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ARRL President Expects Parity Act House Bill Cosponsorships to Top 100
Soon
Amateur Radio Volunteers Face Fire Threat While Supporting Emergency
Communication
FCC Universal Licensing System, Other Applications to be Down for
Maintenance
FCC Proposes to Fine Ohio Radio Amateur for Malicious Interference,
Failure to Identify
Two Incumbents Face Opposition in 2015 ARRL Director, Vice Director
Election Cycle
Outcome for 5 MHz at WRC-15 Remains in Limbo
IARU Reiterates Commitment to Coordinate Satellites Only Within
International Band Plans
In Brief...
The K7RA Solar Update
Just Ahead in Radiosport
Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions and Events
ARRL President Expects Parity Act House Bill Cosponsorships to Top 100
Soon
ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, expects to see the list of
cosponsors for the US House version of the Amateur Radio Parity Act of
2015 -- H.R. 1301 -- top 100 soon after Congress reconvenes following
its August recess. As of August 27, the measure had attracted 94
cosponsors. A US Senate version of the bill -- S. 1685 -- also has
been introduced. President Craigie again encouraged ARRL members to
urge their congressional delegations to cosponsor the bills.
Summertime ARRL conventions have also been affording more members a
chance to make their voices heard.
"Success doesn't happen by magic," President Craigie said this week.
"Offices on Capitol Hill have told us that without constituent
expressions of support, cosponsorship -- and, eventually, votes --
will not happen."
The identically worded Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015 measures would
direct the FCC to extend its rules relating to reasonable
accommodation of Amateur Service communications to private land-use
restrictions. It would require the FCC to amend its Part 97 Amateur
Service rules to apply the three-part test of the PRB-1 federal
pre-emption policy to include homeowners association regulations and
deed restrictions, often referred to as "covenants, conditions, and
restrictions" (CC&Rs). At present, PRB-1 only applies to state and
local zoning laws and ordinances, and the FCC has been reluctant to
extend the same legal protections to private land-use agreements
without direction from Congress.
At the recent ARRL New England Division Convention, Hudson Division
Director Mike Lisenco, N2YBB (right, seated), helped visitors to send
letters to their US senators and representatives in support of The
Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015. [Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R, photo]
President Craigie said ARRL staff members and officials have helped
members to generate well over 4000 letters to Senators and
Representatives at ARRL conventions this summer. Local radio clubs
have held letter-signing events at their meetings as well. This week,
the ARRL forwarded more than 1000 such letters for hand delivery to
Capitol Hill.
"But we need a lot more member action now, to push our bills ahead,"
she added. "We need letters, phone calls, e-mails from every ARRL
member to our Senators and Representatives. We need every ARRL member
to urge our friends in our clubs, on our nets, and on our social
media, to take 5 minutes today to do something critically important
for the future of Amateur Radio."
AMSAT is also encouraging its members to urge lawmakers to cosponsor
the two bills. The satellite organization has pointed out that
reaching orbiting spacecraft via an appropriate ground station is
something that may be denied to satellite enthusiasts living in
neighborhoods where outside antennas are restricted or prohibited.
The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015 page on the ARRL website has
complete information on how to become involved.
"Capitol Hill needs to hear from every friend of Amateur Radio by the
end of August," President Craigie said. "Every voice, your voice,
makes a difference."
Amateur Radio Volunteers Face Fire Threat While Supporting Emergency
Communication
The North-Central Washington town of Republic touts "air you can't
see" on its website. That's not the case this week. Wildfires in the
US Northwest have not only hampered the air quality and visibility,
but led
The Kettle Complex Fire comes over a ridge on August 13. [Photo
courtesy of InciWeb.gov]
to a Level 2 evacuation order in the Ferry County community of about
1000 residents. That could rise to Level 3. Amateur Radio volunteers
in Ferry County have been on the front lines of the wildfire emergency
there. In Republic, a combination of Ferry County Search and Rescue
(SAR), Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), and ARES/RACES
volunteers have been supporting communication for a shelter housing
some 4 dozen evacuees -- with more to come, according to Ferry County
ARES Emergency Coordinator and RACES Radio Officer Sam Jenkins, WA7EC.
"We are now close to our maximum support level for local volunteers,"
Jenkins told State RACES Officer Monte Simpson, AF7PQ, who also is
ARRL Western Washington Section Manager. "We are now expecting to
operate for several weeks at the Republic High School. The
firefighters say they are going to attempt to defend our emergency
operations center/emergency shelter at all costs," Jenkins added. "We
are standing our ground."
