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The five islands of the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean Sea are to undergo constitutional status changes next month and result in a four new DXCC entities
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In 1949 the 5 metre band (56 MHz) was taken away from UK Radio Amateurs and allocated to TV broadcasting
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The Wednesday, September 1, edition of the BBC2 TV show Coast is now on the web and features an attempt to recreate the original war-winning experiment which proved that radar would work
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The forthcoming Spratly Islands DXpedition is looking for some extra operators
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ICPO - Islands, Castles and Portable Operations. Probably the most comprehesive ham radio activity listings available anywhere on the internet
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The Beaver County Times reports Bob Pointer N9XAW flashed 'bye' - dash, dot, dot, dot; dash, dot, dash, dash; dot - in Morse code with a signal light from the third deck of LST 325 as it left a crowd lining the Ohio River at the New Cumberland Locks and Dam Tuesday evening
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The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity
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The DX fraternity is eagerly looking forward to the day that Heard Island VK0-H, in the top ten of the world?s most wanted DX entities, is activated again
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The amateur radio special event station GB2STI will be operating once again this year on the 25th/26th September from the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland's base in Whitehead, Co Antrim, as part of the Natonal Railways on the Air
Thu, 02/09/2010 - 07:15
CQ magazine has launched a new, easy-to-navigate website, and is celebrating with a special web-only discount offer
Thu, 02/09/2010 - 07:15
AmateurRadio.com is offering a free prize drawing. With the help of our generous sponsor, Wouxun.us, we’re holding a drawing for a Wouxun KG-UVD2 Dual-Band HT (US$107 value)
Thu, 02/09/2010 - 07:15
UK-based Radio Caroline says its radio ship Ross Revenge is to have a new antenna system installed
Thu, 02/09/2010 - 07:15
Members of the Royal Jordanian Radio Amateurs Society (RJRAS) will activate special event station JY7P between September 17–19th
Thu, 02/09/2010 - 07:15
The Danish government says that it backs the filing of terrorism-related charges against two Denmark-based companies behind a Kurdish television station that prosecutors accuse of promoting the PKK militant group
Thu, 02/09/2010 - 07:15
Randy N0TG, reports: Operation dates have been modified slightly due to logistics matters: October 21–29th, 2010
Thu, 02/09/2010 - 07:15
Peter Hale, G4OAD became a Silent Key 24th August 2010, aged 82 years. He leaves his wife Vera and sons Simon and Kevin
Thu, 02/09/2010 - 07:15
On Tuesday, September 7, Peter Best G8BLS will give a talk on the Wireless Communications issues that arose during Operation Market Garden in 1944
Thu, 02/09/2010 - 07:15
The Loughton and Epping Forest Amateur Radio Society (LEFARS) will be at Chingford Plain, this coming Sunday, September 5, to activate GB2EFF from the City of London Corporation’s, Epping Forest Festival
Thu, 02/09/2010 - 07:15
Following the proposal of one of our members for a nation-wide operation using amplitude modulation on 144 MHz, the ‘Associação de Radioamadores do Litoral Alentejano’ invites everyone to participate in a special AM transmission commemoration, using the 80, 40, 20, 10 and 2 metres bands, Sunday, September 19, 2010
Thu, 02/09/2010 - 07:15
Another very lean week with the weekend a little better but still not exactly jumping. I think UT7IL should get a mention for being consistently good at both spotting and making contacts. But, take Tuesday, with that DX about, why were more people not working them? It’s a mystery