Intruder Watch Story

Well an interesting time has been had by all in the past week. A Radio Amateur in Northern California, inadvertently pushed a keyboard up to his keyer, which produced a stream of dots at 25 WPM for well over a week. An international effort from Region 3 bringing in Region 1 via the Intruderwatch and…

DX CODE OF CONDUCT. Be, or not to be…?

DX Expedition 2011 to the Southern Sudan is a vivid indicator how HAM radio degraded. Recently there has been introduced such a thing as CODE OF CONDUCT. Many HAM’s positively responded to this initiative. But as a result, it seems that nobody is going to abide by this Code. It was just Declaration. DX expeditions…

CE0Y/I2DMI Easter Island SA-001

Equipment was set up and the station checked out fully operational on August 1st, with its first QSO of the DXpedition logged at 5PM on Easter Island for CE0Y/I2DMI. Operator Francesco will be operating 40,20,17,15,12 and 10 meters. You may find the station on 80 meters as well, provided enough room is available to accommodate…

Open letter to my fellow radio amateurs

By Hans Johansson, SM0IMJ Following ST0R Southern Sudan activities the last couple of days, I’m no longer that proud to be a radio amateur. A team of people spend their time and money to make a new DXCC available to the global amateur radio community; doing a wonderful job to “add another one to our…