Wow! what a busy weekend that was. The 26th IMD arrived and on Friday 19TH I visited the store where the larger items of equipment are kept accompanied by Mike G1NRF and James M6ZXZ. My car was already very full with transceiver boxes, psu’s military masts and the like so the other two vehicles were […]
Quite a good response to my plea made a few days back to get confirmation e.mails from the regular IMD groups. Last ditch attempt to elicit responses from those yet to confirm as will not have time to update the website if notification os received after midday Thursday. As the World likes to see the […]
We confirm that IY0IMD from Civitavecchia – Forte Michelangelo – Italy will be on the air for the 2013 event. Best 73 de Stefano I0LYO and Roberto IZ0CHK. […]
Logbook of The World users will be pleased to know that the new Trusted QSL software is now available for downloading from the ARRL Logbook of The World page. […]
Due to the continued e-mail outage at ARRL Headquarters, a separate external e-mail address has been created specifically for amateurs with questions concerning Field Day.arrlfd@yahoo.com will be available until ARRL e-mail service has been restored. You can also call with Field Day questions at 860-594-0328. […]
As of 9:30 AM EDST, e-mail service to and from ARRL Headquarters has been down for more than 24 hours and is not working at the present time. Work is continuing to restore service as soon as possible, but at the moment there is no specific estimate of when service will be completely restored.Updates regarding e-mail restoration will be posted here as availab […]
The FCC this week extended until July 24 the deadline to file reply comments in its proceeding to allow unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (U-NII) devices at 5 GHz. The FCC in February sought comment on making available an additional 195 megahertz of spectrum in the 5.35-5.47 GHz and 5.85-5.925 GHz bands for U-NII use. Reply comments are response […]
Every year AMSAT promotes a satellite version of Field Day during the ARRL annual operating event which is held on the 4th weekend in June. This year Field Day will take place from 1800 UTC on Saturday June 22, 2013 through 2100 UTC on Sunday June 23, 2013 […]
It was announced that the 4M5DX Group is planning a DXpedition to Aves Island (NA-020) sometime between November 1st, 2013, and February 28th, 2014 […]
ARRL Field Day (22-23 June) will see the activation of Sugar Island (USi MI-020R, Not IOTA, WW Loc. EN76VK), Saint Marys River, Chippewa County, Michigan […]
A team of amateur radio operators from the Spanish Aitana DX Group (ADXG) will be active from Octavio, YN2N, radio shack in Nicaragua between October 1-16th. The callsign will be announced soon […]
Today 29th April Trader Booking Forms have become available for download from the site. Please visit the Trader Enquiries page within the Contacts Tab of the site. Ensure you also print the separate terms of trading .pdf […]
New Show & Shine 2013 As ever there will be a Show & Shine competition on the last full day of the show, Sunday. However for 2013 we have revised the classes to allow everyone to vote for the “Most Wanted ” class. Classes are as follows Class 1 Super class (All winners from previous year classes) Class 2 Standard Air Cooled Car 1936 – 1978 Class 3 Mo […]
Courtesy of Steve G7VOH (one of my amateur radio colleagues – Kernow Photography) here is a set of photos taken around the Trade area of Jamboree 2012. Many thanks Steve, much appreciated. Unfortunately I did not manage to get around the trade area personally but having seen the photographs I missed a treat as John […]
After a very wet and windy Friday & especially Saturday at least we awoke to some blue sky and sunshine on Sunday 26th August for the show and shine. The sun did not stay with us though and it became overcast but managed to stay dry for the last day of the show. Entries were […]
As ever Alan engaged his audience at the Jamboree as can be seen here during his rendition of the Beatles Classic Yellow Suibmarineoops! Campervan ! […]
Good to see Ty becoming an accepted regular feature of the Jamboree as he works so well with Alan the Belfast Busker. Alan had finished his stint and can be seen dancing here with the crowd as Ty plays after the presentation of the Show & Shine awards in the Marquee. […]
Today looking good, high cloud but dry possible light showers. Local forecast for the Weekend also looking pretty good, possible light showers Friday and Saturday but building high pressure and Sunday looking like a nice dry and sunny day. Hope they don’t change their mind. After the heavy rain over the past several months we […]
Site looking good, trade area marked out and ready to welcome the 56 traders booked in to attend (several have already turned up) in addition there are several auto jumble pitches booked. Today we made great progress on a rather nice sunny day with just one very light shower which lasted all of a minute […]
The site owners have become very aware that the post code applying to bulk of the site including the main buildings and trade area has been causing problems with neighbouring properties which share the same code.To circumvent this problem the Stithians Show Committee applied for a post code change and this has now been authorised. […]
Richard is expecting the usual large entry for our show and shine again this year and, in preparation has decided the following. Entries will be registered from 0830 on the Sunday morning and we therefore suggest that anyone camping on site make a special effort to get their vehicles up to the show field early […]