Hi Alan, Very good on the 6th VE4 Grid! Haven't tried FT4 as I'm concentrating on two Marine Mobile stations that are only on with FT8 and who are several thousand miles away so I need all the sensiti

The Sao Tome Island DXPedition runs several more days. It it turning out to be the FT8 DXPedition of the year with the vast majority of their QSOs on this mode. S9A was on 20M again this afternoon wit

Hi Ernie, I've started to compose an email to these two errant hams about falling short on the GAPA Submission, but the emails just didn't sit right with me. So too bad for them. Thanks for reminding

Thanks Alan, Yea, huge unequal distributions of radio operators in various provinces definitely make it challenging to accumulate the required number of grids to earn a badge for a particular province

Very Well Done Alan, thanks much! 73, Rich, K3VAT

Very Nice Alan! Thanks for originating the New Clip. 73, Rich, K3VAT

Ken, For this FT8 activity (and virtually all other special event stations), there are no explicitly defined 'sub-bands', just the conventional recommended frequencies as listed in the K1JT WSJTx prot

FT8 DX Contest 2019 Rules 1 – Date Begins: 13-April-2019 | 12:00 UTC Ends: 14-April-2019 | 12:00 UTC 2 – Bands and mode 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 meters on FT8 mode. Any station may work any other station

Hello GAPA'ians: This is the first real FT8 only DX contest sponsored by the European FT8 Club, and an opportunity to pickup some new grids/prefixes ! Here is the link for the rules, hours, exchange,

Have you ever worked a new, somewhat elusive or rare grid, only to find that the station you worked does not QSL in any manner whatsoever: no LoTW, no eQSL, no paper QSL. Any there is no email address

Hello There are several grids in the state of Texas that are quite difficult to work, primarily because there are just too few ops. Among these "semi-rare" grids are: DM71; DM85, 86; DM90, 91, 94; DL8