26/06-07/07 KH1/KH7Z: Baker Island (OC-089) 1400
June GB4FWW: special callsign (England) 1389
June II4AMP: special callsign 1391
June PF2018HIN: special callsign 1387
June ZM50LA: special callsign 1404
01/07-31/07 LZ380PM: special callsign 1392
03/07-17/07 FP/KV1J: Miquelon Island (NA-032) 1405
26/07-30/07 PS1S: Ilha de Santana (SA-077) 1405
27/07-30/07 F4GYM/p and F4GTB/p: Noirmoutier Island (EU-064) 1399
28/07-29/07 IJ7V: San Pietro Island (EU-073) 1405
28/07-29/07 TM6N: Noiremoutier Island (EU-064) 1399
July GB5GW: special callsign (England) 1389
July II4COU: special callsign 1391
July PF2018FRA: special callsign 1387
01/08-31/08 LZ1146SPS: special callsign 1392
August GB5FWW: special callsign (England) 1389
August II4VOL: special callsign 1391
August PF2018HAR: special callsign 1387
August ZM50MAUQ: special callsign 1404
01/09-30/09 LZ920MLC: special callsign 1392
12/09-01/10 T32AH: Christmas Island (OC-024), East Kiribati 1399
September GB6GW: special callsign (England) 1389
September II4LNZ: special callsign 1391
September PF2018DOK: special callsign 1387
01/10-31/10 LZ1545POA: special callsign 1392
02/10-29/10 WH8/DL2AH: Ofu Island (OC-077), American Samoa 1399
20/10-03/11 VP6D: Ducie Island (OC-182) 1404
October GB6FWW: special callsign (England) 1389
October II4OER: special callsign 1391
October PF2018WOR: special callsign 1387
01/11-30/11 LZ33MM: special callsign 1392
03/11-06/11 VK9XQ: Christmas Island (OC-002) 1405
06/11-10/11 VK9CH: Cocos (Keeling) Islands (OC-003) 1405
10/11-11/11 GB0AD: special callsign (England) 1389
10/11-17/11 VK9XQ: Christmas Island (OC-002) 1405
November GB8GW: special callsign (England) 1389
November II4HNR: special callsign 1391
November PF2018STA: special callsign 1387
01/12-31/12 LZ532PSO: special callsign 1392
December II4FRD: special callsign 1391
December PF2018xxx: special callsigns 1387
TBA DX8MAP: Mapun Island (OC-105) 1396
TBA DX8TT: Tawi Tawi (OC-174) 1396
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VP6D Ducie Island 2018 DXpeditionJoining the team is Ken Karr, NG2H. A CW enthusiast, Ken was most recently a member of the VK0EK Heard Island 2016 DXpedition team. Ken was first licensed in 1955 and credits amateur radio for launching his interests in science, engineering and oceanography. Ken is retired from the US Navy; his assignments included commanding two nuclear fast attack submarines and serving as the senior member of the Navy’s Atlantic Fleet Operational Reactor Safeguards Examination team. We are very happy to welcome Ken to the team. With the cooperation of Elecraft and the Baker Island KH1/KH7Z DXpedition team we will share the same Elecraft equipment. Upon its return to California the Elecraft equipment will be tested, configured and repacked for shipment to the Braveheart in New Zealand. Elecraft offered their assistance to expedite the process. We appreciate the willingness of both Elecraft and the Baker team to support VP6D. Joining our list of corporate sponsors is Cornelius Paul, DF4SA, of Spiderbeam GmbH whose products will be added to the antenna plan. Providing an All Time New One (ATNO) is a key objective of VP6D. We will keep stations on 20 meter SSB and CW as propagation permits. Additionally, FT-8 may also provide DXers an ATNO opportunity during periods of poor conditions. As previously reported, we kicked off our fundraising campaign with a generous grant from the Northern California DX Foundation, followed by individuals, DX clubs and foundations. We especially appreciate the support from the following European organizations: German DX Foundation, Swiss DX Foundation, UK DX Foundation, European DX Foundation, Mediterraeno DX Club (Italy), Clipperton DX Club (France), GM DX Group (Scotland), Radio Society of Great Britain, LA DX Group (Norway), OHDXF (Finland), and the British Amateur Radio Teledata Group (BARTG). Like any DXpedition to a rare entity, we will continue to actively solicit financial support. Of course, we appreciate the clubs, foundations and individuals that have already supported the project with their donations. A current list of all donors is available at: vp6d.com
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With the arrival of spring, we know that severe weather is near, and there is a group of Colorado storm spotters using a special skill during those severe weather outbreaks\& communication. They are the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES). The Douglas-Elbert County branch held a training session Thursday to prep for the severe weather season. With the arrival of spring, we know that severe weather is near, and there is a group of Colorado storm spotters using a special skill during those severe weather outbreaks\& communication. They are the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES). The Douglas-Elbert County branch held a training session Thursday to prep for the severe weather season. “We have hail. We have lightning, and it all comes together. This is a very busy state. We all know the expression, just wait an hour and the weather will change. Welcome to Colorado,” said Jim Rooney, Emergency Coordinator at Amateur Radio Emergency Service of Douglas and Elbert Counties. The radar beam sees what’s happening high in the storm, but storm spotters are needed to see the base of the storm, to the ground. The most dangerous part. “So we provide the ground truth. We provide, hey this is exactly what’s happening on the ground, in real time,” said Ron Coffee, Public Information Officer at Amateur Radio Emergency Service of Douglas and Elbert Counties. The National Weather Service will use the information these radio operators report when issuing or canceling warnings.
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From his basement in White City, Stan Ewert dreams of contacting North Korea. “That’s the rarest contact you can ever make,” he said. Using his 200-watt radio transceiver, Ewert has spoken with ham radio operators from 285 “countries” — a category that includes dependencies and isolated territories like Alaska. But he hasn’t reached North Korea, the holy grail of the hobby. It’s a place only a handful of hams have ever heard from. Ewert is one of an estimated 200 amateur radio enthusiasts in the Regina area. They call themselves hams, a term with obscure origins. They relish the thrill of tinkering with old equipment, helping out in disasters or, like Ewert, socializing with fellow hobbyists in faraway lands. Many are retired. Ewert has been a ham for about 70 years. It runs in the family. “My father was a ham,” he said. “My son is a ham as well. He carried on the family tradition.” But Ewert finds that his grandchildren don’t have the same interest. “Our membership is definitely on the older side,” he said. But he thinks that would change if there were more people like Daniel Dion, a local science teacher who’s trying to rekindle passion for the hobby. “It’s going to come back,” Dion said. “The future is wireless.” This year, Dion started an amateur radio club at École Monseigneur de Laval, a french-language high school in north Regina. His goal is to get kids licensed so they can become radio operators. He figures he has two or three who are genuinely interested.
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