The W-HQ-S Award is managed by QTC (the Polish Amateur Radio Magazine) with 10 or more contacts with different HQ stations during the IARU HF Championship being required for the award

Some deals are too good to be true.. or legal. That’s the story with some rather inexpensive HT's being sold on-line

Effective July 1, 2009, Doug Mercer, VO1DTM, has assumed the post of Radio Amateurs of Canada Vice President for Field Services (VPFS)

The NZ4O Daily LF/MF/HF/6M Frequency Radiowave Propagation Forecast #2009-22 has been published on Friday 07/03/2009

Belarus has gained access to the extended 40m band

Alberta Section has a new Section Manager in the person of Garry Jacobs, VE6CIA

The Eighth IARU Region 3 ARDF Championships, originally scheduled for 29 October to 3 November 2009 near Bangkok, Thailand, have been cancelled due to concerns for the safety and convenience of participants

Fred Johnson, ZL2AMJ, has won The New Zealand Institute of Physics Rutherford Trophy for 2008 for his work in developing the radio wave demonstration kits for schools

The Nifty E-Z Guide to D-Star Operation covers every aspect of D-Star operation, from the most basic, to the more advanced aspects of this emerging digital voice mode

Dundee Amateur Radio Club was recently awarded a grant of nearly £3,000 by the National Lottery under the Awards for all Scheme

DX Resources/DX PeditionsWayne Rogers - W5KDJ, will be QRV from Antananarivo July 4-17, 2009 on all bands 6 - 160m. Modes: CW & RTTY

Contesting/RulesWLOTA Lighthouses Contest

This week, Surfin' looks at Digital Amateur Television again and finds the new home of WB4APR.

It was a perfect Field Day weekend from where I stood. The weather was warm, skies clear, the space weather was calm and there was enough propagation to make a domestic contest interesting. I had no plans, so on Saturday I went to the ARRL Field Day Station Locator to find a Field Day site. The one I landed at -- W7AUX -- listed a contact number, a cell phone at the site. I inquired if they needed a CW op, was told, "We could use any operators," so I drove up to the site north of Seattle. I had a lot of fun on 20 meter CW. Sporadic-E even helped out, and the 6 meter station made a number of contacts with other Field Day stations in the Western US.

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Baiting Hollow Scout Camp, Calverton, NY on Friday, 3rd of July

Sky Sheppey 2009 celebrates 100 years of British Aviation and the part played by The Pioneers of Early Flying and the Armed Services over those years on the Isle of Sheppey. To co-incide with the event, the Medway Raynet Group will be operating a special event station over the weekend

It was a perfect Field Day weekend from where I stood. The weather was warm, skies clear, the space weather was calm, and there was enough propagation to make a domestic contest interesting

The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity

Gerben, PG5M, will be activating three DXCC entities in the Pacific between September 6-27th

The WIA will be reviewing applications which focus on projects and activities to attract new amateurs. Also projects supporting emergency communications and preparedness for emergency communications