8J17CALL Stats for January-February, 2021

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Details have been released of the monthly performance of 8J17CALL, 7-CALL 30th Anniversary Special station for January-February, 2021 (23rd January to 22nd February 2021).

  • The monthly result in this period is 1,408 QSOs including 117 DX QSOs.

  • Overall result from the beginning is 20,020 QSOs including 2,510 DX QSOs as of 22nd February, 2021.

  • 7-CALL is Japanese callsign starting with “7" and it is a symbol of the golden age of Japanese amateur radio history.There are only 16,701 7-CALL stations (just 6.42% of overall issued 7-CALLs) still exist as of the end of 2020.

Further promotion of the 30th Anniversary of Japanese 7-CALL issuance with the special station until 22nd April, 2021. The special station is also known as a brand new WPX.

More detail - https://7-call.com/news20200314

PRESENTER OPINION : How to End a Contact

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PRESENTER OPINION : How to End a Contact

If you like to actually converse with other hams on the air, there’s always an issue with when and how to end a contact. It’s bad enough on phone when there are no visual cues and even worse on CW because there are no audible cues. A recent article that I came across online, “2 Science-Backed Ways to Politely End a Conversation,” might offer some help in this regard.

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Israel celebrates 73 years of Independence with Special Event Station

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Jan, 4X1VF, informs OPDX readers, "This year is a very special for the ham radio family all over the world." Special activity will take place during these days using the special callsigns 4X73(XX) and 4Z73(XX).

The "XX" will include each operator's last two letters of their private callsign.

The activity will start 0600 UTC, 14th April, until Saturday, 2200 UTC, 17th April 2021

QSL connects will be uploaded to LoTW or operators will have their own private QSL cards printed. Some of the operators will use the special callsigns during the "Holyland Contest" that will be taking place in the same weekend.