“Any radio amateur currently transmitting from Ukraine is risking his or her life. If you hear a Ukrainian station, do not broadcast its callsign, location or frequency — whether on the band, in a cluster or on social media. You may be putting lives at risk.”
Source: DARC HF Committee via facebook
Edited by Paul Gaskell, G4MWO, the newsletter provides info on new allocations in the 60m band worldwide. The first issue of the 5 MHz Newsletter was published in autumn 2011 and heralded the growth of the new 60-metre band.
Thus, the current issue reports that the Malaysian Telecommunications Authority MCMC has now also approved a secondary 60-metre allocation based on the WRC-15 template. The local amateur radio association MARTS sporadically operates a beacon in WSPR mode on 5364.7 kHz under the callsign 9M4BQC. The authorisation is for a limited period of time. The beacon has been heard in Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Canary Islands, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Hawaii, Italy, Luxembourg, Manchester, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Sweden, the UK and the USA.
The latest issue of the 5 MHz Newsletter (No. 28 Autumn-Winter 2022) — the anniversary issue — is now available for free download in the ‘External Links’ section of Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60-meter_band#External_links) or on the RSGB’s 5 MHz page at http://rsgb.org/main/operating/band-plans/hf/5mhz/.
Graphics: en.wikipedia.org — by Petr Dlouhy (original), Paul Gaskell (yellow colouration) — CC0
Due to the current events, the UBA has decided to cancel the UBA DX CW 2022 contest which was scheduled to take place this weekend (26 and 27 FEB). This is reported by UBA HF Manager Egbert Hertsen, ON4CAS.
We are happy to announce that we will have three (3) more YOTA Contest sessions coming up in 2022 again. Lots of participants enjoyed the 2021 sessions already and thus we hope to get even more people involved into the events this year.
The upcoming three sessions will be taking place on the following days:
1st round | 21st May 2022 | 0800 – 1959 UTC
2nd round | 23rd July 2022 | 1000 – 2159 UTC
3rd round | 30th December 2022 | 1200 – 2359 UTC
So, are you ready to compete within the next YOTA Contest? Everyone in the ham radio community can take part, it takes place three times per year and only lasts 12 hours. Its aim is to increase the youngsters’ activity on the air, strengthening the reputation of the YOTA program and demonstrate the support for youngsters across the world.
We have implemented 8 different categories which also include special ones for youngsters (≤ 25 years old) only. Covering the 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m and 10m bands the competition will take place in CW and SSB modes.
The contest exchange used will be the age of the participating operators. Different ages also serve as multipliers during the contest.
Contacts between the own continent are worth 1 point, working DX is worth 3 points but the most points will be achieved by working youngsters. The younger the operator the more points one will get for the QSO.
During the past year we have received several rule translations into various languages. A big thank you to the contributors! So, if you are not that fluent in English, check them out here.
If you have any further questions after reading through the rules, please go to our FAQ page to see if your question has been answered already. If you still have a question, feel free to drop the YOTA Contest Committee an email at contest@ham-yota.com and we are happy to reply.
On behalf of the YOTA Contest Committee,
73 Philipp, 5B4AQC | DK6SP
Chair
Youth Working Group
International Amateur Radio Union
Region 1
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Please feel free to use attached documents to advertise the event.
Press Release:
Press_Release_YOTA_Contest_20220224
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Information by DARC | AATiS
21.02.2022
Introduction
The annual School Club EU – Day activity on May 5th is supposed to bring contacts with and among school amateur radio club and training stations and school girls and boys with own callsigns as well as contacts with every other station from all over Europe (WAE list). The activity is a great way to get young operators on the air from their school shacks using their training call signs (or the school club’s call sign for irrelevant messages only – according to national law). Very often a new operator will be intimidated by the fear of not knowing what to say to the stranger on the other side of the radio. The exchange of information helps to overcome this fear in a low pressure contest format, it should not be made a “5 – 9‑contest”, though. Operators are encouraged to take more time to chat beyond the exchange of the necessary details. A certificate of participation will be issued for stations that send an excerpt from the log of the day. There is also the chance of winning one of the fantastic prizes issued by AATiS.
Terms and conditions
class (B): 2m, 70cm, operation via repeaters is allowed (please note CALLs of the repeaters)
NEW: QO-100 Skeds at the 23rd School Club EU — Day
On the initiative of DL0IKT, we invite the school stations with the AMSAT/DARC/AATiS QO100 starter package and all interested hamradio operators to radio contacts via QO-100 on the Europe Day of Amateur Radio School Stations. Three times (0900, 1200 and 1500 UTC) in the SSB range at 10489.700 MHz are proposed, at which DF0AIS will also be QRV. In addition, any skeds can be made separately.
School stations should also indicate the name of the school. Every QSO with an amateur radio school station and with DF0AIS between 0800 and 1800 UTC will be counted with 1000 points in the Europe Day account.
Necessary dates in the head of the log:
- name(s) and age(s) oft he OPs
- paricipation class (A) or (B)
- name of the school (college, university,…)
- WW-Locator
- postal address
Log entries: UTC, CALL, RST/Q, band, mode, WW-Locator + OP-name, distance (QRB)
Important! The log should include all contacts in the chosen 4 hours period.
Mark the 60-minute period, i.e. the entire log should also be transmitted, if necessary additionally.
Send the log at the latest 2 weeks after the „School Club EU — Day“ (20th May 2022) preferred via eMail to: dk0ktl@aatis.de(link sends e‑mail)
Please add photos from the OPs (*.jpg) Some of these will be shown on the certificates
Paper Logs go to:
AATiS e.V.
c/o Peter Eichler,
Birkenweg 13,
07639 Tautenhain
Germany
Certificates for all participants (teams/operators) send by eMail as PDF. For laminated A4 paper certificates please send SASE with sufficient postage. (5 US$)
*** PSK31 BONUS SWL TASK ***
There will be transmitted a special „SWL-TASK“ in PSK31 mode
At 0800, 1000 UTC on 7,040 MHz
1100, 1300, 1400 UTC on 14,070 MHz
1400, 1700, 1800 UTC on 3,580 MHz
Send your solution to: dk0ktl@aatis.de(link sends e‑mail)
From all valid logs and solutions there will be a raffle from electronic DIY-kits made by AATiS!
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