Colorado 14er Event 2018

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Amateur Radio operators from around Colorado will be climbing many of Colorado’s 14,000-foot mountains and Summits On The Air(SOTA) peaks to set up amateur radio stations in an effort to communicate with other radio amateurs across the state and around the world. 

Radio operators who plan to activate a summit should post their intent on the ham14er Yahoo Group. 

Colorado 14er Frequencies

Activity can occur on any amateur band including HF and VHF. The 2m fm band plan uses a “primary frequency and move up” approach. The 2m fm primary frequency is 147.42 MHz.  At the beginning of the event, operators should try calling on 147.42 MHz. As activity increases on that frequency, move on up the band using the 30 kHz steps. Don’t just hang out on 147.42 MHz…move up! The next standard simplex frequency up from 147.42 MHz is 147.45 MHz, followed by 147.48 and 147.51 MHz.

More information - http://www.ham14er.org

ham14er Yahoo Group - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ham14er/ 

FIFA World Cup 2018 Special Event Station from Kosovo

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Members of the Kosovo Amateur Radio Society (SHARK) will activate the special callsign, Z60FIFA, for the 2018 FIFA World Cup event between until the end of the tournament on July 15th.

Under Z60FIFA on QRZ.com, you will also find details/rules for various special "FOOTBALL 2018 Awards" (RADIO MARATHON, World, Participant, Russia and Cities). There will be many special callsigns for each award. Some callsigns with the prefixes R18, RC18 and RU18, and some suffixes ending FWC and FIFA.

There are at least 40 special stations from country-member of FIFA, and at least 25 special Russian stations, each of which symbolizes the team participant of the final tournament of the World Cup 2018. Also, there are 11 special Russian stations, each symbolizing one of 11 cities where the matches of the World Cup will take place as well as 2 special stations of the Organizing Committee RU18WC and R18REF.

200 Sign up for ILLW

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The 200th entry was received from Wales, intending toactivate the East Usk lighthouse which was built in 1893 on the East side of the river USK. 

Margaret’s callsign will be for the event will be GB4EUL.

Other stations of interest for the 2018 Interntional Lighhouse and Lighship Weekend include

  • Punta Maya Lighthouse, CU0005, in Cuba, T45FM,
  • Faro de Progresso de Castro lighthouse in Mexico using the call 6E3A. This is a new lighthouse for the event with our number MX0010,
  • Santiao Chiao lighthouse in Taiwan, callsign BV1EJ, ILLW TW0003,

A rare lighthouse from Maine, USA with the cute title “Ladies Delight” is a new addition to this years event. (LLW number US0227)

2018 Interntional Lighhouse and Lighship Weekend - https://illw.net