South African Radio League Celebrates 90 years

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From 1 January 2015, the special call sign ZS90SARL will be celebrating the 90th anniversary of the South African Radio League.

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The South African Radio Relay League was formed in May 1925.

The name was later changed to the South African Radio League.

From January until the culminations of the celebration at the annual Convention in Bloemfontein in April 2015, Amateur Radio Today will transmit a weekly highlighting the amazing events of the past 90 years.

In addition, the South African Radio League has been given a special call sign by ICASA to celebrate the anniversary. The call sign is ZS90SARL.

It is available to all affiliated clubs on a rotation bases for period on one week (Monday to Sunday). Applications for use of the call sign will be open from Monday and should be sent by email to SARL90@sarl.org.za. Rassie Erasmus, ZS1YT, will coordinate the allocation and from time to time, a schedule will be published on the South African Radio League web.

Clubs applying for the use of the call sign must clearly indicate times and frequency of operation. Logs must be kept electronically, preferably in the N1MM format and forwarded at the end of the week to contest@sarl.org.za for uploading to Logbook of the World.

Special QSL card are being designed and soon be available.


EI1A - EI8GQB 20th radio activity from Ireland

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Olivier ON4EI, is back to Ireland from 18th to 30th October 2014 to celebrate its 20th radio operation from Ireland where he will operate EI8GQB and EI1A during the CQ WW DX SSB contest.

In 2013 and 2014 Olivier scored with EI1A, tops Europe score in CQ WW WPX, IARU HF and IOTA contests in Low Power Single Op SSB category using its temporary field day style antenna park / SO2R station using with green energy.

  • 18m high top loaded vertical monopole for 160-80m-40m bands + 32 radials.
  • Inverted V dipole for 160-80m-40m bands.
  • 3 elements East-West two-direction inverted V beam for 40m band.
  • 200m long beverage RX antenna East-West directional.
  • 1 x Spiderbeam antennas for 20/15/10m bands.
  • 1 x Mosley TA33Jr for 20/15/10m bands.
  • Rigs are Elecraft K3+P3 & Kenwood TS2000 100W.
  • 500Ah battery bank + 180W solar panel and 400W wind generator.

You can follow this one man expedition on http://www.qrz.com/db/EI8GQB or meet him on the air.