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I really like the TS830S and it is one of my favorite radios. Somehow I lost drive on the band. I took it to Ron Crisp WB4VZN in Union SC ...

ARLP032 Propagation de NW7US This week's bulletin was written by Tomas Hood, NW7US. Tomas is filling in for your regular reporter Tad C...

SUNSET PLANET SHOW: When the sun goes down tonight, step outside and look west. Venus, Mars, Satu...

The following geomagnetic storms damaged the electrical power grid (summarized by James Marusek from a paper published in 2007 (http://www.l...

SOLAR BLAST JUST MISSES EARTH: On Saturday, August 7th, magnetic fields around sunspot 1093 erupted. NASA spacecraft and many amateur astro...

The FCC issued a new 2x1 call sign - this was after several attempts. 2x1 and 1x2 call signs in Region 4 are really hard to get. So many fo...

40 meters offerred the opportunity for 4 more states but I was only able to get 2. K7QHU - Steve in Idaho and KB9AIT - Gary in Wisconsin Thi...

Got two more hard states. Jay W9JAY/M is mobile in North Dakota and KE8UN/QRP was operating a QRP station in West Virginia and he was surpr...

Picked Up a few more states tonight: W1ZQ in New Hampshire on the 3905 SSB net on 75m. Also K14DFS in Georgia - also on the 3905 SSB Net o...

I was listening into another Hawaii station KH7DX waiting for an opportunity to make a contact after his other contacts, and then Russ darli...

There are only about a few states remaining. Yesterday was a good evening in that I was able to get 3 relatively hard states to get ARKANSA...

Applications are in for a 1x2 and 2x1 vanity call. KD4Q is the first one - my chance for this one is 1 in 4. The second one is W4DX which p...