[CVRC] The ARRL Letter for October 17, 2013

Thu Oct 17 16:30:21 EDT 2013

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            The  ARRL Letter

Published by the American Radio Relay League
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October 17, 2013

Editor: Rick Lindquist, WW1ME <ww1me at arrl.org>

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- Regulatory: ARRL VEC Responds to Lifting of Government Shutdown
- Your League: ARRL Executive Committee Okays Filing Symbol Rate Rule
Modernization Petition
- Your League: ARRL Designates Six Regional ARRL Centennial Events
- Your League: The ARRL Centennial QSO Party Starts January 1, 2014!
- Public Service: Amateur Radio Volunteers in India, Philippines
Respond to Disasters
- International: ARRL Headquarters Hosts 30th USTTI Amateur Radio
Administration Course
- Events: AMSAT Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Amateur Radio
Involvement in Human Spaceflight
- On the Air: Yukon Territory Sweepstakes Stalwart VY1JA to be Active
on SS CW
- On the Air: Scouts Take to the Air This Weekend for Jamboree on the
Air 2013
- On the Air: IG9Y Lampedusa DXpedition Expresses Concern Following
Shipwreck Tragedy
- K7RA's Solar Activity Report
- Getting It Right!
- This Week in Radiosport
- Upcoming ARRL Section, State and Division Conventions and Events

==> REGULATORY: ARRL VEC RESPONDS TO LIFTING OF GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN

With the end of the partial government shutdown, the ARRL VEC has begun
sending test files to the FCC to determine whether their servers are
ready to accept the large number of forms in the VEC queue.

"We submitted two test license data files this morning and those have
gone through the FCC system without a hitch," said ARRL VEC Manager
Maria Somma, AB1FM. "Over the next day or so we will submit the backlog
of files to FCC in batches of 50 to 100. We don't want to overload
their system."

Somma anticipates they'll be fully caught up by late Friday afternoon.
"We have approximately 250 sessions and over 1500 forms in the queue,"
she explained. "We are also registering future exam session dates and
receiving completed exam sessions in the mail."

Beyond that, Somma says, "day-to-day operations at the ARRL VEC office
are running smoothly despite this unusual event." Somma said most ARRL
VEC exam sessions took place as scheduled, but a few sessions that were
supposed to be held at government facilities such Army National Guard
buildings, had to be cancelled or moved to different locations.

The ARRL does not expect the Commission to immediately start granting
any Amateur Radio-related applications, since it will take some time to
ramp up operations in the wake of the shutdown.

==> YOUR LEAGUE: ARRL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OKAYS FILING SYMBOL RATE RULE
MODERNIZATION PETITION

The ARRL Executive Committee has authorized ARRL General Counsel Chris
Imlay, W3KD, to file a Petition for Rule Making on the League's behalf
calling for the deletion of symbol rate references for data emissions
in the HF bands. The EC met October 5 in Aurora, Colorado.

   The League's Petition, still in the final stages of preparation,
would substitute an authorized bandwidth of 2.8 kHz for all data
emissions in the bands below 30 MHz. Current FCC rules limit data
emissions to a symbol rate of 300 baud below 28 MHz and to 1200 baud on
10 meters. The current limits date to 1980, when US amateurs first were
authorized to use ASCII, reflecting the state of the art back then,
which, the League points out, has been overtaken by technology. After
discussing alternatives to the 2.8 kHz limit, the EC okayed filing the
petition as drafted, subject to any final editorial changes.

At its July meeting, the ARRL Board of Directors, on the recommendation
<http://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Committee%20Reports/2013/July/Doc_28.pdf>
of the Ad Hoc Symbol Rate Rule Modernization Committee, directed Imlay
to draft a Petition for Rule Making with the FCC seeking to modify
§97.307(f) of the Amateur Service rules to delete all references to
symbol rate. The Petition would ask the FCC "to apply to all amateur
data emissions below 29.7 MHz the existing bandwidth limit, per
§97.303(h), of 2.8 kHz." In digital systems "symbol rate" refers to the
number of times per second that a change of state occurs. The ARRL
chose the 2.8 kHz bandwidth, since the FCC already has applied it to
emissions on the channelized 60 meter band and because it's slightly
wider than the data mode bandwidths currently in use by amateurs on HF.