A view of Republic, Washington, via the town's webcam on August 26,
shows how smoke from the wildfires has reduced visibility and air
quality.
In addition to being the Ferry County ARES EC and RACES RO, Jenkins
explained, he also heads the SAR component of the dual Ferry County
SAR-CERT contingent. "I have networked these three units together over
time to increase the effectiveness of our small, poor, but valiant
teams," he told ARRL. At present, he's working under the RACES banner.
Firefighters from several states and British Columbia, Canada, have
been working the Kettle Complex of three fires in Ferry County, which
covered nearly 60,000 acres as of August 26. No injuries have occurred
and no homes have been lost. Support teams from the Washington
National Guard are assisting fire managers to ensure safety. West of
Republic near Omak, the Okanogan Complex at more than 280,000 acres is
now the largest fire complex in the state's history.
An August 26 MODIS satellite image indicates the extent of the
wildfire situation in Washington. [Image courtesy of the USDA Forest
Service]
According to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), wildfires
continue to burn actively across the West. The NIFC reports that 66
large fires -- or complexes -- have burned nearly 1.6 million acres in
11 states. Twelve fires are burning in Washington alone.
Jenkins said his team of volunteers would like to have additional
support, but, he told Simpson, "I would expect that it is asking a lot
for anyone to leave the comfort of their home to travel to a place
where the smoke is so thick you can cut it with a knife, and not know
if they would escape."
Radio amateurs responding to the wildfire emergencies have been using
VHF repeaters as well as HF on 75 and 40 meters, including SSB and
digital modes, and IRLP.
"We are doing our best at doing our thing," Jenkins said. "I am
concerned about what is happening in our sister counties."
FCC Universal Licensing System, Other Applications to be Down for
Maintenance
FCC website maintenance in early September will make the Universal
Licensing System (ULS), the Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS),
the Electronic Document Management System (EDOCS), and other public
applications unavailable for more than 5 days. The Commission said the
outage will begin at 2200 UTC on Wednesday, September 2, and continue
through the Labor Day weekend. The maintenance work should be
completed by 1200 UTC on Tuesday, September 8. During the ULS outage,
it will not be possible to file any Amateur Radio applications.
"[M]ost Commission resources normally accessible through the
Commission's website, including access to all electronic filing
systems and electronic dockets, will be inaccessible for the same
period, with the exception of the Network Outage Reporting System
(NORS), the Consumer Help Center (CHC), and the Disaster Information
Reporting System (DIRS), which will remain available," an FCC Public
Notice said on August 20. "The Commission's website will remain
available, but with reduced content and limited search capabilities."
According to the Public Notice, the FCC will follow its normal
schedule of operation during the maintenance period, but voicemail
will be offline, and most Commission staffers will not have access to
e-mail. Static content webpages on the fcc.gov domain, such as the FCC
consumer guides, should remain available during the outage.
Although the regulatory fee for Amateur Radio vanity call sign
applications will officially disappear on September 3, prospective
applicants will have to wait until September 8 (1200 UTC) -- or until
after the ULS is back online -- to file without paying the fee. The
FCC has told ARRL that the approximately 18-day waiting period for a
vanity call sign to be granted will remain in place "for now."
The FCC will extend filing deadlines for all regulatory and
enforcement filings that fall during the maintenance period. Filings
due on September 2, 3, 4, or 8 now will be due on Wednesday, September
9. "Except for the due dates specified herein, we are not
automatically extending the deadlines for any other comment or filing
periods that will be running during this time period, but requests for
extension of time will be considered consistent with the Commission's
normal practice," the FCC Public Notice said. "To the extent the due
dates for filings to which reply or responsive pleadings are allowed
are affected by this Public Notice, the due dates for reply or
responsive pleadings shall be extended by the same number of days."
Read more.
FCC Proposes to Fine Ohio Radio Amateur for Malicious Interference,
Failure to Identify
The FCC has proposed levying an $8000 fine on a Cincinnati, Ohio,
radio amateur, Daniel R. Hicks, KB8UYZ, who at one point had
volunteered to track down the interference he was causing on a number
of primarily VHF repeaters. In a Notice of Apparent Liability for
Forfeiture (NAL) released on August 20, the FCC Enforcement Bureau
asserted that Hicks intentionally interfered with other Amateur Radio
operators' communications and failed to identify properly. According
to the NAL, an agent from the Bureau's Detroit office first responded
to multiple complaints of interference on various repeaters in April
2014.
