The SOTA 2020 'Flavours' Challenge

The SOTA 2020 'Flavours' Challenge

A series of themed challenges will take place in 2020, as part of the SOTA - Summits On The Air awards programme.

The idea is to encourage SOTA activity on bands and modes that are popular in amateur radio generally, but somewhat under-represented in SOTA.

The SOTA 'Flavours' Challenge 2020

  • 1st - 7th January 2020: LF - 160m & 80m

  • 1st - 7th February 2020: Datamodes

  • 1st - 7th March 2020: Digital voice

  • 1st - 7th April 2020: LF - 160m & 80m

  • 1st - 7th May 2020: Datamodes

  • 1st - 7th June 2020: 12m, 10m & 6m

  • 1st - 7th July 2020: 70cm

  • 1st - 7th August 2020: 17m

  • 1st - 7th September 2020: Datamodes

  • 1st - 7th October 2020: Digital voice

  • 1st - 7th November 2020: LF - 160m & 80m

  • 1st - 7th December 2020: 12m, 10m & 6m

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MFJ Joins Corporate Prize Donor List for HomeBrew Heroes Award

The list of corporate prize donors is growing for the Homebrew Heroes Awards program. MFJ Enterprises of Starkville MS has agreed to donate a key prize for the workbench of the Hero in 2019. “We owe our corporate success to the practice of homebrew electronics in amateur radio,” said MFJ Founder and President Martin F. Jue. “MFJ is delighted to support this annual award. We sell a high volume of parts to the homebrew and maker community. It’s in our business interests to encourage and support hams and other enthusiasts to design and build things that contribute to this space in the hobby. And, it’s just good business to encourage it, too!” Martin added.

We owe our corporate success to the practice of homebrew electronics in amateur radio.
— MFJ Founder and President Martin F. Jue

MFJ has identified the popular HF/VHF Two-Port Graphic Antenna Analyzer sold as product number MFJ-225. The 225 uses free downloadable software to access the vector analyzer through a PC. Richard Stubbs, Customer Services Manager at MFJ says that “It has all the basic analyzer functions plus a host of advanced features like a built-in LCD graphics screen, two-port VNA measurement, PC-Interface using IG-miniVNA freeware, precise DDS frequency control, and is self-calibrating.” Mike Enis, Manager at MFJ, says that the MFJ-225 should enhance most every workbench that uses RF circuits, especially through the S-parameters that the device measures, all without a lot of computations required without a two-port vector device.

Homebrew Heroes Award - http://homebrewheroes.org/