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Son Chris and grandson Edward outside their home.

Although I shall probably go on 472kHz WSPR shortly, today has been a day largely without radio: we went on a train day return to Canterbury to see our son Chris and family. We have done this now 3 times and get about 4 hours with them. It was good.

See http://hamspots.net/3bjt/

A little while back someone introduced me to Hamspots which is a sort of  filtered spotting system for digital modes. You can chose how many bands to monitor and the modes, Very useful to see JT65 and JT9-1 activity on, say, 20, 10 and 6m.

Phil Karn, KA9Q is an Internet pioneer with his name on at least six RFC‘s. Best known in the world of amateur radio for his KA9Q NOS as well as numerous AMSAT satellite communications projects.

Retired from Qualcomm, Karn seems to be staying busy with other interesting projects — like this one.

Phil Karn on the reboot of the 1978 International Sun/Earth Explorer-3 (ISEE-3)/ (International Cometary Explorer) from InterWorking Labs on Vimeo.

Filed under: Ham Radio Tagged: amsat, ka9q, satellite, space, video

Just a quick reminder that next weekend is the August Bank Holiday weekend and Practical Wireless are encouraging VHF/UHF operators to operate from Summits on the Air on the VHF bands. It’s not a contest, more an excuse to get out and enjoy some portable radio in some great scenery!

Richard G3CWI at SOTABeams has very kindly sponsored some prizes.

I’m planning to be out during the weekend on one or more of our local summits (there aren’t many in Oxfordshire!) and will be listening out for other SOTA activity.

Just a quick reminder that next weekend is the August Bank Holiday weekend and Practical Wireless are encouraging VHF/UHF operators to operate from Summits on the Air on the VHF bands. It’s not a contest, more an excuse to get out and enjoy some portable radio in some great scenery!

Richard G3CWI at SOTABeams has very kindly sponsored some prizes.

I’m planning to be out during the weekend on one or more of our local summits (there aren’t many in Oxfordshire!) and will be listening out for other SOTA activity.

Daniel DO7FOX and Gregor DO5SSB have released a premium version of their QRZCQ callsign database. Attached below is the press release they sent.

If you’ve tried it out, I’d like to hear your thoughts. Will you be switching to it or are you happy with what you have now?

We are happy to tell you, that the QRZCQ Premium is now available!

Features:	Standard	Premium
Supporting our work and effort	NO	YES
Unlimited own callsigns	YES	YES
Add unlimited amount of your additional callsigns, for example portable, mobile, maritim mobile, qrp, foreign countries, dxpedition, etc.
Managed callsigns	YES	YES
Manage club callsigns or those of your friends, dxpeditions, clubs, etc.
DX Cluster	YES	YES
Incredible DX Cluster, with advanced filtering and telnet access
Propagation	YES	YES
Resources	YES	YES
Email [callsign]@qrzcq.com	YES	YES
Standard use	YES	YES
Full featured online log	NO	YES
Our awesome full featured online log, click here for more info and here for a tour. You have never seen an online log like this one!
XML API access	NO	YES
XML API access for automated lookup, curently we are supported by UcxLog, Winlog32, Logger32 and MacLoggerDX, more pending
Visitors counter	NO	YES
Permanent visitor flag counters down on your page, grouped by country
Sell on Swapmeet	NO	YES
Sell your stuff on the swapmeet, VERIFIED status additionally required
DX notifications	NO	YES
Email notifications when new ones are on air, accesible from the online log
More images on your page	NO	YES
Additional 12 images on your page
Write articles on page	NO	YES
Write news on page	NO	YES
More extended search	NO	YES
Search the entire database and all archives
Manage dates in calendar	NO	YES
Create events, hamfests, contests etc. in calendar
Add videos with description	NO	YES
Extended propagation	NO	YES
Extended use	NO	YES

There is already a widely compatible XML API. This XML API serves for the purpose of looking up call data for logbook programs. We’d like to invite all developers to implement the API in their code. The technical documentation is available at the XML API documentation page. If you have any futher quesions contact us at [email protected].

Some sizes and numbers of the site:

– Calls in database: 3.037.674
– Page views: 30.153.394
– Call views: 18.161.873
– Logbook QSOs: 27.899.334
– All time QSOs processed: 293.502.458
– Monthly visits: 1.400.000
– Video views: 240.834
– Users with picture: 21.748
– DX-Cluster spots via web interface: 151.324
– Max users on DX-Cluster via web interface: 176
– XML lookups: 404.215
– DX-Cluster spots in database: 12.613.267

We are about 75.600 users now and still growing fast! There is no advertising, no blink blink, no junk. Only ham radio put in a nutshell. A big THANK YOU to everyone who made our progress possible! Without your support, trust and goodwill throughout the years, QRZCQ would not be the same.

Visit us at QRZCQ.com, we look forward to see you there!

73 de Gregor, DO5SSB and Daniel, DO7FOX

I have had this radio for about three months now. I have not found out how to program any of the memory channels.  If anyone learned the secret please post a comment here.