The Ad Hoc Committee had determined that the current symbol rate
restrictions in §97.307(f) "no longer reflect the state of the art of
digital telecommunications technology," and that the proposed rule
change would "encourage both flexibility and efficiency in the
employment of digital emissions by amateur stations." ARRL Chief
Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, discussed the symbol rate issue
in detail in his September 2013 QST "It Seems to Us
<http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-ceo-explains-board-s-action-on-symbol-rate-regulation>"
editorial. "The guiding principle for our use of the spectrum
allocations to the Amateur Radio Service is cooperation in the sharing
of access to a limited resource," Sumner wrote.

On another FCC-related matter, Imlay noted that the FCC has yet to take
action in ET Docket 12-338
<http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-seeks-to-assign-entire-amateur-portion-of-160-meter-band-to-primary-status-to-amateur-radio-serv>
to formally reflect the Final Acts of the 2007 World Radiocommunication
Conference in its rules. Comment deadlines were more than 6 months ago.
The Commission also has taken no action on the ARRL's November 2012
petition to implement a 472-479 kHz allocation, which stemmed from WRC
2012. Imlay said the subject may be considered in a Further Notice of
Proposed Rule Making in the proceeding.

Imlay told the EC that FCC action is expected soon on WT Docket 12-283
<http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-seeks-comments-on-proposed-changes-to-amateur-licensing-rules-emission-types>
and WT Docket 90-209, which contain several proposals to amend rules
governing the administration of Amateur Radio examinations. The League
has argued against a proposal to reduce the number of volunteer
examiners required at an exam session from three to two.

The EC reviewed a draft FCC filing prepared by ARRL Chief Technology
Officer Brennan Price, N4QX, that supports recommendations approved
last month by the FCC Advisory Committee for World Radiocommunication
Conference 2015
<http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-R/conferences/wrc/2015/Pages/default.aspx>.
The EC authorized Price to file the comments, subject to any final
editorial changes.

==> YOUR LEAGUE: ARRL DESIGNATES SIX REGIONAL ARRL CENTENNIAL EVENTS

   As part of its 2014 centennial celebration
<http://www.arrl.org/centennial>, the ARRL has designated six major ham
radio gatherings as "Regional ARRL Centennial Events." The action was
approved October 5 when the ARRL Executive Committee met in Colorado.
ARRL Marketing Manager Bob Inderbitzen developed a proposal for the
concept as a way to, in effect, take the ARRL Centennial celebration to
more radio amateurs across the US.

"While ARRL has planned a premier national-level Centennial Convention
for 2014 in Connecticut, organizing some regional events will encourage
greater awareness for the anniversary and greater participation by
members, for whom traveling to New England will be too far, too costly,
or otherwise not practical," Inderbitzen suggested in his proposal to
the EC.

The centerpiece of the League's centennial is the 2014 ARRL National
Centennial Convention <http://ARRL2014.org> in Hartford, Connecticut,
July 17-19. EC members approved six Regional Centennial Events to
complement the National Convention.

Orlando Hamcation <http://www.hamcation.com>® -- Orlando, Florida,
February 7-9, 2014

Dayton Hamvention <http://www.hamvention.org>® -- Dayton, Ohio, May
16-18, 2014

SEA-PAC <http://www.seapac.org> -- Seaside, Oregon, June 6-8, 2014

Ham-Com <http://www.hamcom.org> -- Plano, Texas, June 13-14, 2014

Huntsville Hamfest <http://www.hamfest.org> -- Huntsville, Alabama,
August 16-17, 2014

Pacificon <http://pacificon.org> -- Santa Clara, California, October
10-12, 2014

In addition to encouraging greater awareness of the ARRL's 100th
anniversary celebration, sanctioning the regional centennial events is
aimed at enhancing the all-volunteer ARRL Field Organization,
generating greater interest in League membership, program, services and
publications, and helping to promote the ARRL's Second Century Campaign
<http://www.arrl.org/arrl-second-century-campaign>.

