   
Holiday
2020
Volume 10, Issue 2
Summits on the Air from Mt. Washington, NH
On
Saturday, July 18th, the WS1SM team ventured to the summit of Mt.
Washington, NH, to activate it for Summits on the Air (SOTA). The
activation of W1/HA-001 ran concurrently with the W1V 10th Anniversary
Special Event, which took place for two weeks during the summer... Read
Full Story
2020 SKYWARN Recognition Day Review
As
was the case with many of this year’s activities, the pandemic decided
to throw a wrench into SKYWARN™ Recognition Day, a 20-plus year old
tradition that was jointly developed by the National Weather Service
and the American Radio Relay League to celebrate... Read
Full Story
A Culture of Connection
Although
most of what we read about in ham radio literature is heavily weighted
toward the technical side of things, it doesn’t paint the whole
picture...
Read
Full Story
2020 ARRL Field Day
Results
SCARBOROUGH,
ME – On the weekend of June 27-28, the WS1SM team participated in their
10th ARRL Field Day from Wassamki Springs Campground, in
Scarborough... Read
Full Story
2020 Maine Simulated Emergency Test (SET)
On
Saturday, October 24th, members of the Wireless Society of Southern
Maine Emergency Communications Team (WSSM-ECT), which meets monthly in
Scarborough, participated in a statewide drill to test their
communications capabilities...
Read
Full Story
2020 ILLW from Owls Head Lighthouse
In
August, the WS1SM team activated Owls Head Lighthouse, in Owls Head,
Maine, for 2020 International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend
(ILLW)... Read
Full Story
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Upcoming Meetings /
Events
1/14/2021 - Monthly Meeting - 7pm via Free Conference Call
1/21/2021 - Meeting on the Air - 7pm on 147.090 repeater
1/28/2021 - ECT Training Net - 7pm on the 147.090
2/11/2021 - Monthly Meeting - 7pm via Free Conference
Call
2/18/2021 - Meeting on the Air - 7pm on 147.090 repeater
2/25/2021 - ECT Training Net - 7pm on the 147.090
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QSL Corner
Above
is a QSL for a report by Tim KB1HNZ on 9395 kHz, from 0130-0155 UTC, on 10 December 2019.
DX News
Our
last issue left off just prior to the ARRL
International DX SSB and CQ WPX contests, which saw several
participants QRV from rare entities. In the weeks that followed,
DXpeditions such as VP8PJ (South Orkney Island), H33K (Panama), 9J2LA
(Zambia), 3B9AN (Rodrigues Island), TU2R (Ivory Coast), and VU4R
(Andaman & Nicobar Islands) filled up the calendar, but with
uncertainties emerging around the COVID-19 pandemic, several of the
planned DXPeditions in the months ahead were either cancelled or
postponed.
Among those affected were the Nara DX
Association's V6J IOTA DXpedition to Murilo Island in the Hall Islands.
Travel restrictions imposed on individuals entering American Samoa as a
result of the coronavirus outbreak caused Swains Island W8S DXpedition
organizers to postpone that DXpedition until later in the year. A
mostly German team, cancelled their planned DXpedition to Djibouti,
which was supposed to take place in early spring. Others include the
JX0X (Jan Mayen) and 3Y0I (Bouvet Island) DXpeditions, and most
recently, the F6KOP team announced the cancellation of their planned 2021 DXpedition to Guinea.
Despite
all the challenges, there are still some DXpeditions taking place,
including YI9WS (Iraq), 5T7OO (Mauritania), and JD1BMH (Ogasawara)
through the end of December, and CP1XRM (Bolivia) from January 9-26, and 8Q7CQ (Maldives) from January 14-29.
For up-to-date news about reported DXPeditions, click here, to read the
latest 425 DX
News Bulletin.
Wireless
Society of Southern Maine | P.O. Box 6833,
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