Santa Claus Land active (Special Event - this one for
the kids!)
Once again OH9SCL will be active from Santa Claus
Land (SCL) in the Arctic Circle, during the month
of December.
Activity will be on 160-10 meters using CW, SSB and
the Digital modes. There has been plenty of activity
over the past week on 40/20/30 meters, some SSB, RTTY
and PSK31.
QSL via OH9UV
This week in History
1901 Marconi received the first transatlantic
communication, letter 'S'.
1961 The first amateur satellite, OSCAR I was launched.
New Worked All States Award
The ARRL has introduced a new award called the "Triple
Play Worked All States Award". This award is unusual in
that it requires confirmed contacts with each of the 50
states in the USA using three modes for each state -
CW, phone and digital. All 150 contacts must be made on
or after 1st January 2009 and must be confirmed via
Logbook of the World. All bands - with the exception of
60 meters - may be used. Further details of this and
other ARRL awards are available on www.arrl.org/awards
DXCC End of year approaching
In order to appear in the printed 'Annual and Honour
Roll' listings your submission must be postmarked on or
by Wednesday, December 31, 2008.
The DXCC Honour Roll list is scheduled for publication
in August 2009 QST. For the 2008 calendar year the
minimum requirement to appear in the Honour Roll list
is 329 current entities. The Top of the Honour Roll
total is 338 for this period. Remember, deleted
entities do not count towards the Honour Roll.
Direct comments or questions to dxcc /@/ arrl.org ....
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