==> YOUR LEAGUE: THE ARRL CENTENNIAL QSO PARTY STARTS JANUARY 1, 2014!

In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the ARRL, the ARRL
Centennial QSO Party <http://www.arrl.org/centennial-qso-party> is set
to kick off January 1 for a year-long operating event in which
participants can accumulate points and win awards, as well as working
new stations and making new friends. During 2014 W1AW will be on the
air from every state (at least twice) and most US territories, and it
will be easy to work all states solely by contacting W1AW portable
operations. This marks the first ARRL-sponsored operating event where
every member is worth at least one point. The event is open to all,
although only ARRL members and appointees, elected officials, HQ staff
and W1AW are worth points
<http://www.arrl.org/centennial-qso-party#Table>. Working ARRL's
president, for example, earns 300 points!

To qualify for points all contacts must be two-way (no cross-band or

   cross-mode contacts), using CW, phone (FM, SSB, AM, digital voice),
digital (any digital mode, such as PSK31, RTTY) on 160, 80, 40, 30, 17,
15, 12, 10, 6, 2 and 1.25 meters, plus 70 centimeters and satellite.

Stations exchange
<http://www.arrl.org/centennial-qso-party#QSO_Information_Exchange>
signal report and ARRL abbreviation. Contacts do not have to be
contest-style and it isn't necessary to give the ARRL organizational
information. A centennial database will assign point values to all logs
submitted electronically. Those not submitting electronically, however,
will need to obtain the QSO information during the contact. This event
is not a contest, so participants may make contacts in any fashion they
prefer.

The Centennial QSO Party is scored by totaling the values of all
eligible contacts. There are no multipliers or bonus points. Logs
submitted via Logbook of the World (LoTW
<http://www.arrl.org/logbook-of-the-world>) will be scored
automatically.

Awards

Work W1AW operating portable from all 50 states. Working W1AW in
Connecticut does not count for Connecticut, however. Participants can
earn W1AW Connecticut credit only for working W1AW/1 in Connecticut. A
W1AW WAS certificate and plaque will be available (pricing not yet
announced). For an extra challenge, work all 100 W1AW portable
operations -- essentially a double WAS with W1AW!

Endorse the W1AW WAS Certificate with the Territorial Stickers for
working W1AW/KH2, W1AW/KP4, W1AW/KP2, and any others that may be
active, and also endorse with W1AW/3 from the District of Columbia
(stickers are $1 each)

Centennial Points Challenge

To compete in the Centennial Points Challenge, submit logs via Logbook
of the World (LoTW <http://www.arrl.org/logbook-of-the-world>). The
system will automatically look for points-qualifying contacts from
submitted logs and apply them to each participant's Centennial QSO
Points table. QSOs do not have to be matched in LoTW for points to be
achieved -- this is an honor-based event. No paper forms or information
will be accepted for the Centennial Points Challenge, however. Some
points worth noting:

Club call signs do not count for points.

Repeater contacts are not valid for credit.

Mobile and portable operations are okay but do not count for points in
addition to home operation -- ie, a contact with K0GW counts for K0GW,
whether it is made with K0GW/4, K0GW/m, or PJ4/K0GW.

Stations outside of the US may also count for points. More than 10,000
ARRL members live outside the US, and some of these are also volunteer
examiners or DXCC card checkers.

