The Steering Committee determined that after two years of offering the POC (Portable Operations Challenge) with about 18 entrants each year that it could not continue to put the resources into it. However, the Steering Committee continues to have faith in the concept and ideas embodied in the POC as a means to change amateur radio contesting for the betterment of all.

Any group is welcomed to take the approach, methods and rules and use them as-is or with changes as desired. The POC should be retained although the endorsing body might add their brand as was the case with using this website’s brand, Fox Mike Hotel.

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The ARRL report that at the request of the Chinese Amateur Satellite Group (CAMSAT), AMSAT Vice President of Operations Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA, has announced the designation of the new Chinese XW-3 (CAS-9) satellite as Hope-OSCAR-113 (HO-113).

Developed by CAMSAT, in cooperation with the Chinese government’s aerospace and education departments, XW-3 was launched on December 26 at 0311 UTC on a CZ-4C Y39 vehicle from China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center.

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VK6WIA NewsWest

Newswest for Sunday 9th January 2022 is the Contesting edition, and we have news ... Читать дальше »

We are pleased to announce a new Contest on the calendar. The WIA Australia Day Contest on the 26th of January 2022.

This is a trial contest and has a few quirks.
The rules are derived from the RD so you can think of it as a Summer RD.

Alan VK4SN and I brainstormed the concept and presented it to the WIA board only last week. They were able to turn out the approval within days so positive was the feedback.

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January 7, 2021

Дни рождения радиолюбителей на 7 января

I had quite a busy week on my IC-7600 but mainly not on Ten. I did manage to work South Korea and Qatar and Algeria on 40m FT8 and Greenland on 20m FT8. Yes, I did get onto Ten and worked the Canary Islands and the Azores but nothing special. Activity generally was not too bad. To get into the lists 5 or more contacts was needed.

Best DX on Ten, probably V51MA & V51MH (Namibia), VK9DX (Norfolk Is), JD1BMH (Ogasawara Is.), VK6IR and OC200U (Peru Special)

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Morning Schedule:

Time Mode Days
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1400 UTC (9 AM EST) CWs Wed, Fri
1400 UTC (9 AM EST) CWf Tue, Thu

Daily Visitor Operating Hours:

1500 UTC to 2045 UTC - (10 AM to 3:45 PM EST)

Afternoon/Evening Schedule:

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6 January, 2021

Island activities:
Compiled by Andreas, DK5ON

IOTA QRGs
CW: 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 kHz
SSB: 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3760 kHz

NA-103; VP2M, Montserrat:
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