International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region 2 (the Americas) has published a revised IARU Region 2 Band Plan for all allocations from 137 kHz to 250 GHz, effective September 27, 2013. The member-societies of IARU Region 2 adopted the new plan during their triennial General Assembly in Cancun, Mexico, in late September. Delegates from 18…
Best Practices for DXpedition Operating This week, I want to address DXpeditioners directly. DXpeditions during the past few months have been a problem. To be honest, some of the operating has been very poor. (That’s a polite version of what I have been reading.) Some of the DXpedition operators recruited for these operations seem to…
Unique and rare Expedition Video of the Ukrainian Voroshilovgrad city Radio Clubs UK5MAA and UK5MAF. in ex USSR Georgian Republic. “CQ WWDX” Contest 1979. The Expedition was located near Tbilisi city (the Capital of the Georga) in about 1500 meters above sea level. Crew members: UF6HV, UB5EC, UY5LK, UB5MCD, UB5MDC, UB5MNM, UB5MBY, UB5MCS, UB5MDA, UB5UN,…
A Chinese diver Li-Na who won a gold and silver medals at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney / Australia, will be on the air on September 19th, 2013 at 0100-0300 UTC on Freq: 14.270MHz. Li-Na will operate from the BeiJing Sunny Club Station BY1CW by her call sign BD1LN. All QSL cards will…
Tom Christian, who has died aged 77, was a great-great-great-grandson of the Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian and a leading citizen of Pitcairn, a tiny British island dependency in the Pacific with a current population of fewer than 50 people. Christian, one of the few Pitcairners of his generation to be educated abroad, became an internationally…