World Amateur Radio Day 2019

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World Amateur Radio Day 2019

Every April 18, radio amateurs worldwide take to the airwaves in celebration of World Amateur Radio Day. It was on this day in 1925 that the International Amateur Radio Union was formed in Paris.

Amateur Radio experimenters were the first to discover that the short wave spectrum – far from being a wasteland – could support worldwide propagation. In the rush to use these shorter wavelengths, Amateur Radio was “in grave danger of being pushed aside,” the IARU’s history has noted. Amateur Radio pioneers met in Paris in 1925 and created the IARU to support Amateur Radio worldwide.

Just two years later, at the International Radiotelegraph Conference, Amateur Radio gained the allocations still recognized today — 160, 80, 40, 20, and 10 meters. Since its founding, the IARU has worked tirelessly to defend and expand the frequency allocations for Amateur Radio. Thanks to the support of enlightened administrations in every part of the globe, radio amateurs are now able to experiment and communicate in frequency bands strategically located throughout the radio spectrum. From the 25 countries that formed the IARU in 1925, the IARU has grown to include 160 member-societies in three regions. IARU Region 1 includes Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Northern Asia. Region 2 covers the Americas, and Region 3 is comprised of Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific island nations, and most of Asia. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has recognized the IARU as representing the interests of Amateur Radio.

Today, Amateur Radio is more popular than ever, with more than 3,000,000 licensed operators!

World Amateur Radio Day is the day when IARU Member-Societies can show our capabilities to the public and enjoy global friendship with other Amateurs worldwide.

We have provided a poster for World Amateur Radio Day. Any club may download it and use it to promote WARD in their area. The poster comes in two sizes: 61cm x 91cm and a small (A4) flyer.

Groups should promote their WARD activity on social media by using the hash tag #WorldAmateurRadioDay on Twitter and Facebook. IARU will list all WARD activities on this page. To have your WARD activity listed, send an email to IARU Secretary David Sumner, K1ZZ.

April 18 is the day for all of Amateur Radio to celebrate and tell the world about the science we can help teach, the community service we can provide and the fun we have.

We hope you will join in the fun and education that is World Amateur Radio Day!
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World Amateur Radio Day 2019
Activation Information:

Brazil: LABRE Roraima PV8AA will have various activities and satellite communications with Scout participation, including by young Venezuelan refugees..
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Denmark: Denmark will be active on the 18th of April with more special call sign stations.
The callsign will be 5PØWARD and 5PØWHD.
Every single operator can use this special call signs for the 24 hours operation on the 18th.
The single operator will be assigned with a special suffix extension in mean of a personal number that shall be used throughout the day.
Extended suffix will be in the range from ØØ-99 – ex. 5PØWARD/36 5PØWHD/7.
Special station at Danish Contest Academy [OZ5E] will be activated with the call sign 5PØWARD/60 to honor one of the founders OZ1ADL Jan.
There will be a special award for contacts with stations on all modes and bands.
Further information, including rules for award can be found on https://www.qrz.com/db/5p0ward

Malaysia: On 18 April 2019 9M4CMN (9w2pck@marts.org.my) will be on the air from Segamat, Southern Malaysia and 9M4CKK (9m2cio@marts.org.my) will be active from Tumpat, East Coast of Malaysia from 0230hrs to 1530hrs UTC.

Portugal: The REP – Rede dos Emissores Portugueses will hold an Open House on Thursday, 18th April 2019, from 10h until 17h, at REP’s headquarters in Avenida Yasser Arafat 4 A, 2700-375 Amadora, demonstrating an installation of a portable and QRP amateur station, how to operate it and transport it.

United States (New Jersey): The Fair Lawn (NJ) Amateur Radio Club (FLARC) will hold an Open House
on Thursday, April 18, 2019 from 2PM-9PM EDT at FLARC’s clubhouse which is located within the Fair Lawn Recreation Center, 10-10 20th Street in Fair Lawn, NJ. Club members will be available to demonstrate the operating capabilities of its stations, discuss the many interests encompassed by amateur radio operators and discuss the role that amateur radio and the club play in public service activities by providing communication from local parades to natural disasters.
For more information, please visit the club’s website at www.fairlawnarc.org or call 201-791-3841.

Worldwide: The World Radio Network and the World Friendship Net will be participating in World Amateur Radio Day 2019.


