NCDXF Press Release In April 2021, NCDXF announced the creation of an award – “The DXcellence Award”– to be awarded to the outstanding DXpedition of the last 12 months, which received funding from NCDXF. The award is intended to recognize excellence in a DXpedition, exemplified by practices, ethics, management, transparency, […]
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Many friends asking me to comment the new ZACH Iambic Magnetic paddle which I am now using. So, my trusty N2DAN Mercury has now a longer vacation and the new ZACH became my daily-paddle. It is very easy to adjust, much easier then the Merc. And once adjusted, I can forget what, where and why...
Officially licensed amateur radio operators may now use their call sign as their alternate name, or nickname, on their individual Facebook profiles. This thanks to Richard Bobbitt, NW7OR, who recently organized a petition drive on the social media site in the hope of achieving this goal. It turned out that […]

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 […]
For those of us who grew up building Heathkits and hoped that the company would rebuild itself successfully, it looks as though there is no longer any hope. The Heath Co. was founded in 1926 as an aircraft company but shifted its focus several times to remain competitive. After World […]
The CW Operators’ Club announces its CW Academy, a program aimed at increasing the fun of using CW in the world of Ham Radio. The program addresses all levels of enthusiasts; from those aspiring to become licensed operators with a desire to learn Morse Code, all the way to veteran […]
It is japanese pronunciation of A1 CLUB! Homophone Kanji-character for ei-wan ku-ra-bu is selected by Hiro, JA1HHF. He selected Kanji-character carefully including profound meaning. He said that CW enthusiasts gathered in our club have various talents on CW operation. Someone runs Morsecode very fast by his sharp arm, and someone […]
In addition to the web interface at http://www.hamqth.com/dxcluster.php there is also new DX cluster node OK2CQR-1, accessible from telnet hamqth.com 7300. It can be defined in your logging contesting in the following way: address: hamqth.com port: 7300 login: your_call_sign (ie. G3ABC) Congrats to Petr OK2CQR who created this very complex […]