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• JA1XGI – Pacific trip
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• 3D2/VK3QB – Fiji
  [ May 20, 2012 to May 26, 2012. ] Chris, VK3QB will be active from Malolo Lailai island, OC-121 between May 20-26, 2012.

  Operating as 3D2/VK3QB, this is primarily a holiday with some radio as a part-time activity, mostly on 40m and up – CW.

  QSL via H/c.

• XX9E – Macau
  [ May 17, 2012 to May 23, 2012. ] UPDATE – the XX9E team inform they are not allowed to use 12m SSB or 6m SSB.

  A team consisting of EA5BZ, EA5CEE, EA6DD, EB5BBM, F5VLY, EA1ACP, EA5FX, EA7FTR and EB7DX will be active from Coloane Island, Macau between May 17-23, 2012.

  They plan to be active from 6 to 160 meters (include WARC) in CW, SSB [...]

• ZL9HR – Campbell Island Dxpedition
  [ November 17, 2012 to November 30, 2012. ]
  UPDATE from John Chalkiarakis, VK3YP

  May 19, 2012 – John, 9M6XRO, has joined the Australian Hellenic group plnning to go to Campbell Island in November.

  April 15, 2012 – We have received tentative/verbal ok for landing permit on Campbell Island. Working on finalising when the official permit will be issued.

  April 13, 2012 — Our ZL9HR callsign was only issued [...]

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CWops #825

Article source: http://ea1cs.blogspot.com/2012/05/dxpedition-y-expedicionario-del-ano.html

Esta es la Qsl de la pasada Dxpedition a Bonaire como PJ4C donde realizaron 84.492 qso del 13 al 21 de enero 2012. JN4MMO a través de Twitter da prueba de ello.

73´s, Luis
EA1CS

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Gordon G3USR

Gordon G3USR estará activo desde la isla montserrat como VP2MSR en todas las bandas de HF, pero sobretodo en 10 y 12mts. La actividad se llevará a cabo del 30 de junio al 9 de julio 2012.

• Gordon estará muy atento a las aperturas con Europa en 6mts.

73´s, Luis
EA1CS

Article source: http://ea1cs.blogspot.com/2012/05/vp2msr-montserrat-is.html

Esta es la Qsl de la pasada Dxpedition a Bonaire como PJ4C donde realizaron 84.492 qso del 13 al 21 de enero 2012. JN4MMO a través de Twitter da prueba de ello.

73´s, Luis
EA1CS

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xf3lh,cozumel island,island of swallows

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AA0AA is currently active from Mexico as XE1/AA0AA
He is active on HF Bands
QSL via direct , LOTW , eQSL
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Scott Monks , Apartado Postal 1-10 , Pachuca , Hidalgo  42001 , Mexico

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JA7HMZ will be active from Pohnpei Island in CQ WW WPX CW Contest 26-27 May 2012 as V6A
He will be in SOAB Category
QSL via home call

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05/18/2012

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ tries to unclutter the house and learns about more open source software.

Old Magazines Fill My House

I have copies of every issue of QST going back to the mid-1960s, when I first became interested in ham radio. In addition to QST, I also have mass quantities of QEX, NCJ, CQ, Ham Radio, 73, Popular Communications and numerous other radio, electronic and computer hobbyist magazines, not to mention a complete run of Mad magazines, Red Sox yearbooks and nearly every Marvel comic book published between 1961-1969 all sans covers (my dad printed the guts of the comic books; someone else’s dad printed the covers).

Before things got out of hand (or did they already?), I began migrating my magazine subscriptions from paper to bits. My CQ and Popular Communications subscriptions are now digital, as well as some of my non-radio magazine subscriptions like Juxtapoz and Rolling Stone. And real, real soon now, QST will be digital, too!

That solves the problem for the future, but what about all those periodicals from the past that are gathering dust all over the house?