"The agent, working with a local amateur group which included Mr
Hicks, was unable to locate the source of the transmission," recounted
the NAL, signed by FCC District Director James Bridgewater. Nearly a
year later, in response to continued interference complaints, an agent
from the Bureau's Detroit office returned to the Cincinnati area to
take another crack at finding the source of the transmissions.
"This time, the agent did not advise the local Amateur Radio group
that he was in the area," the NAL stated. "The agent used mobile
direction-finding techniques to locate the source of the transmissions
to...the address of record for Mr Hicks' amateur station, KB8UYZ."
ARRL Great Lakes Division Vice Director Tom Delaney, W8WTD, in his
role as a spokesperson for the Greater Cincinnati Local Interference
Committee, said at first the interference, which began in early 2014,
was a nuisance, but later it turned obscene and racist. He said his
group was able to track the signals to a particular neighborhood, but
group members were surprised to learn who was behind the interference.
ARRL Great Lakes Vice Director Tom Delaney, W8WTD.
"We did not know, until the FCC actually caught him, who it was,"
Delaney told ARRL. "We had our suspicions. We were very close to
finding the source but were not quite there, but that helped the FCC."
He said Hicks employed a "sophisticated" synthesized voice and very
short transmissions across several repeaters to make him difficult to
pin down.
According to the NAL, the agent monitored transmissions emanating from
Hicks' station for about an hour and heard the station transmit
several recorded messages. "These transmissions prevented other
amateur licensees from communicating over the frequency," the NAL
said. "During the monitoring period, the agent did not hear Mr Hicks
transmit his assigned call sign. The transmissions used the call sign
of another licensee." Delaney said the holder of that call sign had no
idea why Hicks used it.
The FCC said it has determined that the evidence in the case was
sufficient to establish that Hicks caused willful and malicious
interference and failed to identify using his assigned call sign. Read
more.
Two Incumbents Face Opposition in 2015 ARRL Director, Vice Director
Election Cycle
Two incumbents face challenges in the 2015 election cycle for ARRL
Director and Vice Director. Both races are in the ARRL Northwestern
Division. Incumbent Director James Pace, K7CEX, of Centralia,
Washington, will face a challenge from William Balzarini, KL7BB, of
Auburn, Washington. Delvin Bunton, N7QMT, of Vancouver, Washington, is
seeking to unseat Northwestern Division Vice Director Bonnie Altus,
AB7ZQ, of Sheridan, Oregon.
The ARRL Ethics and Elections Committee earlier determined all
candidates for the 2016-2018 term in this year's election cycle to be
eligible and nominated.
Incumbents in four other ARRL Divisions faced no challengers in the
current election cycle and have been declared re-elected. They are
Central Division Director Dick Isely, W9GIG, and Vice Director Kermit
Carlson, W9XA; Hudson Division Director Mike Lisenco, N2YBB, and Vice
Director Bill Hudzik, W2UDT; New England Division Director Tom
Frenaye, K1KI, and Vice Director Mike Raisbeck, K1TWF, and Roanoke
Division Director Dr Jim Boehner, N2ZZ, and Vice Director Bill Morine,
N2COP.
Ballots will be mailed on October 1 to ARRL members in good standing
in the Northwestern Division as of September 10, 2015. Ballots will be
counted under the supervision of an independent auditor, and the
successful candidates will be announced on November 20.
The Ethics and Elections Committee agreed in January to return to
using solely paper ballots, after instituting a hybrid paper and
electronic balloting process in the autumn of 2012. Online balloting
proved popular among those who took advantage of it, but overall voter
participation declined significantly. See August 2015 QST, p 78, for
more information.
Outcome for 5 MHz at WRC-15 Remains in Limbo
With the deadline to submit proposals to World Radiocommunication
Conference 2015 (WRC-15) now less than 2 months away, it's still
unclear how at least one agenda item of importance to the Amateur
Radio community will fare. That is agenda item 1.4, which calls on the
delegates to consider a secondary Amateur Radio allocation at 5 MHz
(60 meters). In the US and in most other countries where amateurs have
privileges there, ham radio has a set of fixed channels at 5 MHz --
not necessarily the same from one country to the next, although most
are common.
As ARRL Chief Technology Officer Brennan Price, N4QX, explained last
spring following the second Conference Preparatory Meeting (CPM), the
agenda item 1.4 proposals at the CPM were "all over the map -- ranging
from no change to an expansive allocation of 5275-5450 kHz, with
explicit suggestions of 15 kHz and 100 kHz in between, and a few
methods with details to be filled in later." As Price summarized at
the time, "[T]here is a wide divergence of opinion, and no certainty
as to the outcome."