ARRL appointees, staffers, and officers should choose for their contact
exchange the appointment or office held that offers the highest point
value (this is how the database will work also). For example, KI9XX is
an ARRL Life Member (a LM is worth 2 points), a Volunteer Examiner (VE
is worth 5 points) and a State Government Liaison (SGL is worth 30
points), so KI9XX should use "SGL," since that offers the highest point
value. In any event, the database will give credit for the proper point
value.

The top-scoring operator from each ARRL Section, Canadian Province and
DXCC entity will receive a First Place certificate. The Top Five
overall point scorers will receive awards. There is a charge for award
certificates. For complete information, visit the ARRL Centennial QSO
Party
<http://www.arrl.org/centennial-qso-party#QSO_Information_Exchange> web
page. Contact us <100QSOParty at arrl.org> if you have questions.

==> PUBLIC SERVICE: AMATEUR RADIO VOLUNTEERS IN INDIA, PHILIPPINES
RESPOND TO DISASTERS

Teams of radio amateurs have responded to assist in the aftermath of
powerful Cyclone Phailin, which came ashore at Odisha and Andhra
Pradesh in the Bay of Bengal. The storm forced some 500,000 residents
to evacuate ahead of the storm, which flooded thousands of homes. Jayu
Bhide, VU2JAU, has asked other operators to keep 7145 kHz clear for
disaster-related traffic. He says VU2DPI, VU3BHI, and VU2AOR are among
the responders.

   "It is raining heavily," Jayu said October 13, "but so far no
casualty was recorded. Earlier they had six swept into the water. The
rescue work is in progress and not affected by rains." The latest death
toll is 21.

The cyclone affected a 150 kilometer stretch of coastline. Relief
efforts were underway, with displaced residents being fed and housed in
shelters. Many mud homes and farms were destroyed, and uprooted trees
blocked roads, and windy and wet conditions remain in some areas.

In the Philippines a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the islands of
Bohol and Cebu, causing casualties and severe infrastructure damage.
ARES operations were reported to be ongoing, with Philippine hams using
7095 kHz for emergency communication. ARES volunteer Roberto Vicencio,
DU1VHY, has asked others to keep that frequency clear for
disaster-related traffic. -- Jim Linton, VK3PC, IARU Region 3 Disaster
Communications Committee chair; Roberto Vicencio, DU1VHY, via
QRZ.com/Southgate ARC

==> INTERNATIONAL: ARRL HEADQUARTERS HOSTS 30TH USTTI AMATEUR RADIO
ADMINISTRATION COURSE

   Students from the Caribbean and South America attended the 30th
United States Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI
<http://ustti.org/>) Amateur Radio Administration Course (ARAC
<http://www.ustti.org/courses/display.php?CourseID=68>) September
30-October 4 at ARRL Headquarters. ARRL Chief Technology Officer
Brennan Price, N4QX, coordinated the session and administered the
course, designed for government officials in developing countries who
regulate and manage Amateur Radio. ARRL Assistant to the Chief
Executive Officer and Meeting Planner Lisa Kustosik, KA1UFZ,
coordinated the League's participation with USTTI and hosted the
students. Those taking part in the program work in their respective
government's telecommunication offices, where they have
responsibilities for Amateur Radio licensing and regulation as well as
preparation for international conferences.

"Our students -- Ishmael Cadogan, 8P6PE, from Barbados and Dorian
Angulo and Franklin Palate, both from Ecuador -- made the trek to
Newington this year," said Price. "All three students were experienced
regulators, and in Mr. Cadogan's case, an experienced radio amateur,"
Price added. "All were already quite knowledgeable about Amateur Radio,
and left with a deeper understanding of the unique nature of the
Amateur Radio Service."

The ARAC curriculum covers a variety of Amateur Radio topics and
concerns, including licensing, spectrum requirements, disaster
communications, and antenna requirements. The curriculum also covers
the International Telecommunication Union (ITU <http://www.itu.int/>)
and its regulations, as well as the process leading to the upcoming
World Radiocommunication Conference 2012 (WRC-15).