QST is easy. I — and any ARRL member — can access the contents of past issues (four years and older) using the ARRL Periodicals Archives. Past issues of Ham Radio, NCJ and QEX are available there, too, so I can deposit a significant portion of my collection in the recycling bin.

What about the rest? Time will tell; maybe they will get digitized, too.

More Open Source Ducks

Following up on the open source software discussion two weeks ago, other readers (Robert Greenfield, VE5DSC, and Donald Ohse, W5DRO) suggested other open source alternatives to Microsoft Office.

I proffered the alternative that I use: Apache OpenOffice, but some of you use and prefer LibreOffice and/or NeoOffice.

On the radio-related open source software front, Elwood Downey, WB0OEW, praised SimSmith, the brainchild of Ward Harriman, AE6TY. Besides being “an excellent interactive Smith Chart,” it includes the ability to design and analyze matching networks theoretically or with real measured load data. The code even includes loss calculations, which other tools simply ignore. 

By the way, the reason for the open source discussion (finding software to lay out PSR, the quarterly newsletter of TAPR) was solved and you can view the results here.

Until next time, keep on surfin’!

Editor’s note: Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU, seeks the unusual in radio. To contact Stan, send e-mail or add comments to the WA1LOU blog.

Article source: http://www.arrl.org/news/view/surfin-old-magazines-and-more-ducks

05/18/2012

CQ magazine announced its 2012 Hall of Fame inductees on May 18, welcoming 16 new members into the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame, three new members of the CQ DX Hall of Fame and two new members of the CQ Contest Hall of Fame.

The CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame honors those individuals, whether licensed hams or not, who have made significant contributions to Amateur Radio, as well as those amateurs who have made significant contributions either to Amateur Radio, to their professional careers or to some other aspect of life on our planet. The CQ Contest and DX Halls of Fame honor those amateurs who not only excel in personal performance in these major areas of Amateur Radio but who also “give back” to Amateur Radio in outstanding ways.

The 2012 inductees (listed alphabetically) to the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame are:

• George Badger, W6TC (SK) — An expert in tubes and tube circuit designs, Badger was the marketing director of Eimac and later, president of Svetlana. He was also an active DXer and wrote many technical articles for the Amateur Radio media, including 26 articles for QST and Ham Radio. He passed away in 2009.
• Bill Brown, WB8ELK — “Father” of Amateur Radio high-altitude ballooning. His work has blossomed into “near-space” programs not only among hams but at many universities around the nation. The June 1989 issue of Ham Radio featured his article “Helium Balloon ATV Launched over Indiana.”
• Robert Brown, NM7M (SK) — A retired physics professor at the University of California, Brown was an expert on 160 meter propagation. He wrote articles for CQ and 12 articles for the ARRL from 1998-2001 that appeared in QST, QEX and NCJ, most of them — such as this December 1999 QST article — dealing with propagation and contesting on the low bands. He also authored an HF propagation tutorial that is available online. He passed away in 2010.
• Evelyn Gauzens, W4WYR — Named an Honorary ARRL Vice President in 2002, Gauzens — a former ARRL Southeastern Division Vice Director — served as the chairman of the Miami “Tropical Hamboree” hamfest for 45 years. She is an active proponent of improved Amateur Radio public relations and was the principal on-site organizer (on behalf of the ARRL as the host IARU Member-Society) of the 1976 IARU Region 2 conference in Miami Beach.
• Richard Garriott, W5WKQ — A video game designer and a civilian space traveler, Garriott was very active on Amateur Radio from the International Space Station in 2008. He is the younger half of first US father-son team to travel in space. His father — Owen Garriott, W5LFL — was the first astronaut to operate Amateur Radio from space; he was inducted into the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame in 2001.
• William W. Hansen (SK) — Known as the “Father of Microwave Electronics,” Hansen invented technology such as the cavity resonator and the klystron tube, making microwave communications possible. He was a collaborator in the development of the first linear accelerator and nuclear magnetic resonance, the basis for MRI medical imaging. He passed away in 1949.
• Richard Kirby, W0LCT/HB9BOA (SK) — Director of the ITU’s International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR), 1974-1995, Kirby helped to develop global standards for HDTV, digital audio broadcasting and mobile and satellite communications. He was previously the Director of the Institute of Telecommunication Sciences, the Associate Director of the US Department of Commerce Office of Telecommunications, the Chief of Ionospheric Research and the Chief of Radio Communications Systems Division (both part of the National Bureau of Standards, now the National Institute of Standards and Technology). He passed away in 2012.
• Fred Maia, W5YI (SK) — One of the architects of Volunteer Examiner program adopted by the FCC in 1984, Maia was the first FCC-designated Volunteer Examiner Coordinator. A long-time CQ columnist, he was also the editor/publisher of The W5YI Report. He passed away in 2012.
• Steve Mendelsohn, W2ML – Beginning in 1976, Mendelsohn began his tenure as the Communications Director of the New York City Marathon, a post he continues in today. A former ARRL First Vice President and Hudson Division Director, he led the ARRL’s effort to rewrite Part 97 in the late 1980s. Along with his wife Heidi, Mendelsohn serves as the Game Day Frequency Coordinator for the New York Jets and was featured on the cover of the November 2007 issue of QST for his work in that program.
• Larry Mulvehill, WB2ZPI — A photojournalist who has covered major news events around the world for more than 50 years, Mulvehill has served as the CQ cover photographer for more than 30 years.
• Rowley Shears, G8KW (SK) — The founder of KW Electronics in the United Kingdom, Shears helped to re-establish Amateur Radio in Germany after World War II. He passed away in 2009.
• Mike Staal, K6MYC – Antenna expert and co-founder of KLM and M2 Antennas.
• Frederick Terman (ex-6FT, W6AE, W6XH) (SK) — Known as the “Father of Silicon Valley,” Terman was a microwave pioneer, who with partner with William Hansen (see above), developed microwave communications and the linear accelerator. He passed away in 1982.
• Patrick Tice, WA0TDA – For more than 20 years, Tice has served as the Manager of the Courage HandiHam System. Through this organization, Tice has coordinated a nationwide program to provide training and assistance, helping thousands of people with disabilities become radio amateurs.
• Louis Varney, G5RV (SK) — Varney was the inventor of the G5RV antenna, one of the most popular and widely used “all around” multi-band antennas in the world. He passed away in 2000.
• William A. Wilson, K6ARO (SK) – When formal diplomatic relations with the Holy See (the Vatican) were re-established in 1984 (after an almost-100 year absence), President Ronald Reagan appointed Wilson as its first US Ambassador (they had been cut in 1867). Wilson passed away in 2009.

CQ Contest and DX Hall of Fame

The CQ Contest and DX Halls of Fame honor those amateurs who not only excel in personal performance in these major areas of Amateur Radio, but who also “give back” to the hobby in outstanding ways.

The 2012 inductees to the CQ Contest Hall of Fame are:

• Jim Reisert, AD1C — For the past decade, Reisert has maintained and updated the country and prefix files that are used by all of the major contest and general logging programs, as well as software for the major DX clusters.
• Lothar “Lar” Wilke, DL3TD (SK) — In the 1970s, Wilke built a contest station in East Germany that operated over the years as Y24UK, Y34K, DF0HQ, DA0HQ and DL3TD. After the fall of the Berlin wall, he was the driving force in the foundation of a new and independent radio club in the German Democratic Republic and then became its president. Lothar was instrumental in the merger of Radio Sport Verband (RSV) and the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC), Germany’s IARU Member-Society. Under his leadership, the German national team at DA0HQ won the IARU HF World Championship 11 times. He passed away in 2011.

