The DX Century Club (DXCC) is one of the oldest and most recognized awards in amateur radio. The premise is simple: confirm contacts with one hundred unique countries, receive an award. Of course, it’s a bit more complicated than that. There is a modest set of well-defined rules governing the conditions under which contacts may…
A few things I was able to pick up that I thought would be interesting. “Yaesu” is frantically developing a replacement for the “FT-897″ as one of the front panel components is being “End of Life” from the manufacturer. They do not have many components stockpiled, around 200 will go into new radios that they…
STACKING ANTENNAS – VOLUME 1. Volume 2 to follow by mid-October 2014. When the thought of stacking antennas first occurs, one usually looks on the Internet for information about this to establish the associated benefits and different styles (if any) of so doing. It seems always to be the case for one that a reasonable…
N1MM Logger is the world’s most popular ham radio contest logging program. For CW, phone and digital modes, its combination of contest-optimized features is unmatched. The program can be used with Windows XP/Vista/Seven/Eight. It has been designed to run satisfactorily on a 1 GHz Pentium III with 512 MB of memory or more, depending on…
The 434 MHz solar powered party balloon B-64, launched by radio amateur Leo Bodnar M0XER, is approaching the UK at the end of its record breaking journey around the world Leo launched his balloon from Silverstone in the UK on July 12, 2014. It traveled east across Asia, the Pacific and the Americas and is…