In his July 2015 report to International Amateur Radio Union Region 3
Conference to be held this October in Indonesia, ARRL CEO David
Sumner, K1ZZ, said that while the US is "generally supportive" of the
Amateur Radio and Amateur-Satellite services at WRCs and in other
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) venues, "it has been
difficult to gain support from the federal government side for agenda
item 1.4." The ARRL is a member of IARU Region 3 to represent the
interests of FCC-licensed radio amateurs residing in Guam; the
Northern Marianas; American Samoa; Baker, Howland, Jarvis, and Wake
islands; Palmyra Atoll, and Kingman Reef.
When he submitted the report to IARU R3 in July, Sumner had said that
the best ARRL could hope for in the US position was a 25 kHz secondary
allocation at 5 MHz, "and only then if this becomes the CITEL
Inter-American Proposal (IAP)," he explained. CITEL completed its work
earlier this month and will put forward an IAP for a 175 kHz secondary
allocation at 5275-5450 kHz, with support by up to a dozen countries.
That's not a proposal the US or Canada could support, however. Sumner
noted that as of now, only one formal proposal for agenda item 1.4 has
been submitted, and it calls for no change at 5250-5450 kHz. It came
from the Regional Commonwealth in the Field of Communications (RCC),
the regional telecommunications organization made up primarily of the
former Commonwealth of Independent States countries of which Russia is
the largest.
Other regional telecommunication organizations still have not
submitted formal proposals. Sumner said this week that it's not
possible to predict what might happen at the European Conference of
Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) meeting in a few
weeks. CEPT is the umbrella organization for 48 European nations.
"We appreciate the strong support from so many Latin American and
Caribbean administrations and remain hopeful that a favorable
consensus can be reached in Geneva in November," Sumner said. Read
more.
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IARU Reiterates Commitment to Coordinate Satellites Only Within
International Band Plans
In apparent reference to efforts by China's Amateur Satellite Group
(CAMSAT) to coordinate operating frequencies for nine satellites set
to launch in early September, the International Amateur Radio Union
(IARU) has made it clear that it will not coordinate frequencies that
do not conform with accepted band plans for all three IARU regions.
The IARU has informed CAMSAT CEO Alan Kung, BA1DU, that it was only
able to coordinate uplink and downlink frequencies for two of the nine
spacecraft (CAS-3/XW-2D and E), but it has not made that letter
public. CAMSAT has said it plans to launch the nine satellites, all
carrying Amateur Radio payloads, on September 7 or 8.
"The IARU Satellite Adviser, Hans van de Groenendaal, ZS6AKV, and his
advisory panel are mandated to coordinate frequencies within the IARU
band plans for amateur satellites," said a public statement released
on August 20 by IARU Secretary Rod Stafford, W6ROD. "Coordinated
frequencies must comply with band plans that are common to all three
IARU regions. Satellites coordinated outside these plans could cause
interference to terrestrial amateur operations in other regions."
The IARU statement suggested that the popularity and high occupancy of
2 meters "led to a request by satellite builders for coordination
outside the spectrum reserved for satellites in the IARU band plans
(145.800-146.000 MHz), as not enough channels are available to satisfy
their requirements."
The IARU said that, in theory, satellites could be programmed only to
operate while orbiting above their countries of origin, but "because
satellite orbits make it difficult to pinpoint operations, spillover
to other regions may occur during parts of the orbit. Accordingly,
IARU will not coordinate frequencies for satellites which are planned
to operate outside the internationally aligned IARU band plans for
amateur satellites."
The IARU statement noted that its frequency coordination service aims
to "maximize spectrum utilization and avoid possible interference to
other satellites and ground stations." The IARU recommended that
satellite groups "work on a sharing plan or use other parts of the
Amateur Service spectrum designated for satellite operation," and it
suggested resurrecting 10 meters -- once popular as a satellite band,
but largely unused today -- as one possibility for uplink channels.
"The band segment 29,300-29,510 MHz has been used for
Amateur-Satellite downlinks for more than 40 years, beginning with
Australis-OSCAR 5 in 1970 and AMSAT-OSCAR 6, AMSAT's first
communication satellite, in 1972," the IARU statement noted. Just one
amateur satellite actively uses a 29 MHz downlink -- AMSAT-OSCAR 7,
launched in 1974. Conceding that 29 MHz downlink frequencies "would
not be practical for today's very small satellites" due to antenna
size considerations, the IARU said the band could be used for uplinks,
even with small receiving antennas, because Earth stations can run
sufficient transmit power to overcome the disadvantage. "The IARU
Satellite Adviser and his panel believe that the 10 meter band offers
a good alternative to 2 meter uplinks," the IARU said.
AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW.
AMSAT President Barry Baines, WD4ASW, said his organization's Advanced
Satellite Communications and Exploration of New Technology (ASCENT)
initiative is exploring alternatives to address the proliferation of
CubeSats and the resulting pressure on 2 meters and 70 centimeters. He
pointed out that the 200 kHz IARU allocation on 2 meters "is not very
wide" given the number of satellites being launched, but the use of 10
meters is impractical in this era of CubeSats.
"It is incumbent upon the Amateur-Satellite community to develop new
ways of 'keeping Amateur Radio in space' that take advantage of other
bands and provide enhanced services through appropriate technologies,
given the need to find suitable bandwidth for an increasing number of
satellites," Baines told ARRL. He said using digital technology could
provide multi-channel capability, and design work is already under
way. Transitioning to "underutilized amateur spectrum on higher bands
such as 5 GHz and 10 GHz is also a possibility," Baines added,
although he was quick to point out that AMSAT does not intend to
abandon use of 2 meters and 70 centimeters for its own satellite
projects. Read more.
In Brief...
JARL Sets 90th Anniversary QSO Party: The Japan Amateur Radio League
(JARL) will commemorate its 90th anniversary with the JARL 90th
Anniversary QSO Party during the entire month of September (UTC). The
event is open to all radio amateurs and shortwave listeners and
activity will take place on all amateur bands. Certificates are
available to JA and DX stations for working a certain number (either 9
or 90, depending upon category) of participating stations. Stations
exchange call signs and signal reports. Only one contact may be
counted in the event of multiple contacts with the same station
operating from different locations. All stations submitting a log and
summary will receive a Participation Certificate from JARL via the QSL
Bureau. E-mail submissions are welcome. Submit a summary sheet and
logs of one or more categories. The deadline for submissions is
October 30, 2015. Results will be announced in the spring 2016 issue
of JARL News and posted on JARL's website.
Send Your Name (and Call Sign) to Mars! Mars enthusiasts can
participate in NASA's next journey to Mars by adding their names --
and call signs -- to a silicon microchip headed to the Red Planet
aboard NASA's InSight Mars lander, scheduled to launch next year. "Our
next step in the journey to Mars is another fantastic mission to the
surface," said Jim Green, director of planetary science at NASA
Headquarters in Washington. "By participating in this opportunity to
send your name aboard InSight to the Red Planet, you're showing that
you're part of that journey and the future of space exploration." NASA
issued a similar invitation in 2014 for its Orion test flight. So far
nearly 365,000 "boarding passes" have been registered with the InSight
mission. NASA will accept submissions until September 8. Visit the
Mars InSight "Revealing the Heart of Mars" website to get onboard. --
Thanks to NASA
Launch Date Set for AMSAT Fox-1A Set: AMSAT Vice President of
Engineering Jerry Buxton, N0JY, has announced that the Fox-1A CubeSat
will launch on October 8 from California. It initially had been set to
launch in August. Fox-1A will include an FM transponder with an uplink
frequency of 435.180 MHz, and a downlink frequency of 145.980 MHz. The
first phase of the Fox series 1-Unit CubeSats will allow simple ground
stations using handheld transceivers and simple dual-band antennas to
make contacts. The Fox-1 CubeSats will also be able to transmit
continuous telemetry during normal transponder operation. The
satellites will feature 200 bps telemetry in the audio spectrum below
300 Hz. -- Thanks to AMSAT News Service
Postponed VI0ANZAC Operation from Antarctica Set for August 29-30
Weekend: The Antarctic activation of VI0ANZAC that was postponed
earlier this month will take place over the August 29-30 weekend fom
Casey Base in the Australian Antarctic Territory, weather permitting.
