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Ten Meter RTTY Contest

Propagation really helps on 10 meters. Last year's contest was quite limited with just a few stations even visible on the bands. This year...

Confessions of a Paper Chaser

My CQ DX Award for confirming two-way communication with 100 countries on RTTY (radio teletype) arrived this week. I confess that I collect paper...

73+55

The other day I ran across a listing of CW abbreviations and spotted 55, which stands for "best success." So I have decided to...

Monitor Update

I recently updated the position of my ham shack monitor. Reading through some email groups, I saw a lot of advice about monitor placement...

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