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Spring 2021
Volume 11, Issue 1
The 2021 Maine
Virtual Hamfest
Thanks to the efforts of Joe
Grace W1SK and Cory Golob KU1U, who put in countless hours to make it a
reality, hams around the state, and elsewhere, gathered for the Maine
Virtual Hamfest, on Saturday, March 6th... Read
Full Story
A Closer Look at the
Maine Packet Network
SCARBOROUGH, ME – During our
March 11th monthly meeting, Brad Brown KC1JMH, gave a presentation on
the Maine Packet Network and demonstrated how to connect to a node,
check and send messages, and some of the terminal commands needed to
navigate it... Read
Full Story
11th Annual Maine 2
Meter FM Simplex Challenge is Saturday, April 3rd!
Please join us Saturday, April
3rd, from 12PM-4PM for the 11th Annual Maine 2 Meter FM Simplex
Challenge...
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Full Story
FCC Not Collecting
$35 Application Fees Just Yet
According to a recent ARRL News
item, published March 22nd, the new $35 amateur radio license
application fee will NOT become effective on April 19th, as originally
reported... Read
Full Story
2020 Maine 2 Meter FM
Simplex Challenge Results
Congratulations to the 2020 2 Meter FM Simplex Challenge winners! Bill
Richardson NG1P, from Topsham, Maine, who made 67 QSOs, in 26 different
towns, for a total of 1,742 points, took the overall win...
Read
Full Story
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Upcoming Meetings /
Events
4/3/2021 - Maine 2 Meter FM Simplex
Challenge - 12pm - 4pm
4/8/2021 - Monthly Meeting - 7pm at 200 U.S. Rt. 1, Suite
210, Scarborough, ME & via Free Conference Call
4/15/2021 - Meeting on the Air - 7pm on 147.090 repeater
4/22/2021 - ECT Training Net - 7pm on the 147.090 repeater
5/13/2021 - Monthly Meeting - 7pm at 200 U.S. Rt. 1, Suite
210, Scarborough, ME & via Free Conference Call
5/20/2021 - Meeting on the Air - 7pm on 147.090 repeater
5/27/2021 - ECT Training Net - 7pm on the 147.090 repeater
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QSL Corner
Above
is a QSL for a report by Tim Watson KB1HNZ on 648 kHz, from 0015-0045
UTC, on 7 July 2020. Radio Caroline, which now operates legally under a
Community Radio licence, was famous for operating as an off-shore
pirate radio station, broadcasting pop music all day in a time when the
BBC only played pop music for one hour a day. Ironically, it's current
frequency, 648 kHz, was once used by the BBC World Service to relay
broadcasts to Eastern Europe.
DX News
Our
last issue left off just prior to the Holiday season, where in a normal
year, there'd be several announced DXpeditions throughout the winter
months. Obviously, many of those plans were postponed due to the
ongoing pandemic, but there were still a few DXpeditions,
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.
In
the weeks ahead we look forward to a Japanese DXpedition to Samoa,
using call sign 5W7X, that is scheduled to begin March 5th, (with no
end date announced yet), WW6RG will operate mostly 20m SSB from the
Marshall Islands (KH9), on April 1st, PZ5JW will be QRV for the CQMM DX
contest, from Surinam, on April 17-18th, and ON4RU will operate as
FM/OQ3R from Martinique, from May 23-June 5th (QRV for the WPX CW
Contest.
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,
Scarborough, ME 04074 | www.mainehamradio.com
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