Slovenian 30 Years of Independence Award

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The Slovenian Amateur Radio Union will celebrate the country's 30 years of Independence by issuing a special award. It will be eligible to all amateur radio enthusiasts all over the World.

For this event only, which started at the end of June and is running until 31st December 2021, 23:59 UTC, the Slovenian amateur radio stations can use special call signs. Those will add the number '30' into the suffix. For example: S50ZZ will be S5030ZZ, S51A will be S5130A, S57XXX will be S5730XXX etc.

In order to obtain the award a foreign amateur radio station must have at least 30 contacts with a S5 stations (regular and special call signs apply), out of which 10 or more with special prefixes ('30'). The use of any band/mode counts for the award.

Send the log - list of contacts (date, time, call, band and mode) to the following e-mail address: scc /at/ hamradio.si. The same email also applies for any possible questions.

The award will be issued in electronic form and will be downloadable as a PDF file from the website of Slovenia Contest Club.

Summer 2021 AM QSO Party

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Amplitude Modulation Amateur Radio Society and the AM Amateur Radio Europe Facebook group are pleased to announce the Summer 2021 AM QSO Party.

This is an opportunity to make some QSOs using the original voice mode on all the available HF bands from 160m thru 10m, fingers crossed that propagation allows us to use the higher bands for longer distance QSOs around Europe and even further afield!

The event runs from 18:00 UTC on Friday 16th July until 18:00 on Sunday 18th July, full information can be found at the AM QSO PARTY webpages:

AM QSO PARTY (wixsite.com) - https://amqsoparty.wixsite.com/mysite

To find us on Facebook simply search ‘AM Amateur Radio Europe’ and join.

MacLoggerDX Version 6.34 Released

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Dog Park Software is pleased to announce that version 6.34 of MacLoggerDX has been released.

What's New in this version:

  • Requires OS X 10.13+.

  • macOS 11 (Big Sur) supported.

  • Apple M1 Silicon (Universal) application.

  • WinKeyer scrolling, prosigns improved.

  • Log Date Range search improved.

  • WSJT-X DX Call de-bounced.

  • Added "No Card, eQSL, LOTW Sent" Log search choice.

  • Remove TS; query from TS-2000 driver.

  • IC-781A driver added.

This is a free update for all Version 6 customers and can be downloaded from - https://dogparksoftware.com/MacLoggerDX.html