Regional Emergency/Hurricane Nets Please keep the following Amateur Radio HF Frequencies clear Frequency (KHz) Net 1984.0 Virgin Islands (VI, Puerto Rico, Lesser Antilles) 3710.0 Puerto Rico 3815.0 Caribbean Emergency and Weather (1030 & 2230) Inter-island (continuous watch) 3935.0 Belize 3950.0 Hurricane Watch (Amateur-to-National Hurricane Center) (altn) 7055.0 El Grupo Seguimiento de Huracanes (Spanish) 7060.0 Mexican…
Today I was running WSPR on 20 meter band with my tuned (by YAESU FC40) End Fed 9m long Wire. The results are not bad at all. Wake Island (KH9) in Pacific (WA2YUN) with 5 /50/100 Watts (Average distance = 11977 km), and all Europe including the “dark” 20m zone to OE3KFB (Austria). Also contacted…
Transceiver: TenTec “Eagle” 100w. Antenna: Random wire on fishing pole with Z11 Pro ATU. For my DX Vacation – Ten-Tec “Eagle” seems is the BEST. K3 and TS590 are too large, K2 is not stable in digital mode, FT857 and IC706 are too small to use with not good receiver. Source About Ten-Tec “EAGLE” transceiver…
Slovak Radio Amateurs are now allowed to use the entire 5258.5 – 5410.0 kHz band instead of the previous allocation of a single channel on 5260 kHz. 5258.5 – 5410.0 kHz is allowed for experimental purposes with a maximum power of 100 Watts ERP. and the licences are valid for 1 year. Petr OK1RP 5…
There is a very interesting article entitled “Soviet Hams Rally Against Coup” by Edward Kritsky {NT2X} (P.O.Box 715, Brooklyn, NY 11230 USA) in the November 1991 issue of QST. (QST is the official monthly journal of the American Radio Relay League, 225 Main Street, Newington, CT 06111 USA.). That issue also contains sidebars on “Meanwhile,…