PRESENTER OPINION : The Lost Tribe, the Pied Piper and The Executive.

PRESENTER OPINION : The Lost Tribe, the Pied Piper and The Executive.

Think that the ARRL was the first amateur radio association in the United States? Or that the famous and brilliant inventor also “invented” amateur radio? If so, you are not alone. But pesky historical documents and the facts they contain tell a deeper and more accurate story. It’s in the October issue of The Spectrum Monitor. Smartly edited by Ken Reitz KS4ZR, TSM is a wonderful read in my household. I go back as a subscriber to TSM’s predecessor, the Monitoring Times, launched by Bob Groves, years ago. It’s a real honor for me to get the cover feature in the TSM this month. Thank you, Ken and Thomas K4SWL, for the encouragement on this revealing story!

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IOTA Contest 2021 Logs Now Online

The logs for the IOTA Contest 2021 island stations have been added to the IOTA database and are available for QSO matching.

Record holders who have made IOTA contacts in an IOTA contest after 2003 can claim credit for them without submitting QSLs, provided that the contact details match.

IOTA - https://www.iota-world.org/

Once you have logged in, go to the My IOTA tab and select Add Contest QSOs.

OPERATING Notes: Bands heating up, IC-2820H, CW Skimmer

OPERATING Notes: Bands heating up, IC-2820H, CW Skimmer

The bands finally seem to be heating up. I’ve managed to make European contacts nearly every day for the past week. Just last night, I called CQ on 40m just before 0000Z and got a reply from an LZ3. He was S5 here, but since I wasn’t expecting a DX call, I had to get him to repeat his call for me. Of course, it didn’t help that he’d only sent it once—DX style—in the first place.

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