The 2012 inductees to the CQ Contest Hall of Fame are:

• Don Chesser, W4KVX (SK) — Chesser founded and edited DX Magazine from 1957-1964. A pioneering DXer and DXpeditioner in the 1950s and 1960s, he was part of the team that first put 4U1ITU on the air from International Telecommunication Union headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland in 1962. Chesser also served as CQ’s DX Editor from 1957-58. He passed away in 1985.
• Carl Smith, N4AA — Currently the Editor and Publisher of DX Magazine, as well as CQ’s current DX Editor, Smith is following in Chesser’s footsteps a half-century later. He also edits the weekly QRZ DX newsletter and, for the past 15 years, has compiled the annual “Most Wanted” survey of DX entities needed by hams around the world. Smith is also a leading force behind the creation of the Southern Appalachian Radio Museum and has been a long-time Elmer, mentoring many new radio amateurs in the art of DXing.
• Glenn Johnson, W0GJ — A leading DXpeditioner (in addition to his full-time job as an orthopedic surgeon), Johnson has been part of more than two dozen DXpeditions over about as many years. He has been leader or co-leader of many of these trips, most of which have been to locations high on DX Magazine’s “Most Wanted: list. In 2000, Johnson was personally responsible for re-introducing Amateur Radio to Bhutan, and has been honored by that country’s king as the only non-Bhutanese to hold the “native” call sign of A51B. He is also vice president of the Northern California DX Foundation (NCDXF), the leading organization providing financial support to DXpeditions to rare locations.

This year marks the 26th anniversary of the CQ Contest Hall of Fame and the 11th anniversary of the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame. The CQ DX Hall of Fame celebrates its 45th year in honoring the world’s top DXers. Formal inductions to the CQ Contest and DX Halls of Fame are scheduled to take place during the 2012 Dayton Hamvention®.

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• VP2MSR – Montserrat
  [ June 30, 2012 to July 9, 2012. ] Gordon G3USR will be active from Montserrat on all HF bands (particularly 12 and 10m) between June 30 – July 9, 2012.

  VP2MSR also QRV on 6m with attention to any EU openings.

  Note that M0AEP will also be active simultaneously as VP2MDD.

• P29 – IOTA expedition
  [ October 1, 2012 to October 21, 2012. ] Derek G3KHZ informs that he and Hans SM6CVX are planning another IOTA expedition to Papua New Guinea for three weeks in October.

  Islands visited will be:

  St Matthias (OC-103)
  Tabar (OC-099)
  Lihir (OC-069)

  It’s possible Hans may journey to another island after the main activity.

  An opportunity may exist for an extra operator (contact G3KHZ).

• DX World Guide
  CQ Communications, Inc., today announced the publication of the third edition of the DX World Guide, by Franz Lagner, DJ9ZB. This 384-page DX’ers guidebook is the first edition using color throughout and the first to be entirely in English.

  The book includes entries for well over 300 DX “entities”. Information includes geographical information about each country, [...]

• New Product – Yaesu FTDX3000
  Full size image.
  Technical details in PDF file.

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1. Comunicaciones.
2. Medio ambiente.
3. Documentación de la zona.

schmieder@cordell.org

73´s, Luis
EA1CS

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Ayer por la tarde/noche la banda de 6m estaba muy animada, eran varias las estaciones EU que reportaban estaciones de Sudamerica, principalmente CX y LU. Yo de momento me tenia que conformar con escuchar a los de este lado del charco llamando. Pero ya pasadas las 9,30 de la noche empecé a escuchar muy bajito a Bruce ZD7VC . Poco a poco su señal mejoro, y le llame haciendo un rápido QSO como es normal en esta banda. Para mi era un “new one” en 6m.

Cuando ya me disponia a apagar para acudir a la reunión semanal del Radioclub, escuche una estación con una señal realmente fuerte, era Javier LU5FF llegando por momentos con S7 por Huesca. Hicimos el QSO y aun tuve tiempo de recorrer la frecuencia encontrandome a CE2/VE7SV llamando en cw. Tambien pude contactar con él, era la segunda vez que hacia Chile en esta banda.

