This week in Radio Sports: (Apr 24 thru Apr 30)
ARRL Affiliated Special Events :
- 04/25/2017 | 150th Anniversary of the Chisholm Trail
Apr 25-Apr 30, 0000Z-2359Z, W5G, Various. Menasco Amateur Radio Club. All bands, all modes. QSL. QSL to , amateur, worked. Club KC5NX will be sponsoring this special event commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Chisholm Trail that moved over 5,000,000 cattle thru Texas and Oklahoma to Abilene Kansas during the late 1800s. Seven stations will be set up along the original trail using the call signs W5A, W5B, W5C, W5D, W5E, W5F, and W5G. QSL address info is listed under W5C on QRZ.COM. Please QSL to the station worked with SASE. https://www.qrz.com/db/w5c
- 04/25/2017 | Mississippi State Guard Annual Training
Apr 25-Apr 30, 0000Z-2359Z, W4W, Camp Shelby , MS. MSSG 2nd Brigade. 15.250 14.325 7.220. QSL. Robert J Riley, 1799 Greer Rd., Coldwater, MS 38618. Send QSL requests with a SASE and $1.25 to K4LZR and specify W4W with the request. www.msstateguard.us
- 04/25/2017 | SIMCOM 2017
Apr 25-Apr 27, 0001Z-2359Z, W5M, Lake Delton, WI. AF MARS SIMCOM 2017. 14.240 7.200 3.990 14.070. QSL. Carol Krueger, 4013 Mary Lynn Dr, Urbandale, IA 50322. QUESTIONS EMAIL K0ISP2017@GMAIL.COM AFMARS WILL BE OPERATING A ECOMM PLATFORM AS PART OF THE SIMCOM 2017 EVENT. QSL VIA EQSL, AND PAPER WITH SASE. WILL BE OPERATING PSK31 ON 14.070 USB, VOICE ON 14.240 USB, 7.200 LSB, 3.990 LSB AND ON THE 60 METER BAND AS PROPAGATION ALLOWS. K0ISP2017@GMAIL.COM
- 04/28/2017 | City of Baton Rouge 200th Anniversary
Apr 28-May 8, 0000Z-2359Z, N5B, Baton Rouge, LA. Baton Rouge Amateur Radio Club. 14.240 14.060 7.240 7.060. QSL. BRARC, PO Box 4004, Baton Rouge, LA 70821. brarc.org
- 04/29/2017 | Russell Elementary’s 19th Annual 27-hour Space Shuttle Mission Simulation
Apr 29-May 5, 1600Z-1600Z, KM4RE, Mableton, GA. Russell Elementary Amateur Radio Club. 14.266 7.245. QSL. KM4RE: Russell Elementary ARC, 3920 South Hurt Rd, Smyrna, GA 30082. Recognizing the Russell Elementary School’s 19th annual Space Shuttle Mission Simulation. Russell Elementary is located in Smyrna, GA. Students train all year for different positions in Mission Control or the Space Shuttle Simulator Intrepid and then put their skills to the test during a 27-hour simulated mission. You can learn much more about our school’s space program at our program’s website: http://russellroadrunners.typepad.com/space/ All radio operation, QSO logging, and QSL card design and processing for this special event is done by the elementary school students. We will operate intermittently to work around student schedules. 100% phone. https://www.qrz.com/db/km4re
- 04/29/2017 | Samuel F. B. Morse Day
Apr 29, 1400Z-2000Z, W2M, Poughkeepsie, NY. QSY SOCIETY. 28.035 14.035 7.035. QSL. Scott Dunlavey, PO Box 146, Verbank, NY 12585. W2NTV@ARRL.NET or www.qrz.com/db/w2m
- 04/29/2017 | Samuel F. B. Morse Exhibition
Apr 29, 1400Z-2000Z, N4M, Winston Salem, NC. Forsyth Amateur Radio Club. 7.044 7.244 14.044 14.244. QSL. Forsyth Amateur Radio Club, P.O. Box 11361, Winston Salem, NC 27116. The Forsyth Amateur Radio Club of Winston-Salem, NC, will sponsor Special Event Station, N4M, in celebration of the Reynolds House Museum of American Art’s Exhibition – Samuel F.B. Morse’s “Gallery of the Louvre” and the Art of Invention. www.reynoldahouse.org/exhibitions/detail/samuel-fb-morses-gallery-of-the-louvre-and-the-art-of-invention or www.w4nc.com
Dxpeditions From Afar:
| 2017 Apr24 | 2017 May01 | St Kitts & Nevis | V4 | W1CDC Direct | TDDX 20170321 | By W1CDC as V4/W1CDC; 160-10m; mainly CW |
| 2017 Apr24 | 2017 May07 | Maldives | 8Q7EJ | LotW | TDDX 20170418 | By G3VDB fm Vilamendhoo I (IOTA AS-013); 20m, perhaps 30 17m; mainly CW, perhaps SSB + digital; holiday style operation; QSL aso OK via G3VDB (Buro or direct) or Club Log |
| 2017 Apr25 | 2017 May06 | Botswana | A25UK | M0OXO | DXW.Net 20170209 | By G0VJG + team; 160-6m; CW SSB RTTY; up to five stations |
| 2017 Apr27 | 2017 May03 | Dodecanese | SV9 | OH1VR CBA | OH1VR 20170415 | By OH1VR as SV9/OH1VR; 80-10m; wire |
| 2017 Apr28 | 2017 May13 | South Cook Is | E51 | TDDX 20161129 | By W6HB as E51AND, KG7MXL as E51JD, KI7DLK as E51BQ fm Rarotonga I (IOTA OC-013); 160-10m; SSB | |
| 2017 Apr29 | 2017 May06 | Cayman Is | ZF2AB | WA3EOP | DXNews 20161129 | By KZ3AB fm IOTA NA-016; HF |
| 2017 Apr30 | 2017 May12 | South Cook Is | E5 | Home Call | DXW.Net 20170315 | By AD7MM as E51BAS and W6HB as E51DLD fm Rarotonga I; 160-10m; yagis, wires |
Contesting:
| + 222 MHz Spring Sprint | 1900 local – 2300 local, Apr 25 |
| + SKCC Sprint | 0000Z-0200Z, Apr 26 |
| + Phone Fray | 0230Z-0300Z, Apr 26 |
| + CWops Mini-CWT Test | 1300Z-1400Z, Apr 26 and 1900Z-2000Z, Apr 26 and 0300Z-0400Z, Apr 27 |
| + UKEICC 80m Contest | 2000Z-2100Z, Apr 26 |
| + RSGB 80m Club Championship, Data | 1900Z-2030Z, Apr 27 |
| + NCCC RTTY Sprint | 0145Z-0215Z, Apr 28 |
| + NCCC Sprint | 0230Z-0300Z, Apr 28 |
| + Feld Hell Sprint | 0000Z-2359Z, Apr 29 |
| + 10-10 Int. Spring Contest, Digital | 0001Z, Apr 29 to 2359Z, Apr 30 |
| + Helvetia Contest | 1300Z, Apr 29 to 1259Z, Apr 30 |
| + Florida QSO Party | 1600Z, Apr 29 to 0159Z, Apr 30 and 1200Z-2159Z, Apr 30 |
