Ham radio contesting has lots of information in many different places — including the most popular articles here on K9JY.com — 30 days, 30 contesting tips. Pete, N4ZR, has spearheaded the creation of a Wiki site devoted to contesting called the Contesting Compendium. The idea for ham radio contesting is to have a single site [...]
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Ham Radio has the UltraDX Web Site
Ultra DX is a web site for ham radio that offers a wide range of services to the DXer or Contester. Set up in 2008 (I think), the site is still evolving.
Here is a review of the major components of the site.
UltraDX Community
UltraDX, like most sites, wants to build a community around the site for [...]
ARRL to update web site?
When you develop content for a site (like the K9JY WriteLog User Site), you go through some hoops trying to figure out how to organize the information, how to present it, and how to keep it updated. As you do updates, the site becomes unwieldy and more difficult to use.
So it is with the ARRL [...]
Finding and Converting Latitude and Longitude
Over the IARU weekend, during the lousy band conditions in the middle of the day here in the Pacific Northwest, I did one of my rabbit hole excursions. I wanted to find the exact latitude and longitude of my house and enter that into the ham programs (like WriteLog, DX Atlas, and W6EL Propagation) I [...]
New ARRL Site up
The ARRL has put up another blog site using the same software (but different hosting) as used here at K9JY.com. The site, called We Do that — Radio looks to provide news-type articles about the different aspects of Amateur Radio.
Since there are many aspects to the hobby, their ability to put out content should [...]
Solar Cycle Web Site
Since we’re starting to move out into the new Solar Cycle, I’m starting to pay a lot more attention to the fundamentals about how sunspots are measured and finding some sites about it.
A cool site I was directed to was VE3EN’s Solar Cycle 24 site with all things consolidated down to a single page. [...]
CQ WW CW Live Scores
A fun thing to check out while working the contest: Get Scores.
Yes, interfaced into the site are stations who are sharing their live scores on the web. Here’s a partial screen shot from the site as I am writing this on Saturday afternoon at 2100Z:
DX Cluster Telnet Directory Rocks
In the ever-changing world of DX spotting networks and nodes, it’s nice to know someone is keeping track of all the sites. For those of us who travel the world to the next contesting DXpedition, having a resource for the closest node can be critical for achieving multi-operator nirvana.
So surf on over to DX Cluster. [...]
Global QSL — Creating your account
The first step in working with Global QSL is creating an account for your callsigns, QSL Bureau, and/or your QSL Manager. This is pretty straightforward:
1. Provide the callsigns you want to have Global QSL send out cards.
In my case, I’ve held the callsigns of KA9QVD, NB9C, NB200C, K9JY, VP9/K9JY, and TI5/K9JY. However, I [...]
Global QSL — The benefits
Last week, I said that I’d update you all on my experience with Global QSL during the week. Well, I missed last week due to commitments balanced with time; I’m ending up doing it this week.
What I am going to focus on over the next series of posts is how Global QSL works and why [...]
Radio Sport Updates Web Site
Jamie, NS3T, has updated his contest reporting site at radio-sport.net site — your home for ham radio contest news. On it right now you will find the big news about the big contest — CQ WW SSB contest at the end of October. Jamie gives us nine different stories from different angles [...]
Bureau QSL Cards
One of the consequences of contesting is that you receive a great number of QSL cards in response to the contacts. And, unlike direct cards where cards come in day by day or Log of the World where there is a file upload, bureau cards come in an envelope from your local bureau.
My pile came [...]
