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2014WRTC Official Apparel And Accessories

As quoted from the website, "The WRTC2014 Committee has appointed Wicked Designz LLC to handle all merchandise for the WRTC 2014 event."

Who will be the first on the West Coast sporting 2014WRTC official sport wear?

WRTC 2014 store.

RadioSport USA | QSO Party Cubed

I'm ready for a cubed party after a long week inside the hardhat with toes protected by steel and clothes stained by grease. If three parties are not enough there is the crushing swarm of signals at the intersection of general and extra class privileges. Count me in for a good party this weekend, one to relax with Morse code over the rocks, shaken but not stirred, including the possibility of logging the DXpedition of the year?

On the other hand, listening to RadioSport in the Ford Explorer with 195,000 miles on the odometer is nothing like wearing the cans with a hot cup of coffee stationed next to the keyboard. I couldn't ask for anymore as solar weather is stable enough to ensure coast-to-coast wireless connections and possibly bagging the big rhino pumping radio frequency into the ionosphere half a planet away.

QSO Party Cubed--

1. 7th Call Area QSO Party.
2. New England QSO Party.
3. Indiana QSO Party.  

I have a lot of ham radio fun waiting over the radio horizon with a ton of counties up for grabs throughout Saturday and Sunday. Also, one giant swarm that's making headline DX news in the Five Cities, wishing everyone good luck and hope to see you in the RadioSport log.

Contest on! 

7O6T | Socotra Island | Yemen

Release credit DX World, DxCoffee, and AE5X who transmitted the news into #hamr blogosphere. This is exceptional because the swarm to follow will certainly be unlike anything heard on high frequency as of this date. Literally, I'm hedging that the entire wireless world, okay, 99.9 percent is going to call every second, of every minute, of every day while 7O6T fills global computer logs.

It is telling, as mentioned by AE5X, that Elecraft K3 transceivers form the technological backbone for the team. Their antenna systems include a Robinson for limited ground space, SpiderBeam, Cushcraft A3S, CT-HF37, BiggIR to include a 2 element vertical array, and beverages for listening.

The team is not under staffed with sharp operators who will handle the ensuing swarms across several kilohertz of high frequency spectrum space. Likewise, their hardware meets mission requirements when unleashed signals begin to pummel their K3 receivers.

Chase DX!

Cycle 24 Screenshot Project | 29 April 2012

Good afternoon, what has happened to the ferocity of Cycle 24 as 10m more or less, has barely climbed out of its cyclical hibernation? Yet, I patiently wait, perhaps even for one glorious weekend, when the numbers go stratospheric and vapor signals hammer the TS850S s-meter like meteor shards striking across the midnight sky, bright and brilliant.

Is Cycle 24 tantalizing me as hordes of sunspots rotate around the visible disc disappearing when Friday night shack lights are turned on? I watch the numbers peak then drift downward though not enough to remind me of the days when 20m was the only spectrum space capable of supporting long distance wireless communications.

Neither do I want to forget 15m when the band was literally barren of signals and I read reflector reminiscing about a time when signals carved out transatlantic paths or reached deep into the heart of Asia or Oceania. There was a time and that time shall return again however there remains enough power in Cycle 24 to keep my thirst satisfied for long distance wireless communications.

Instead, the ionospheric season has changed, as summer comes to the Northern Hemisphere, before the final potential climax of Cycle 24 is written? The record sunspot count remains fixed like one's tower foundation and seven months remain before its one year anniversary.

Am I riding the peak of Cycle 24 or there is enough remaining Cycle 24 power to finish 100-plus entities on 10m to include WARC spaces like 17 and 12 meters?

Stay thirsty for DX my friends.