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Our the first SOTA this year – OK/ST084 Ladvi

After days of cold weather and rain we have sunny weekend so we decided to go to a trip best online casino australia fast payouts. A day before, I charged my accumulator and prepared all necessary equipment. Next day, on Saturday sunny afternoon I put it into rucksack and we were ready to go.

Ham Among Americans Killed in Afghan Attack

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 […]

JARL Emergency Frequencies

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 […]

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FOC QSO Party – 23 October 2010

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 […]

Turkey Island Giresun AS-154 expedition

Group of OK radioamateurs Pavel TA2ZAF (OK1MU), Dan OK1HRA and Honza OK2ZAW are going to activate Turkey Island Giresun AS-154 in the Black Sea between 14.10. and 18.10.2010. Pavel TA2ZAF applied last chance for activation this year and started to organize this expediton by high speed and big effort only few weegs ago. QSL via […]

SOTA OK/ST-087 – Na Beckove

Sunday’s sunny afternoon with my father at OK/ST-087. My rig was FT-817+Z100 autotuner from LDG, antenna was 10m of wire on a tree. I made 19 QSO on 40, 6 and 2m band. As you can see on photos, somebody made spoil ground from this SOTA hill (or maybe somebody made SOTA from spoil ground […]

The Bill Windle QSO Party – 12th June, 2010

FOC is pleased to present the Bill Windle 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 Bill Windle QSO Party is not a contest but an activity day in memory of Bill Windle, a past Chairman of FOC […]