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RADIO OPERATORS COMMEMORATE WORLD AMATEUR RADIO DAY APRIL 18th ACTIVATING ISLAS DE CABRAS (GOATS ISLAND) IN TOA BAJA PUERTO RICO A group of Amateur Radio operators will be mounting a station this Friday, April 18 from Isla de Cabras, celebrating World Amateur Radio Day, date in which after its inaugural meeting in Paris in 1925, the International Amateur Radio Union - IARU was created. It's the entity that foresees the interests of the different amateur radio organizations around the world, and is the holder of an award and an annual international contest. In its 83 anniversary, this year's theme is "Amateur Radio: a Foundation for Technical Knowledge" Many countries celebrate this day with on-the-air activities and special events. Last year Spain, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Poland activated radio stations to be part of this celebration and giving out special awards for the occasion. For more info go to http://www.iaru.org/worldAmRadioDay.html.In Puerto Rico there is double reason to operate this day, besides making contacts with other stations locally and around the world, "we will be in Isla de Cabras to qualify it in a program called US Islands which last year included the United States territories an possessions, having Puerto Rico, being an island, other islands around each of them having their own number" - said Alexis Cardona - WP3ZN, one of the participants. The island has the number PUR-012 and at least 25 contacts are needed to qualify it for the program. Up to now only Puerto Rico and Vieques are qualified from a list of 43. To see the list go to http://usislands.org/directory/directory.html#PR"This is a good opportunity to make field operations in a hobby that deals with communications, because from there, one may get job opportunities in the broadcast radio and TV media" - commented Edgar Garcia - NP4EG, another of the participants. The callsign used will be KP4DJ and will operate in CW, SSB and possibly digital modes. QSL info via WP4F -- Daniel Ponce ( www.qrz.com/callsign/wp4f)We invite all those who want to see an Amateur Radio Station on the air and also learn about the island park facilities and its history. Call sign: KP4DJ Operating Time: 1400 to 2400 UTC Operating Date: 18 April 2008 FOR MORE INFORMATION: Ángel Luis Santana, WP3GW Public Information Officer ARRL - Puerto Rico Section (787) 387-9813 wp3gw@arrl.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- ARRL Southeastern Division Director: Greg Sarratt, W4OZK w4ozk@arrl.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is being sent to you via the ARRL Members Only Web site. 04.14.2008
The For Sale or Want To Buy Page by Bob WA4IDI I had some good feedback this week on the activity of our For Sale page. One of our advertisers wrote that he has a for sale deal pending with a ham in Munich GE so our page is working and getting some wide spread reading. Your webmaster is also writing an article for a web site in CA that specializes in Novice License experiences at the request of that sites webmaster. So you see web sites do get readby more people then we think.
Web Site News from Jeff Mathews, KG4DHZ and Bob Ledford, WA4IDI The DBARA web site mail program has been getting blasted really hard by someone that is on the Yahoo Group or using the web site mail links. Jeff has had to cripple most of the mail to links as a pre-cautionary step to find out who or what is making the problem. Members can help us find the cause by making sure that your desktop or laptop computer is not infected or harboring a spyware/malware/virus by keeping your own equipment clean. I hate to run my anti-virus, spyware programs as it takes almost 2 hours and 45 minutes to run one then the same amount of time to run the other as I have some 7,000 files to scan but I do it weekly so if I can do it so can you.
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