Assemble the red and black plastic housings together correctly on the first try, they fit snugly and can be difficult to get apart. See the picture below for ARES /RACES standard orientation. Note that you can assemble the red and black insulated housings in other ways for special applications. Put […]
Yearly Archives: 2013
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Here is a list of TO & TX Stations operating from French extraterritorial areas since 1987 till Oct. 2013..
Vlad Bykov, UA4WHX activated this entity as T10VB. There is no DXCC credit, also the authority issued the call T10VB is still unknown as well as chances to become a new DXCC country. Some info from http://www.transnistria.info/ Over 1000 people died in a fight for independent freedom in 1992, which […]
The First Class CW Operators Club, with its roots, history and management in the UK, promotes good CW operating, activity, friendship and socialising via its worldwide membership of 500. The aim of the Club is to foster and encourage a high standard of CW operating ability and behaviour on the amateur radio bands.The FOC QSO Party is held twice a year and is open to all radio amateurs world-wide. It's not a contest but, rather, an activity day in memory of Bill Windle, G8VG (SK), a past Chairman of FOC who was very keen that we should all be as active as possible on the bands. Stations participating in the BWQP should call "CQBW," in memory of Bill.
August 21st, 2013 – LEAKED: German Government Warns Key Entities Not To Use Windows 8 – Links The NSA Wolf Richter – “A Special Surveillance Chip” According to leaked internal documents from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) that Die Zeit obtained, IT experts figured out that Windows […]
During the month of May 2013 the First Class CW Operators’ Club hosted a CW QSO Party, FOC75, to help celebrate the Club’s 75th Anniversary. This turned into a major CW fun event for the whole month. Over 60 stations around the world signed with the *FOC prefix, making over […]
The PDF file OrionBandData which has AD5X design for a encoder which takes the band data output of an Orion and converts to proper levels the BCD data needed to band switching of Yaesu as well as ICOM amplifiers. Thanks to AD5X for the design. Download here.
[DXNL 1821 – February 27th, 2013]: Changes in the USKA QSL bureau: QSL cards for non-members of the Swiss IARU society USKA will no longer be returned with a “Not Member” stamp, but silently discarded, to save work and money. What a shame! This is known problem for many years: […]