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First Class CW Operators’ Club 75thAnniversary On-Air Celebration

Details: Category: Operating; Published on Friday, 26 April 2013 10:48; Written by ok2cqr; Hits: 227

To commemorate our 75^th anniversary in May FOC is holding a month-long on-air event featuring at least 45 special FOC-suffix calls. These will include GB75FOC, a special anniversary call for our club station. (GC4FOC will be used when operating from Wales, GN4FOC from Northern Ireland, GP4FOC from Guernsey, GS4FOC from Scotland, and GT4FOC from Isle of Man). A list of who is on the key of each special UK call each day can be found here. There will be many other FOC calls on the air all month from outside the UK, including some exotic locations such as 4X, 5B, 5T, 7Q, A6, HZ, KH6, V3 and VQ9.

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FOC QSO Party - 22 September 2012

Details: Category: Operating; Published on Thursday, 20 September 2012 19:40; Written by ok2cqr; Hits: 704

FOC is pleased to present the FOC QSO Party. This event is open to all radio amateurs world-wide. Its aim is to encourage the use of, and excellence in, Morse code. The FOC QSO Party is not a contest but an activity day in memory of Bill Windle, a past Chairman of FOC who was very keen that we should all be as active as possible on the bands.

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ARRL Diamond DXCC Challenge

Details: Category: Operating; Published on Tuesday, 27 December 2011 06:28; Written by ok2cqr; Hits: 549

2012 is the 75th anniversary of the ARRL’s DXCC Award--the world’s preeminent DXing award continues to be DXCC, so reaching the “Diamond milestone” is an event that we all want to celebrate. Going back to the roots of the award, and specifically reading the 1937 DXCC List (January, 1937 QST pages 52-3), we can learn what countries were counted at the onset led us to create the Diamond DXCC Challenge.

More at ARRL website

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LY37 special event stations to mark 37th Europeans Men's Basketball Championship in Lithuania

Details: Category: Operating; Published on Monday, 29 August 2011 22:20; Written by ok2cqr; Hits: 381

Lithuanian Amateur Radio Society - Lietuvos Radijo Mėgėjų Draugija (LRMD) organizing special event stations operation on the air from 2011-08-31 till 2011-09-18 to mark 37th European Men's Basketball Championship in Lithuania.

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8J1MORSE

Details: Category: Operating; Published on Monday, 30 May 2011 19:15; Written by ok2cqr; Hits: 393

The special event station 8J1MORSE, that commemorates the 220th anniversary of the birth of Samuel Morse and the first successful Morse Code communication across the Atlantic Ocean by Guglielmo Marconi in 1901, will QRV from 1st Hune, 2011 till end of Nov 2011. For detailes refer to official website http://8j1morse.a1tokai.net/ and offical blog http://8j1morse.blogspot.com/

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FOC QSO Party 14 May 2011

Details: Category: Operating; Published on Tuesday, 10 May 2011 05:45; Written by ok2cqr; Hits: 353

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Ham Among Americans Killed in Afghan Attack

Details: Category: Operating; Published on Thursday, 28 April 2011 20:42; Written by ok2cqr; Hits: 340

U.S. amateur James McLaughlin, WA2EWE/T6AF, was among the nine Americans killed in a shooting at Kabul airport Wednesday when an Afghan military pilot opened fire in an operations room of the Afghan Air Corps, according to Voice of America reporter and fellow amateur Steve Herman, W7VOA/T6AD. According to Herman, the attack was the worst single episode of an Afghan turning against his coalition partners. More information at http://cqnewsroom.blogspot.com/. This is very sad. Jim was very active on CW, RTTY and SSB. R.I.P Jim!

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JARL Emergency Frequencies

Details: Category: Operating; Published on Sunday, 13 March 2011 15:00; Written by ok2cqr; Hits: 433

As you may know, we had a terrible quake in northern part of Japan on Friday afternoon last week. After three days past, more than 2000 killed and more than 10000 missing up to now. Also, the neuclear power plants located in Fukushima-pref. is getting serious situation.

We as an amateur radio operator are gathering and exchanging emergency information on the following frequenies.

Please kindly keep clean these freqs.

3525KHz+/-5KHz　

7030KHz+/-5KHz　

14.100MHz+/-10KHz

21.200MHz+/-10KHz

28.200MHz+/-10KHz

50.1006MHz, 51.000MHｚ, 51.500MHz

144.100MHz, 145.000MHz, 145.500MHz

430.100MHz, 433.000MHz, 433.500MHz

Thank you for your kind cooperation.

A1 CLUB secretary

Atsu, JE1TRV

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http://a1club.net/

http://jo1zzz.blogspot.com/

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Interview with Alex VE2XAA/2

Details: Category: Operating; Published on Friday, 04 March 2011 09:04; Written by ok2cqr; Hits: 375

I was looking for some details about VE2XAA/2 operation for my CQ Diamond Jubilee WAZ Award application and found this very nice interview. It's worth to read!

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