Tower Safety

Watch this Video

Amateur Radio Tower Safety Presentation for the Billerica ARS

By Jim Idelson November 9, 2019

It could save you life or the life of your favorite tower climber
It is chock full of solid information and is based on facts.
Click here for the Video

Now how many of us want to change the tide of the numbers lost to tower accidents?

Steve
KG5VK

KG5VK Shack as of December 2019

   KG5VK 

Shack
December 2019

Louisiana QSO Party 2020

2020 Louisiana QSO Party (LAQP)

The 2020 Louisiana QSO Party will run from 14:00 UTC, April 4, 2020 to 02:00 UTC, April 5, 2020

Louisiana Stations work everybody. Non-Louisiana Stations work Louisiana Stations. Multipliers - by BAND and MODE - for Non-Louisiana Stations are the 64 Parishes in Louisiana.

Three (3) new CATEGORY-OVERLAY: have been added: WIRES, TB-WIRES, and POTA. Stations can compete with other stations with similar antennas or those operating Field Day style from a park, campground, or wildlife refuge.  

For complete updated Rules please see http://www.laqp.org

Please make plans now to get on and operate.

Finaly Tower Number 1 at the new QTH

Top 4el M2 40 Meter at 140 ft
Lower Beam M2 6El 20m Long Boom at 125 ft
KG5VK

CWOps 10th Anniversary Celebration

CW Operators’ Club 10^th Anniversary Celebration

January 2020 marks the 10^th anniversary of the CW Operators’ Club (CWops). 

In our ten years of promoting the use of CW in amateur radio communications, we’ve grown to more than 2,400 members worldwide. To honor our members’ devotion to CW and the efforts of many volunteers toward promoting its use and educating new devotees, we’re celebrating with a month-long on-air event in January, 2020. 

To learn more about CWops, visit our Website at https://cwops.org

All radio amateurs are invited to participate in our Celebration. Certificates will be awarded in various categories including certificates for working at least 25 members of CWops.

CWOps Members work everybody. Non-CWOps Members work only CWOps Members.

A number of unique Special Anniversary Celebratory Calls—e.g. K3CWO, GB10CWO or K5N, will be active during the celebration. 

Complete rules and QSL information are available at https://cwops.org/cwops-10th-anniversary-celebration/

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Look for CWops members and special event stations near 28 kHz up from the bottom of each band. We also suggest using the CW Club RBN Spotter at https://rbn.telegraphy.de/