For the second time in a row, the special event call sign W2W has been secured for this event. As well there will be a commemorative special event “WORLD AMATEUR RADIO DAY 2019” QSL Card. We will have a 12 hour net with 10 different net controllers from all over the world.


Please join us as we celebrate amateur radio all around the world on 18 April at 16:00 UTC via ECHOLINK on the “World” Conference server (IRLP 9251) and for the first time on Allstar Node #47620 – World Conference Hub.

Top Amateur Radio Websites – Issue 1911

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Top Amateur Radio Websites – Issue 1911

A Micro QRP Transceiver Project
DK7IH
A family of small size QRP SSB transceivers for the 15 MHz. Includes a cigarette pocket size QRP transceiver and a larger shirt-pocket transceiver.
A Short Course On Baluns
ve7sar
An interesting article on basics about Baluns, intoducing the skin effects on radio frequency currents and its effects on receiving and trasmitting article by VE7FO
EFHW autotransformer comparison
John Huggins
Two different ways to create autotransformer for end fed half wave wire antennas, by using ferrite or air core.
MiniTioune receiver project
F6DZP
The MiniTioune receiver project, developed by Jean-Pierre F6DZP, consists of the home constructed MiniTiouner hardware which interfaces via a standard USB 2.0 port to a Windows PC running the MiniTioune software. It can be used to receive satellite broadcasts transmissions making it ideal for use on Q-oscar 100 Es hail-2 without any external frequency converters.
Building equipment for Quatar OSCAR 100
oh3fwg
Building equipment for AMSAT P4A geostationary Es’hail-2 Quatar OSCAR 100 Satellite
Amateur Radio Artworks by K4ICY
K4ICY
Artwork Created in Verve by Michael A. Maynard K4ICY includes some nice amateur radio related paints
QO-100 Basic Information
BATC
Getting started on receiving the QO-100 satellite using standard satellite LNBs and a 60cm dish

Top Amateur Radio Websites – Issue 1910

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Top Amateur Radio Websites – Issue 1910

Home Brew Fold Over Tower
W0IVJ
A Tower Project at WOIVJ. A pictorial story of the erection of a 40 foot, self-supporting, fold-over tower.
Online Live Azimuthal map
ha8tks
Azimuthal map with DX spot reporting updated online taking source from DX Cluster spot or Skimmer
Shortened 80m Antenna
DF2BC
An antenna for 80 meters band for those who does not have enough space to setup a halwave wire dipole that is aprox 130ft or 40 meters. The antenna is an open-wire-fed shortened dipole
Choosing the correect Ferrite
Common mode currents are those currents that flow in the same direction on a wire bundle, as opposed to the currents that flow
Common Mode Currents on Coax
tomthompson
These baluns are used to attenuate the common mode current that flows on the outside of the coaxial feed line.
Receiving the QO-100 GeoSat
M1GEO
An exaustive article on how to receive the QO-100 geostationary satellite, that carries transponders usable by amateur radio operators

MagPi Magazine Features Amateur Radio

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MagPi Magazine Features Amateur Radio

Seven amazing ham radio projects featured on MagPi a popular Raspberry Pi magazine, available for free in PDF Format

MagPi Issue 80, Raspeberry Pi official magazine, contains an interesting articles on amateur radio projects implemented with Rasperry Pi.

Article is by Dave Honess M6DNT and Rob Zwetsloot and includes

Page 68 MagPi Issue 80
  • Pictures from Space via Ham Radio – Have you ever wanted to receive a radio signal from space? It’s fun and a lot easier than you might think!
  • What is Ham Radio? – an introduction to amateur radio form early days.
  • Using Ham Radio with Raspberry Pi – What you need to get started using amateur radio applications
  • Amazing Ham Radio Projects – 7 projects

Some readers raised concerns about the FM Transmitter project on Page 72. MagPi has removed this project from the Digital Edition and are investigating further.

MagPi Free PDF Download

The whole MagPi issue 80 can be downloaded for free

More Raspberry Pi Ham Radio Projects

On The DXZone we also featured 9 Ham Radio Raspberry Pi Projects and more Amateur Radio Rasperry Pi Ideas containing interesting applications that can be easily run on the Raspibian device.


CQ WPX SSB Contest 2019

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CQ WPX SSB Contest 2019

The 2019 CQ World-Wide WPX Contest

http://www.cqwpx.com/rules.htm

SSB: March 30-31, 2019 CW: May 25-26, 2019

[SSB is always the last full weekend of March, CW is always the last full weekend of May]

Starts: 0000 UTC Saturday Ends: 2359 UTC Sunday

Objective

For amateurs world wide to contact as many amateurs and prefixes as possible during the contest period.

