// HAM Audio

Date: February 25, 2017
Time: 11:52 GMT
Freq: 7012 KHz
Mode: CW
QTH: Curacao
Notes: N/A

Novice, Technician or Extra–start off right, where just about every awards hunter begins, with the Rag Chewers Club certificate, which encourages friendly, meaningful contacts, rather than the impersonal hello-goodbye QSO. “Chew the rag” for at least 1/2 hour, and report that QSO to RCC HQ.

Audio recorded remotly by Californian SDR.

Date: February 02, 2017
Time: 13:00 GMT
Freq: 3865 KHz
Mode: LSB
QTH: California / USA
Notes: N/A

Donetsk People’s Republic – D1DX

Callsign: D1DX
Date: 15 January 2017
Time: 06:48 z
QRV: 14200 KHz
Mode: USB
QTH: Donetsk People’s Republic
QSL: via UA6GG

Callsign: CY9C DXpedition
Date: 21 August 2016
Time: 20:09z
QRV: 10.114 KHz
Mode: CW
QTH: St. Paul Island / Canada
QSL: via WA4DAN

Video: http://www.cqdx.ru/ham/ham_video/cy9c-st-paul-island-dxpedition-2016/

WEBSite: http://www.cy9dxpedition.com/index.html

This special callsign is for the CW-marathon by R-CW-C since from the 23-rd of July to the 23-rd of August 2016.

Callsign: RL16CW (Special Callsing Telegraph Marathon RCWC – 2016)
Date: 16 August 2016
Time: 17:54z
QRV: 7025 KHz
Mode: CW
QTH: Privolzhskiy Federal District of Russian Federation
QSL: via RM4C

Callsign: R31RIO (Special event station)
Date: 07 August 2016
Time: 16:38z
QRV: 7017 KHz
Mode: CW
QTH: Russia

Callsign: R31RIO (Special event station)
Date: 07 August 2016
Time: 19:54z
QRV: 14206 KHz
Mode: SSB
QTH: Russia

Callsign: RK6JK
Date: 14 August 2016
Time: 07:45z
QRV: 14170 KHz
Mode: SSB
QTH: Vladikavkaz (South part of Russia)
Op: Valery

There are a number of different subsets to the hobby of amateur or ham radio. Many ham radio operators or “hams” are interested in one subset in particular while others are interested in and participate in them all.

Hams may like to talk to operators in other countries. They like to contest where they have to talk to as many other hams as they can in a certain amount of time following a certain criteria. Some ham radio operators like to go on DXpeditions to strange or rare places where they set up their radio station and talk to as many other hams as possible while they are there. Still others like to collect the QSL cards that operators send each other to confirm they talked on a specific band at a specific time on the air. Many hams prefer providing emergency communications in times of disasters.

There is one other subset of Ham Radio–the YL, or Young Lady. In amateur radio a female is a “Young Lady” no matter what her age. Any man is an “Old Man”, or OM, again despite his age.

Julia (R2AJY) now OE1ZYL operated by SSB and CW from Vienna, Austria. She was very active operator from VIC – 4U1VIC.

Video by RV4CT

Video by Sparky