Ya por lo noche, cuando regresé del radioclub casi a las 2 de la mañana, encendi los equipos por si habia algo interesante y me encontre con nuestros compañeros EA de la expedición a Macau XX9E llamando en 20m, y por fortuna solicitando “only EU”. En dos o tres llamadas pude hacer el QSO, la verdad es que no escuche un excesivo pileup, es posible que ya fuera tarde para el resto de EU.

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1. Comunicaciones.
2. Medio ambiente.
3. Documentación de la zona.

schmieder@cordell.org

73´s, Luis
EA1CS

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“Estamos muy orgullosos de haber llevado 7O6T hasta el final y con gran éxito. A medida que finalice la comprobación de nuestro registro de Qso, celebramos con cada uno de vosotros los 162.029 contactos. Cada uno de los miembros de nuestro equipo logró personal y para el equipo mucho éxito, esto incluye el trabajo, poco descanso y de 8 a 12 horas de operación diarias, durmiendo en elgunos casos 4 horas, logrando así estar siempre en el aire. Nadie se quejó, por todo ello estamos muy orgullosos por los esfuerzos”.

En Dx World existe un amplio resumen de lo que fue 7O6T, que lo disfrutéis. ( click)

73´s, Luis
EA1CS

Article source: http://ea1cs.blogspot.com/2012/05/7o6t-gracias.html

Para celebrar los 50 años de la independencia de la antigua colonia portuguesa (CR8 en 1.937) de Goa estará activa hasta el 31 de mayo 2012, AU50GOA, de 10 a 40mts en Cw, Ssb y Psk.

Qsl vía directa a VU2SMS

73´s, Luis
EA1CS

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UT5UDX will be active from Jamaica 20-30 May 2012 as 6Y/UT5UDX
He will be active in CQ WW WPX CW Contest 26-27 May 2012 as 6Y3W in SOAB Category
QSL via RA4LW

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RK0SA , RZ0SB , UA0SGY , UA0SOX , UB0SBA will be active from National Park Hovsgol ( Khovsgul Nuur) , Mongolia 18-20 May 2012 as JT7WFF
They will be active on HF Bands
QSL via RZ0SB

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• Heard Island Dxpedition – 2014
  After 5 months of planning, Cordell Expeditions is pleased to announce a DXpedition to Heard Island, Territory of Australia, in early 2014. We have assembled a core team, arranged for the vessel, and are awaiting the landing permit and radio callsign.
  Initial team members, collaborating organizations, and other resources will be announced in the near future. [...]
• 7O6T – Announcement
  7O6T – Socotra Island DX-pedition
  April 30 thru May 15, 2012
  By Dmitry (RA9USU; Leader), Igor (RA3AUU; Co-Leader) and David (K3LP; Co- Leader)
  Dated: May 17, 2012
  It gives us great pleasure to bring the 7O6T – Socotra Island DXpedition to a successful finish on May 15, 2012, at 2100 GMT. As we finalize the checking of our Club [...]
• 6Y3W & 6Y/UT5UDX – Jamaica
  [ May 20, 2012 to May 30, 2012. ] Sergey UT5UDX plans activity from Jamaica as 6Y3W during the CQ WPX CW contest (SOAB).

  Before and after the contest look for him as 6Y/UT5UDX.

  QRV May 20-30, 2012.

  QSL via RA4LW.

• JT7WFF – Mongolia
  [ May 18, 2012 to May 20, 2012. ]

  Operators RK0SA, RZ0SB, UA0SGY, UA0SOX and UB0SBA plan to be active from the Khövsgöl Nuur National Park, Mongolia between May 18-20, 2012.

  QRV as JT7WFF, look for them on HF.

  QSL via RZ0SB

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