Period of Operation

48 hours. Single Operator stations may operate 36 of the 48 hours – off times must be a minimum of 60 minutes during which no QSO is logged. Multi-operator stations may operate the full 48 hours.

Bands

Only the 1.8, 3.5, 7, 14, 21, and 28 MHz bands may be used.
Observance of established band plans is strongly encouraged.

EXCHANGE:

RS(T) report plus a progressive contact serial number starting with 001 for the first contact. Note: Multi-Two and Multi-Unlimited entrants use separate serial number sequences on each band.

SCORING:

A. Score: The final score is the result of the total QSO points multiplied by the number of different prefixes worked.

B. QSO Points: A station may be worked once on each band for QSO point credit:

  1. Contacts between stations on different continents are worth three (3) points on 28, 21, and 14 MHz and six (6) points on 7, 3.5, and 1.8 MHz.
  2. Contacts between stations on the same continent, but different countries, are worth one (1) point on 28, 21, and 14 MHz and two (2) points on 7, 3.5, and 1.8 MHz. Exception: For North American stations only—contacts between stations within the North American boundaries (both stations must be located in North America) are worth two (2) points on 28, 21, and 14 MHz and four (4) points on 7, 3.5, and 1.8 MHz.
  3. Contacts between stations in the same country are worth 1 point regardless of band.

C. Prefix Multipliers: The prefix multiplier is the number of valid prefixes worked.
Each PREFIX is counted only once regardless of the band or number of times the same prefix is worked.

  1. A PREFIX is the letter/numeral combination which forms the first part of the amateur call. Examples: N8, W8, WD8, HG1, HG19, KC2, OE2, OE25, LY1000, etc. Any difference in the numbering, lettering, or order of same shall count as a separate prefix. A station operating from a DXCC entity different from that indicated by its call sign is required to sign portable. The portable prefix must be an authorized prefix of the country/call area of operation. In cases of portable operation, the portable designator will then become the prefix. Example: N8BJQ operating from Wake Island would sign N8BJQ/KH9 or N8BJQ/NH9. KH6XXX operating from Ohio must use an authorized prefix for the U.S. 8th district (/W8, /AD8, etc.). Portable designators without numbers will be assigned a zero (Ø) after the second letter of the portable designator to form the prefix. Example: PA/N8BJQ would become PAØ. All calls without numbers will be assigned a zero (Ø) after the first two letters to form the prefix. Example: XEFTJW would count as XEØ. Maritime mobile, mobile, /A, /E, /J, /P, or other license class identifiers do not count as prefixes.
  2. Special event, commemorative, and other unique prefix stations are encouraged to participate. Prefixes must be assigned by the licensing authority of the country of operation.

Official CQ WW WPX Contest Rules

Be sure to read the official rules at CQ WW WPX Contest page

Contest Software

A curation of contest programs taken from our Contest Software links page

TR4W Contest Logger
UA4WLI
TR4W (TR for Windows) is a free and open source log book program for operating in ham radio contests. Based on source code of the TR LOG MS-DOS program, kindly provided by Larry Tyree, N6TR, supports 155 contests and SO2R
LM - Log Post Processor
DL8WAA
LM is a program to edit contest logs afterwards, a so-called contest post processor. With help of LM you can convert row data to many different file formats. Allow a quick input interface, and contest score for several contest. Can import & export a batch of logs and to create result lists.
N1MM Logger+
N1MM
N1MM Logger+ is one of the most popular contest logging programs for Windows and it is the evolution of the N1MM classic. N1MM Logger plus is fully free to download and to use software featuring automatic CW generation, rotator and radio control, suport for So2R, cluster support, winkeyer interface, import export cabrillo and adif formats and many more features. Download N1MM from the official web site with latest callsign files and updated.
DXLog.net
9A5K Kresimir Kovarik
DXLog.net is hamradio contest logging software for Windows. Currently supporting 200+ different contests and most popular digital modes
SkookumLogger
K1GQ
SkookumLogger is a free contest logging program for Mac OS X 10.7 or later, supporting CW and SSB events on the six HF contest bands plus 6m, 4m, 2m, and 70cm

Amateur Radio News 12 2019

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Amateur Radio News 12 2019

Amateur Radio Stories:

Here is a recap of what happened in the web this week, through the eyes of the DXZone and other ham radio sources on the web.

