SX73SC Special Amateur Radio Call

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Special event station SX73SC will be active on 8-10 February for the 73rd anniversary of the Hellenic Army’s Signal Corps. Look for activity on all bands SSB, CW and RTTY; the operation will take place from the Science Center & Technology Museum in Thessaloniki.

QSL via Club Log’s OQRS, LoTW and eQSL.

ARISS / NOTA Slow Scan TV Event

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ARISS / NOTA Slow Scan TV Event

ARISS is planning another of their popular Slow Scan Television (SSTV) experiment events. Transmissions are scheduled to begin Friday 8th February 2019 at 18:25 UTC and run through Sunday 10th February at 18:30 UTC.

SSTV operations is a process by which images are sent from the International Space Station (ISS) via ham radio and received by ham operators, shortwave listeners and other radio enthusiasts on Earth, similar to pictures shared on cell phones using twitter or instagram.

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EI-100-YXQ - Kerry Amateur Radio Group Special Callsign

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Kerry Amateur Radio Group have announced that they will be QRV during the calendar year 2019, using the special event call EI-100-YXQ.

This call will commemorate the centenary of the first voice transmission across the Atlantic, in an East-West direction, from Ballybunion County Kerry to Louisbourg, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The original call used from the former Marconi radio station in Ballybunion was YXQ.

On the anniversary date of 19th March 2019, KARG will be QRV from the site of the former Marconi radio station in Ballybunion, where an open day is planned to include a number of lectures and demonstrations.

KARG invites expressions of interest from any EI ops to air the call throughout 2019.

Please contact Declan EI9FVB for further information on QRZ