The VI0ANZAC activation will be part of the Wireless Institute of
Australia ANZAC 100 program to mark the 100th anniversary of the
famous World War I Battle at Gallipoli. The Wireless Institute of
Australia (WIA), the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters
(NZART), and the Telsiz ve Radyo Amatörleri Cemiyeti (TRAC) in Turkey
have joined forces to commemorate the centenary of the battle. Various
special event stations, some with ANZAC suffixes, have been on the air
during 2015. WIA Vice President and ANZAC 100 Coordinator Fred
Swanston, VK3DAC, has reported that brief tests of equipment and
propagation were carried out recently in preparation for VI0ANZAC, and
tests between Australia and Antarctica demonstrated that both the gear
and propagation were working well. -- Thanks to Wireless Institute of
Australia
The K7RA Solar Update
Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, reports: We saw just one new sunspot group
(AR2403) over the August 20-26 reporting week, but it was a big one,
directly facing Earth on August 23. Average daily sunspot numbers rose
32.3 points to 69.7, while average daily solar flux increased 28.7
points to 119.7.
The average daily planetary A index dropped from 21.4 to 14.7,
compared to the previous 7 days. The most active days were August 23
and 26 when the planetary A index was 28 and 30, caused by streams of
solar wind.
At 0012 UTC on August 27 Australia's Space Weather Services issued a
geomagnetic warning for increased geomagnetic activity expected on
August 27-28 due to a high-speed windstream coming from a coronal
hole. On August 27 expect quiet to unsettled conditions with active to
minor storm periods, and on August 28 look for active to unsettled
geomagnetic conditions.
Predicted solar flux is 125 on August 27-28; 120, 115, and 110 for
August 29-31; 105 on September 1-2; 100 for September 3-5; 95 for
September 6-9; 90, 85, 95, and 100 on September 10-13; 105 for
September 14-19; 120 on September 20-21, and 125 on September 22-24.
Solar flux values drop below 100 on October 3-9.
Predicted planetary A index is 16, 18, 12, 8, and 6 for August 27-31;
5, 8, 12, 15, 10, and 8 for September 1-6; 5 for September 7-11; 12 on
September 12; 15 on September 13-14; 5, 10, 5, 8, and 20 for September
15-19, and 28, 20, 12, and 18 for September 20-23.
NASA issued a new commentary for the current sunspot cycle, this time
with the new V2.0 sunspot numbers, which read higher than the old
standard. Historic numbers are being revised to conform with this new
standard. Using the new numbering system, the maximum in late 2013 of
72 has been revised upward to 101, and the April 2014 peak of 81.9 was
increased to 116.4.
The autumn equinox is September 23 at 0822 UTC, ushering in a new Fall
DX season.
In Friday's bulletin we will look at a revised forecast and reports
from readers. Send me your reports and observations.
Just Ahead in Radiosport
August 29-30 -- ALARA Contest (CW)
August 29-30 -- W/VE Islands QSO Party (CW, SSB, digital)
August 29-30 -- SCC RTTY Championship
August 29-30 -- YO DX HF Contest (CW, SSB)
August 29-30 -- Kansas QSO Party
August 30 -- SARL HF CW Contest (CW)
September 2 -- Phone Fray
September 2 -- CWops Mini-CWT Test
September 2 -- UKEICC 80 Meter Contest
September 3 -- NRAU 10 Meter Activity Contest
See the ARRL Contest Calendar for more information.
Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions and Events
August 30 -- Western Pennsylvania Section Convention, New Kensington,
Pennsylvania
September 5-6 -- Roanoke Division Convention, Shelby, North Carolina
September 11-12 -- W9DXCC Convention, Schaumburg, Illinois
September 11-13 -- Southwestern Division Convention, Torrance,
California
September 12 -- Virginia Section Convention, Virginia Beach, Virginia
September 19 -- San Joaquin Valley Section Convention, Fresno,
California
September 25-26 -- W4DXCC/SEDCO Convention, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
September 26 -- Iowa State Convention, Sergeant Bluff, Iowa
September 26 -- North Dakota State Convention, West Fargo, North
Dakota
September 26 -- Washington State Convention, Spokane Valley,
Washington
October 2-4 -- Mid-Atlantic States VHF Conference, Bensalem,
Pennsylvania
October 3 -- Delaware State Convention, Georgetown, Delaware
October 9-10 -- Florida State Convention, Melbourne, Florida
October 10-11 -- Pacific Northwest VHF Conference, Issaquah,
Washington
October 16-18 -- Microwave Update Convention, San Diego, California
October 16-18 -- Pacific Division Convention (Pacificon), San Ramon,
California
October 17 -- Wisconsin ARES/RACES Conference, Wisconsin Rapids,
Wisconsin
October 18 -- Connecticut State Convention, Meriden, Connecticut
October 23-24 -- Arizona State Convention, Kingman, Arizona
October 23-24 -- Oklahoma State Convention, Ardmore, Oklahoma
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