   ARRL staff members delivered classroom presentations within their
areas of expertise. Emergency Preparedness Manager Mike Corey, KI1U,
taught a unit on Amateur Radio's emergency communication capabilities,
while QST Editor Steve Ford, WB8IMY, covered digital communication and
Amateur Radio satellites. ARRL Regulatory Information Manager Dan
Henderson, N1ND, discussed licensing, examination and regulatory
issues. Laboratory Engineer Bob Allison, WB1GCM, supervised each
student's successful assembly of a 40 meter receiver kit, that each
student got to take home.

   USTTI is a non-profit joint venture of leading US-based
communications, IT corporations and leaders of the federal government,
who collectively provide tuition-free management, policy and technical
training for talented professionals from the developing world. The ARRL
hosts a course on Amateur Radio to introduce or further educate
regulators and other spectrum users to its needs and unique issues. The
next ARAC course is slated for fall 2014.

==> EVENTS: AMSAT CELEBRATES 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF AMATEUR RADIO
INVOLVEMENT IN HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT

   The 31st Annual AMSAT <http://www.amsat.org/> Space Symposium and
Annual Meeting <http://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=1555> November 1-3 in
Houston -- home of Johnson Space Center -- will highlight the 30th
anniversary of Amateur Radio's involvement in human spaceflight and the
evolution of Amateur Radio into a successful program aboard the
International Space Station. Forums
<http://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=1564http://> during the event will focus
on various aspects of Amateur Radio in space, satellites and
satellite-related technology.

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS
<http://ariss.rac.ca/>) is an international educational outreach that
provides opportunities for students to chat with astronauts and
cosmonauts aboard the ISS via ham radio. The recent delivery of the
"Ham Video
<http://www.arrl.org/news/ham-video-transmitter-is-now-aboard-the-iss>"
equipment to the ISS Columbus module by the European Space Agency
further reflects the continued support that Amateur Radio provides for
communicating with students.

   It all began with NASA Astronaut Owen Garriott
<http://ww2.amsat.org/?page_id=1723&preview=true>, W5LFL, the first
astronaut to communicate via ham radio from space during STS-9 in 1983.
He will be featured on a multimedia panel as part of the Saturday
banquet program, moderated by AMSAT Vice President for Human Space
Flight Frank Bauer, KA3HDO. The presentation will include video
highlights of Amateur Radio in space.

Happening this year in Houston, this year's Symposium banquet will
offer an opportunity for guests to "meet history" by hearing directly
from those who helped initiate Amateur Radio as a part of human space
flight. The deadline to reserve rooms in the AMSAT block is Wednesday,
October 16. Reservations for all Symposium activities will close
October 25. -- AMSAT News Service

==> ON THE AIR: YUKON TERRITORY SWEEPSTAKES STALWART VY1JA TO BE ACTIVE
ON SS CW

J Allen, VY1JA, will end his radio silence this year and take part in
the 2013 ARRL November Sweepstakes <http://www.arrl.org/sweepstakes> CW
from Whitehorse, in Canada's Yukon Territory. He's also hoping to
become more active in Amateur Radio again.

   "Remember to watch for VY1JA on about 21.027 and 7.027. I will need
your patience, because I have been essentially QRT the last 6 years,"
he said in a CQ-Contest reflector post. Allen said he'll only be
available on 40 and 15 meters this year because those are the only two
places his quarter-wave 40 meter ground place will operate.

"I have no backup antenna, because bad weather shut me down," he told
ARRL, adding that he's not planning to operate for the SS phone
weekend. J says he's now running a Yaesu FT-990 and an Alpha 9500
amplifier (both with appropriate backups). He describes himself, "the
operator," as "old and worn out but still breathing (no spare because
they threw away the mold)."

Down the road he hopes to complete the installation of a quarter-wave
vertical for 80 and possibly a broadside pair of phased verticals
directed at the US for SS. He reports that the verticals are in place,
but he did not have time to trench his coax feed line, "and cold
weather is here." So finding VY1JA on 80 meters this year "would take a
miracle," he said.

