Дни рождения радиолюбителей на 14 декабря

DX Engineering (DXE) has an interesting discussion video by Frank Donovan/W3LPL, John Facella/K9JF and Tim Duffy/K3LR, on the 'Transatlantic Test' which took place this past Saturday, December 11th.

Their discussion goes into the history and the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the "Transatlantic Test".
Video is just under 30 min. long and can be viewed below:

The True Blue DXers Club is happy to announce the 2022 DX Ultra-Marathon.
Introductory video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Pcca3J56U

This initiative was first launched in 2021, with the aim of promoting CW and SSB activity on the HF bands, during contests but also, and perhaps especially, in-between contests. By the end of the first year, we expect
that nearly 200 brave DXers will have taken up the challenge, making a total of almost half a million QSOs.

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Members of the Italian Naval Old Rhythmers Club (INORC) [IQ1NM] will be active as II1TCWC until December 17th.

Activity is to to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the first trans-oceanic wireless communication made on 12th of December, 1901, by Guglielmo Marconi. The wireless transmission took place from Poldhu (Cornwall, UK) to Saint John's (on the island of Newfoundland, Canada).

The transmission of radio waves across the ocean was not - at the time - thought possible due to the earth's curvature; this was the thesis supported by the scientists of that period. But Guglielmo Marconi managed to prove the groundlessness of those theories.

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Island activities:

The following are IOTA operations that were active this past week between December 6-11th (as per the DXCluster):

IOTA Callsign Island/GROUP Bands/Modes
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AF-004 EA8CH CANARY 40m; SSB
AF-004 EA8OM CANARY 15m; FT8
AF-004 EA8WK CANARY 20m; SSB
AF-018 IH9YMC PANTELLERIA 60m;
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