"I'll give up CW when I'm dead! MAYBE!" (Rick, KC8AON)
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 […]
I decided to get a new paddle to replace my 20 year old home-made mechanical one that I had had since I started in amateur radio. I had a QSO with my old friend S51M a few months ago and he told me about the P1PAD touch paddle.
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 […]
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!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I really love CW. When I was 11, I got SWL number and started to listen on HF. I was dreaming while listening that nice music and imagined how amazing could be to understand what they are sending.