He also wants to set up a crank-up tilt-over tower with a multiband
Yagi for the higher bands. He says he's done with climbing. J also is
looking forward to doing some "weak signal" work on VHF and UHF as well
as at the other end of the spectrum, 137 kHz. Then there's the hope of
operating more RTTY contests and wrapping up WAS on 6 meters.

"I just hope Jiminy Cricket was right about dreams coming true," he
concluded.

==> ON THE AIR: SCOUTS TAKE TO THE AIR THIS WEEKEND FOR JAMBOREE ON THE
AIR 2013

   Scouting's largest worldwide event -- Jamboree on the Air (JOTA
<http://www.arrl.org/jamboree-on-the-air-jota>) -- takes to the
airwaves this weekend (October 19-20) starting at 0000 local time
Saturday to 2400 local time Sunday. Some 750,000 Scouts at 6000
stations in 150 countries around the world are expected to take part in
this, the 56th Jamboree on the Air. JOTA provides an opportunity for
members of the Boy Scouts of America <http://www.scouting.org/> to
experience Amateur Radio firsthand, perhaps planting the seed for a
lifetime of hamming. Not a contest, JOTA's goal is to foster
Scout-to-Scout communication across borders.

"The idea is to contact other Scout stations and allow as many Scouts
as possible to talk to other Scouts and learn about who they are and
what they are doing," the BSA says in its JOTA guidelines
<http://www.scouting.org/jota/operators_guides.aspx>, which offer
suggested frequencies.

Veteran radio amateur mentors often open their stations to Scouts on
JOTA weekend, serving as control operators. Radio operation will be on
80 through 6 meters and 2 meters and 70 centimeters FM simplex, all
modes. Through its Radio Scouting sponsorship, Icom America is
providing stations for JOTA and other Scouting events, including the
loan of five stations that will be on the air for JOTA 2013.

Last year approximately 18,500 US Scouts took part in JOTA from more
than 200 stations, up by nearly 500 percent from a year earlier

The Daily DX <http://www.dailydx.com> reports that PI4RAZ has set up a
JOTA cluster site <http://www.pi4raz.nl/jotacluster/cluster.php> for
participants to find JOTA activity.

==> ON THE AIR: IG9Y LAMPEDUSA DXPEDITION EXPRESSES CONCERN FOLLOWING
SHIPWRECK TRAGEDY

Team Lampedusa will be active as IG9Y <http://ig9.ii9p.com/> from
Lampedusa Island, Italy, starting October 17 and through the CQ World
Wide SSB.

   "We would like to thank the amateur community and the sponsors for
your generous support, and look forward to putting you in our log,"
said Team Lampedusa's Dale Long, N3BNA, on behalf of the group. The
international contingent of operators will include HA1YA, JH5GHM,
LZ1QN, N3BNA, PC5A, PE1ITR, S50X, S52RU, S57UN, S57DX, S59A, RC0F,
RT4RO, and VE3LA.

Lampedusa has been in the news recently as the site of the tragic fire
aboard a ship that subsequently sank October 3 while carrying
immigrants from North Africa to Europe. More than 350 people died when
the vessel went down some 2600 feet from shore.

Team Lampedusa has set up a PayPal account <ig9y.charity at gmail.com>
where individuals and groups can donate to address needs resulting from
the tragedy. "We will do what we can," the group's statement said. "We
hope that the amateur community will show its concern." All gifts will
be acknowledged, and the group says 100 percent of donations will go to
charity.

Located between Malta and Tunisia, Lampedusa is Italy's southernmost
island and is geographically part of the African continent.

==> K7RA'S SOLAR ACTIVITY REPORT

Recent solar activity took a healthy jump this week, with the average
daily sunspot number increasing nearly 48 points to 126.9, a positive
change of 60 percent compared to the previous week. Average daily solar
flux was up 16.4 points to 126.5.

