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ARRL — Four candidates for Section Manager (SM), including one incumbent, outpolled challengers to win 2-year terms beginning on April 1, while a second incumbent was defeated in a run for a new term, and one candidate ran unopposed to succeed an incumbent who did not run again. Ballots in contested races in the winter election cycle were counted and verified on February 21 at ARRL Headquarters.In Ari…
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22 February 2017
“Pista HA5AO is operating from the Molangoane Lodge, near Ha Ntsi. The lodge is located on a plateau with no high mountains nearby. The take off to the N and NW it is clear. The NE to JA is slightly blocked by a mountain but it is far enough away to not cause too much of a problem.
He is using a K3 with KPA 500. The antenna is a wire vertical on a 10 meter fiberglass pole with a remote controlled SGC 250 auto tuner. There are 12 x 10.5 meter radials with a copper ground rod. It can be tuned from 80 to 10 m, sorry no TB capability this trip due to high noise levels. The noise is s6 s9 on the low bands making the copy impossible and s3 s5 on the higher bands where copy is difficult. RFI is not a problem, at least no complains from the lodge management.
He received a Busted call request claiming QSOs on 20 February between 15:10 and 16:27. He was not operating at that time, probably a pirate.
He is operating in his free time from the orphanage project. The last operating time will be this Saturday morning when he will disassemble the station. He departs for Budapest on Sunday morning.
The log is at:
http://ha5ao.com
Logsearch & OQR”S73,
Gene K5GS for Pista HA5AO
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31 January 2017
Pista HA5AO will return to Lesotho for humanitarian purposes 10 Feb – 26 Feb 2017.
He will operate mostly CW, 10 – 40 meters during his free time using the call sign 7P8EUDXF. He will be overseeing the project at a local orphanage that he started during his October, 2016 visit and will deliver donations received since then. Logsearch and OQRS is available on ha5ao.com Please use OQRS for all confirmation requests, do not send cards via the bureau.
For the October, 2016 operation – all OQRS direct and mail direct QSL requests were posted from Budapest on 23 January, 2017, bureau cards were forwarded to the HA bureau. LoTW was uploaded 28 December, 2016.
Money donated to 7P8EUDXF will be used only for humanitarian purposes. The results of Pista’s 2010 activity can be seen at:
http://ift.tt/2fqEC4r
At the completion of this next visit the photo gallery on ha5ao.com will be updated.73,
Gene K5GS for Pista HA5AO
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Pista, HA5AO will be active from Lesotho 10 – 26 February 2017 as 7P8EUDXF.
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N1ZZZ will be active again from Diego Garcia Island, IOTA AF – 006, Chagos Islands April – June 2017 as VQ9ZZ.
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Tom, LA6VDA inform dxnews.com, that he will be active again from Svalbard Islands, IOTA EU – 026, 1 – 22 March 2017 as JW6VDA.
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Southgate ARC — A massive earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could knock out communications leaving vital rescue coordination efforts to radio amateurs
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Southgate ARC — The contact will be operated by F4HHV. The downlink signals will be audible in parts of Europe on 437.525 MHz narrowband FM
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Southgate ARC — The FCC has invited comments on the ARRL’s January 12 Petition for Rule Making to allocate a new, contiguous secondary band at 5 MHz to the Amateur Service
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Southgate ARC — Craig Fugate KK4INZ was FEMA Administrator for the entire Obama presidency. Now a private citizen… and ham… he’s looking forward to attending his local radio club meeting
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Southgate ARC — As well as recently releasing details of the forthcoming ID-4100E D-STAR VHF/UHF Mobile Radio, Icom Inc. have recently added a downloadable preview brochure of the IC-R8600 to their website which you can also download on the bottom of this page
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Southgate ARC — SOTABEAMS has introduced a low pass filter kit to complement their popular WSPRlite antenna analysis system
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Southgate ARC — Icom Inc has issued preliminary details of a new D-STAR mobile radio called the ID-4100E. The radio will come with the new terminal and access point modes that will be incorporated into its other new D-STAR handportable, the ID-51E PLUS2
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Southgate ARC — I suppose it wasn’t too bad at the weekend for the ARRL CW contest but it was thin Monday to Thursday
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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors Eric McFadden (WD8RIF) and Randy Moore (KS4L) who share a link to this rare find on eBay: a New Old Stock (NOS) Drake SW4A.
The seller provides this short description:
New in original box and packing, R.L. Drake Short Wave Receiver – model SW.4A. With manual. Old stock, never used. Stored in a safe/dry place.
Being sold AS-IS!
The seller doesn’t have a deep history on eBay, but 100% positive feedback.
I fully expect this price to rise way beyond a figure I could appropriate, but I would certainly love to purchase it. I know this: I wouldn’t leave it in the box for long. After carefully checking it and bringing the voltage up slowly, I would put it on the air. What a beautiful receiver.
At time of posting, the price was $322 US (free shipping) with one day, 10 hours to go. Click here to view.
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Recent use of HAM-TV on the International Space Station in Europe has taken this popular educational activity to a new level. The Collège André Malraux in France asked ARISS Europe for HAM-TV support for its scheduled contact with European Space Agency Astronaut, Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG. The experimental HAM-TV was possible due to the equipped ground stations in Europe to provide video coverage from the ISS downlink signal. This particular contact had voice transmissions from the ISS on the UHF band on 437 MHz, with a ground station at the school. As a back-up feed to the school was the ON4ISS ARISS telebridge station in Belgium. ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) lets students talk directly with those on board, inspiring them to pursue interests in careers in science, technology, engineering and math, and engaging them with radio science technology through Amateur Radio. The contact lasted about 10 minutes on Monday 13 February and also involved a series of five radio amateur radio ground stations in Europe equipped with the HAMTV receive capability. These were linked together forming a chain for the video from the ISS. It had a downlink signal of 2395 MHz and was streamed live on the British Amateur TV Club server seamlessly, using Multi viewer technology which selects the strongest signal.
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Ham radio enthusiasts in Gisborne will take part in a nationwide test of emergency field and emergency radio operations in simulated “adverse” conditions this weekend. The national emergency radio operations event was named in honour of Gisborne radio operator Jock White. It is held every year in the last weekend in February. “The Jock White field day was named after Jock (call sign ZL2GX) to recognise more than 40 years of his involvement with the NZART (NZ Association of Radio Transmitters) contest and awards,” said Gisborne spokesman Phill Dodds. “The field day tests organisation, radio operation, co-operation and helps to form an effective team of radio operators around the district and country. The teams can be as competitive or as social as they like. “In our case the Gisborne Branch of NZART operates at the social end of the spectrum but there is always work for all — spouses/partners, visitors and prospective members.” NZART AREC (Amateur Radio Emergency Communications) is the public service arm of NZART.
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eHam.net News — Ron Morgan, AD9I, of East Peoria, Illinois, has been appointed ARRL
Illinois Section Manager, effective February 16. He succeeds Tom
Ciciora, KA9QPN, of Sandwich, who stepped down for personal reasons.
ARRL expressed its thanks to Ciciora, who has served at the helm of
the Illinois Field Organization for more than 10 years, since July
2006.
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eHam.net News — The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program
is seeking proposals from schools and formal or informal educational
institutions and organizations – individually or working in concert
– to host Amateur Radio contacts next year with ISS crew members.
The window to submit a proposal is April 15. ARISS anticipates that
contacts will take place between January 1 and June 30, 2018. Crew
scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates.
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