404 — Fancy meeting you here!

By Gary, PJ7EE. Lately, there have been a few hams who have operated from PJ7, Sint Maarten, only under CEPT guidelines. Although Sint Maarten is CEPT, a permit from the Bureau of Telegraph and Post is required. Here is a letter from Mr Sydney DeWeever (BTP) clarifying the subject of CEPT on Sint Maarten. I […]

Randy, K5ZD will be active from St Kitts during March 22 to April 1, 2026. Participation in the CQ WPX SSB contest as V47T – outside of the contest he will sign V4/K5ZD. QRV on 80-10m; CW & SSB. V47T via W2RQ. V4/K5ZD via LoTW.

[UPDATE @ 1250Z] – 164,500 QSOs and 31,600 different callsigns after 10.9 days of operation. Still 9 days to go. Yesterday around 1700z there was a generator outage (30 minutes). Apart from that, operation is going smoothly. About missing QSOs / busted callsigns: We will work on those messages on or after Monday. ARRL SSB […]

[NEWS UPDATE] – by S21WD team. During the past two weekends, the S21WD team carried out our final hardware and systems test at our logistics headquarters hosted by DG8MG. The objective was to assemble the complete station as planned for Bangladesh, operate all components in parallel, and validate stability under realistic multi-operator conditions. Both Spiderbeam […]

Paula OK2YL and Vlad OK2WX will be active from Belize as V31YL & V31WX from March 9th to 22nd; holiday style, SSB-CW and FT8. QSL via I8KHC. NOTE:  Paula will participate in the week-long YLWWA activity (March 9-15).

[UPDATE] by T8OK team. We’ve been experiencing several power outages, and we’ve made a minor adjustment to our transmitter’s power supply. We’re looking for interference, as it’s nearly impossible to work CW and SSB; the interference is overwhelming. We’ve finished building the 40m vertical, 30m vertical, 15/20/10m Spiderbeam, 17m Yagi, and 12m Yagi. [QRV] – […]