The daily sunspot number rose to 148 on October 15, the highest it's
been since August 21, when it was 149. Higher numbers prior to that
were 161 on August 19 and 186, 212 and 198 on May 15-17.

Average planetary A index was unchanged, at 8.1. The high latitude
college A index indicated active geomagnetic conditions on October
14-15, when it was 31 and 27.

The latest prediction shows solar flux at 125 on October 17-18, 120 on
October 19-21, 110 on October 22-23, 105 on October 24, 100 on October
25-29, 105 on October 30-31, 100 on November 1-2, 110 on November 3-4,
115 on November 5, 120 on November 6-7, and 125 on November 8-12.

Predicted planetary A index is 15 and 10 on October 17-18, 5 on October
19-20, 10 on October 21-22, 5 on October 23 through November 10, 12 on
November 11, and 5 on November 12-16.

Look for an updated forecast in Friday's bulletin and reports from
readers. If you have anything to report, please send it to
k7ra at arrl.net.

==> GETTING IT RIGHT!

In the article "On the Air: Pacific, Asia DX Operations Announced," in
The ARRL Letter, October 10, 2013, we erroneously included the
November-December 5V7TH operation in Togo, which is in Africa.

==> THIS WEEK IN RADIOSPORT

- Oct 18 -- MCG Autumn Sprint

- Oct 19 -- Iowa QSO Party

- Oct 19 -- Feld Hell Sprint

- Oct 19-20 -- Jamboree on the Air (JOTA)

- Oct 19-20 -- JARTS WW RTTY Contest

- Oct 19-20 -- 10-10 International Fall Contest, CW

- Oct 19-20 -- New York QSO Party

- Oct 19-20 -- Stew Perry Topband Challenge ("Pre-Stew")

- Oct 19-20 -- Worked All Germany Contest

- Oct 19-20 -- W/VE Islands QSO Party

- Oct 20 -- Asia-Pacific Fall Sprint, CW

- Oct 20 -- UBA ON Contest, 2 M

- Oct 20-21 -- Illinois QSO Party

- Oct 21 -- Run for the Bacon QRP Contest

- Oct 21 -- NAQCC-EU Monthly Sprint

- Oct 21-25 -- ARRL School Club Roundup

- Oct 23 -- SKCC Sprint

- Oct 23 -- CWops Mini-CWT Test

- Oct 24 -- RSGB 80 Meter Club Sprint, SSB

==> UPCOMING ARRL SECTION, STATE AND DIVISION CONVENTIONS AND EVENTS

- October 18-19 -- Microwave Update Conference
<http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/microwave-update-2013-conference>,
Morehead, Kentucky

- October 26 -- Delaware State Convention
<http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/delaware-state-convention-delmarva-radio-electronics-expo>,
Georgetown, Delaware

- November 2 -- Fall TechFest
<http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/2013-fall-techfest>, Lakewood, Colorado

- November 2-3 -- Georgia Section Convention
<http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/georgia-section-convention-stone-mountain-hamfest-computer-expo-2013>,
Lawrenceville, Georgia

- November 8-9 -- Midwest Division Convention
<http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/midwest-division-convention-1>, Lebanon,
Missouri

- November 9 -- Atlantic Division Virtual Convention
<http://www.atldiv.org/convention.htm> (Webinar)
- November 9 -- All-Ohio ARES Conference
<http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/all-ohio-ares-conference>, Reynoldsburg,
Ohio

- November 16-17 -- Indiana State Convention
<http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/indiana-state-convention-fort-wayne-hamfest-and-computer-expo-1>,
Fort Wayne, Indiana

- December 6-7 -- West Central Florida Section Convention
<http://www.arrl.org/hamfests/west-central-florida-section-convention-tampa-bay-hamfest-3>,
Plant City, Florida

Find conventions and hamfests in your area
<http://www.arrl.org/hamfests>.

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