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PostHeaderIcon CQ WW Rules Out One Single Operator Category

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
A day after a radio-sport.net story and hours after a stinging public rebuke by a six time CQ WW contest winner, the CQ WW Contest Committee announced it would not combine the Single Operator and Single Operator Assisted categories because of concerns over the ability to detect cheating. "We continue to totally support SO and SOA being separate," said CQ WW Director Bob Cox K3EST.
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PostHeaderIcon HI3TEJ Still # 1 In radio-sport.net World Standings

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
Along with qualifying for the World Radiosport Team Championships, Teddy Jiminez HI3TEJ has again kept himself at the top of the latest radio-sport.net World Single Operator Standings. Chasing Jiminez in second is Yuri Kurinyi UA9AM. Check out the latest standings and see if you've made it into the Single Operator World 100!
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PostHeaderIcon CQ WW Contest Committee Looks At One Single Operator Category

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
Not long after sending three CQ WW Contest Committee members to check for cheating among top competitiors in the 2009 CQ WW CW Contest, that same committee is now having an internal debate on the future of the Assisted category, and whether all single operators should just compete against each other, even if they are using cluster spots or CW Skimmer.
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PostHeaderIcon YASME Foundation gives Excellence Award to radio-sport.net

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
The amateur radio based YASME foundation has honored the radio-sport.net website for its groundbreaking coverage of ham radio contesting by awarding this site's creator with a YASME Excellence Award for 2009. The list of award winners includes some other very familiar names in contesting as well.
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PostHeaderIcon High Bands Still Sluggish For NAQP CW; SSB Up Next

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
Despite a flurry of sunspots so far in 2010, it was the same ole story for the North American QSO Party's first contest of this year, as band openings were again limited on 10 and 15 meters, while the action was heated on 80 and 160. The NAQP CW leader is Chris Hurlbut KL9A, who is on course for a repeat January win thanks to a big score from the NK7U station in Oregon.
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PostHeaderIcon Recent Solar Activity Gives Hope For HF Boost In 2010

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
Even after the second worst year in the Space Age in terms of sunspot numbers, there are encouraging signs for ham radio contesters when it comes to sunspots and better propagation on the HF contest bands. Except for Christmas, sunspots have been visible every day since December 9 and the first few days of the New Year.
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PostHeaderIcon North American QSO Party Looks For High Band Boost

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
After starting off the year with the ARRL RTTY Roundup, hams in North America get to test their CW skills this weekend in the North American QSO Party, one of many contests that has seen reduced scores on the high bands in recent years because of lackluster solar conditions.
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PostHeaderIcon New Year Kicks Off With ARRL RTTY Roundup

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
The theme of the last few ARRL RTTY Roundup contests has been four straight wins for Ed Muns W0YK and lackluster propagation limiting action on the high bands for RTTY contesters worldwide. But this year's band conditions have a chance to be a little different thanks to recent action on the sun.
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PostHeaderIcon RD3AF (EF8M) Tops CQ WW CW Single Op Claimed Scores

PostDateIconSaturday, 23 January 2010 08:02 | PDF | Print | E-mail
The top Single Operator claimed scores all seem to be out in the 2009 CQ WW CW Contest, with Valery Komarov RD3AF on top for the second straight year after an 11.8 million point effort from EF8M in the Canary Islands. In second is Andy Blank N2NT, who had 11.2 million from V47NT. Last year Komarov also had the highest score, but he was disqualified. Check out the latest from radio-sport.net
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Ham Helps Out in Riverside County Desert Rescue
On the afternoon of Saturday, January 16, Christopher Walsh, KJ6BBS, of Irvine, California, was listening to radio traffic on 446.760 MHz, a channel used by the Los Angeles area-based Pocket Auto-Patch Association (PAPA) system -- an Amateur Radio network of 22 interlinked analog and digital D-STAR repeaters that provides extensive coverage of the Southern California region and beyond -- when he heard an emergency radio call break from Jose Hernandez, KI6PCK, of Thousand Oaks, California, reporting an injured male who had broken some ribs from an ATV-type accident.
CN2R Leadsd CQ 160 CW; K1LZ Aims At USA Multi Record
Two years after winning the CQ 160 CW Contest from his Moroccan QTH, Jim Sullivan W7EJ seems headed for another Single Operator High Power victory, as he owns an over half million point lead over defending champ Valery Komarov RD3AF. Meanwhile in the US, Team K1LZ overcame big time weather troubles to post a record breaking Multi-Op score.
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DX Resources/DX Peditions/2010 DXpeditions
The HARAOA Group have orginized to go to Broughton Island(OC-212) from the 5th until the 7th February 2010.


History This Week
A look back at events that made history this week - compiled by the Summerland Amateur Radio Club of Lismore, NSW
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CN2R Leadsd CQ 160 CW; K1LZ Aims At USA Multi Record
Two years after winning the CQ 160 CW Contest from his Moroccan QTH, Jim Sullivan W7EJ seems headed for another Single Operator High Power victory, as he owns an over half million point lead over defending champ Valery Komarov RD3AF. Meanwhile in the US, Team K1LZ overcame big time weather troubles to post a record breaking Multi-Op score.
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Rising Tide of Logs Lifts IOTA Contest
The last weekend in July means that it's time for Island hunters to fill the airwaves, as the 2009 Islands on the Air Contest arrives. Limited propagation conditions in recent years have not hurt, as the number of logs submitted in 2007 and 2008 were close to 2000 each year, well above the previous record of 1500.
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