Top Amateur Radio Websites – Issue 1909

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Top Amateur Radio Websites – Issue 1909

Time Zone-World Map
timezone
A large printable PDF file representing the world time zones. This map gives an overview of current local times around the world. If you ever asked yourself what time zone am i in, find your answer here.
RTTY Contesting, A to Z
W0YK
Getting started on RTTY contesting. A PDF by ED Muns, presented at CTU conterst university, about amateur radio RTTY Contesting
Build an All Band HF Air Core Choke Balun
hamuniverse
The main function of the Ugly Balun is to help eliminate rf currents from flowing on the outside of coaxial cable using the principle of choke action.
Amateur Radio Clip Art
VK5SW, Rob Norman
Amateur Radio pictures to add Interest to your Website. Jpeg, GIF and Animated GIF files available to download.
V84SAA Log Online
V84SAA
Search V84SAA Log DX Pedidtion to Brunei
Gap Titan DX Antenna Manual
Installation and assembly instructions for the multiband HF vertical Antenna by GAP
BktDxCluster for Android
IZ2BKT
With BktDxCluster you can connect to all DX Cluster with DXSpider Protocol and telnet connection, filter the spots, send new spots, send commands to the cluster, set the radio to the frequency of the spot through BktRemote. Adroid App
Ham Radio Projects by Wireless Society of Southern Maine
Tim Watson
Wireless Society of Southern Maine Projects, instructions and photos for many ham radio projects and experiments, including antenna construction and modelling, kit building, station setup, restoration and more
Icom IC-2720H One Page Operating Guide
2720H User
An operating guide for the com IC-2720H VHF/UHF Radio, includes Turning the power On or Off, Selecting the Output Power, Activating Memory Mode, Operating in Memory Mode
OSCAR-100 WebSDR
AMSAT UK
This WebSDR, hosted at Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall, enables you to listen to the Qatar OSCAR-100 Narrow band transponder onboard the Es’hail-2 satellite.

Amateur Radio News 11 2019

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Amateur Radio News 11 2019

Amateur Radio Stories:

Here is a recap of what happened in the web this week, through the eyes of the DXZone and other ham radio sources on the web.

Top Amateur Radio Websites – Issue 1908

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Top Amateur Radio Websites – Issue 1908

Increase Your CW Speed with Wordsworth
K1IG
How to Increase your CW speed article by George Allison, K1IG as published on QST
CW Decoder With Arduino Uno
Hjalmar
Easy to build CW decoder based on DSP Goertzel code. If you want to build a cw decoder without using other active components than an atmel 328, Arduino UNO, then this is sure something for you.
Field Day Antennas
K9JY
HF VHF UHF antenna ideas to be used for field days. All antennas are quick to set up and take down and offer proven performance and flexibility. Presentation offered by Mahoning Country ARES
QRP Antenna Tuner project
WB0RIO
This is a project aboout compact and portable a QRP antenna tuner for use in the HF ham radio bands from 3-30 MHz, even if it’s a compact and efficient project this small antenna tuner will not match any possible load.
Toronto Surplus
Toronto Surplus
Communications Equip. & Military, Harris Radios parts, test equipment, power supplies, RF parts online dealer
Antennas of Field Day
N8HKU
Main High Frequency Antennas from the 2009 LARC FARL Field Day, Ford Amateur Radio League. A document comparing antenna performances and flexibility among a G5RV an Carolina Windom and a Cushcraft R7 vertical antenna.
IC706_BKT CAT Icom Radio Control
IZ2BKT
IC706_BKT CAT is used to control the transceiver Icom IC-706, IC-706MKII IC-706MKII/G and IC-718 from the personal computer. Works on Windows and is available in free and free donation version
Robot36 SSTV Decoder for Android
Ahmet Inan
Receive and decode SSTV amateur radio SSTV signals with this small and powerfull SSTV decoder app for Android devices. Requires access to microphone.
SSTV Encoder for Android
Olga Miller
This free app encode pictures in Slow Scan TV SSTV signals. Support the most popular modes Martin 1, Martin 2, Scottie Modes, Robot and Wraase modes. Image editing is even possible with som text overlaying features

Amateur Radio News 11 2019

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Amateur Radio News 11 2019

Amateur Radio Stories:

Here is a recap of what happened in the web this week, through the eyes of the DXZone and other ham radio sources on the web.

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