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24 hour snap shot.
14 February 2025 | by
I put my WSPR transmitter to work over the past 24 hours to get an idea of the conditions of the bands before the ARRL CW DX contest. The Kp index was anywhere from 3-4, not the greatest but it's something we have no control over. In this contest, North American stations can only contact DX stations. Below is a 24-hour breakdown of the activity on the bands that I can operate on (10m-40m) and also the Kp index over the past 24 hours as well. I did check the solar weather and it looks as if things are going to calm down slightly over the weekend. In a nutshell, 20 and 40m will be my go-to bands with sprinkles of 10 and 15m.
Mike Weir, VE9KK, is a regular contributor to AmateurRadio.com and writes from New Brunswick, Canada. Contact him at [email protected].
LHS Episode #570: RepeaterSTART Deep Dive
Hello and welcome to the 570th installment of Linux in the Ham Shack. In this episode, we interview guest Luke Bryan, KJ7BKH, about his RepeaterSTART project. The computer and mobile app is for locating and getting information and topo data about VHF and UHF repeaters around the globe. Topics include the code base, installation, usage, contributing to the project and more. Thanks for listening and have a great week.
73 de The LHS Crew
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ICQPodcast Episode 449 – A Simple Way to Receive QO-100
In this episode, we join Martin Butler M1MRB, Chris Howard (M0TCH), Martin Rothwell (M0SGL), Bill Barnes (WC3B) and Leslie Butterfields (G0CIB) to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin Butler (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and the episode's feature is A Simple Way to Receive QO-100
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Ham College episode 121 is now available for download.
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Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 368
US Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act re-introduced
Legislation would require HOAs to accommodate Amateur Radio operators by allowing use of outdoor antennas.
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In January alone, more than 120 Starlinks deorbited, creating a shower of fireballs.
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OSU Amateur Radio Club embraces tradition while in new era of communication
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Special Event Station PA80OV
Radio Club Limburg
announces
Special Event Station
PA80OV
Next week, members of Radio Club Limburg (https://rclb.nl) in the North Limburg region of The Netherlands, will activate:
PA80OV is a special event station to commemorate Operation Veritable, celebrating 80 years of freedom. Operation Veritable, namesake of the station, and the successor of Operation Market Garden, was the northern part of an Allied pincer movement in the Second World War.
We are back in 2025 for the third consecutive time with this special event station; having added another 5 years to our callsign.
Members of Radio Club Limburg will activate the callsign PA80OV from February 13 to 28, 2025, to work as many amateur radio operators across the world as possible. If you're in the area, you can visit our station in the old town hall in the city of Gennep, The Netherlands between February14 and 16.
Whether you are an amateur radio operator, hoping to contact a new country, a new callsign, or you're a casual visitor, you're welcome to our website:
https://rclb.nl/pa80ov
We hope to hear and work you.
On behalf of the PA80OV team.
Jan, PA2P
https://rclb.nl/pa80ov
Operation Manna 80
A very special, special event station
SARC has been asked to participate in a large-scale special event late in April commemorating the relief efforts of the winter of 1944-45 to drop tons of food to the starving population of NW Holland. It is well described at: Operation Manna @ 80 and in the video https://youtu.be/0PwhYFdzY_Q. Amateur stations from the drop zones in Holland, air force bases in Britain, plus the Allied forces that provided aircraft and pilots, including the UK, Canada, The US, Poland and Australia will be represented by special event stations in those countries.
Three UK Teams, one at the International Bomber Command Centre, another at former RAF Binbrook (an Operation Manna Airfield in the UK) and another at the 100th Bomb Group Museum Thorpe Abbots representing the US operation Chowhound from a former Chowhound airfield.
The national Radio Scouting team (Plusscouts PA3EFR/J) will be operating from an Operation Manna drop zone near The Hague, The Netherlands. Read on for further details on this team and their radio station location at The Team in the Netherlands – Operation Manna @ 80
The stations will be active April 25-27 (Friday through Sunday) using variations of the xx80MAN callsign. Here in Canada, we will be applying for VE80MAN.
Children and youth activities will also be included and there will be activity on HF, DMR and VHF
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