S9BV Update (Feb 18) dear all, you are kindly asked to call me 1 - 3 up, not just 1 up. If several stations of equal strenght call me on the same frequency, I cannot hear. It will go much faster with fewer mistake. When the band opens, there is hundreds of stations on the same frequency and it becomes unreadable.  Band conditions are very different here at the equator compared to what I'm used to. First, the band openes very quickly and closes very quickly almost like ON/OFF.

Op:  K0YA Bands:   6M - 160M Modes:   CW, SSB, FT4 & FT8 Qsl Info:   Qsl via LoTW Start Date - End Date:   Feb. 04 - Mar. 09 Webpage: https://www.qrz.com/db/V4/K0YA Notes:   He will be QRV in the ARRL International DX Contests (CW and SSB) as V47Y

Contest:   North American QSO Party, CW Date:   Jan. 10, 1800Z to Jan. 11, 0559Z Rules: https://www.ncjweb.com/NAQP-Rules.pdf

Op:   DF2WO Bands:   6M - 160M & QO-100 Modes:   CW, SSB, FT4 & FT8 Qsl Info:   Qsl via M0OXO Start Date:   Jan. 22 Webpage: https://www.qrz.com/db/9X2AW Notes: Holiday style operation

Op:  HB9TSW Bands:   HF Mode:   CW Qsl Info:   Qsl via HB9TSW, LoTW or eQSL Start Date - End Date:   Jan. 08 - Jan. 28 Webpage: https://www.qrz.com/db/Z68BG

This is sunspot dedication. Every day in 2025 (clouds permitting), Warren Spreng of Mason, Ohio, pointed his filtered Seestar 50 telescope at the sun and took a picture. "I then layered each day's image over the previous day's to build a composite of the disk with all the sunspots for that month," Spreng explains. This is the result. Click on the image for a high-res view of every sunspot in 2025: Spreng's archive shows at a glance that Solar Cycle 25 is far from over. Every

Op:  W5JON   Bands:   6M - 160M Modes:   SSB & FT8 Qsl Info:   Qsl via W5JON (direct) or LoTW Start Date - End Date:   Jan. 30 - Feb. 03 Webpage:   https://www.qrz.com/lookup/v47ja

DP1POL Update (Jan 2) The activity that was originally planned for January and February 2026 had to be postponed for urgent personal reasons. Hopefully, I will be back in the Southern winter 2026/27. Source: https://www.qrz.com/db/DP1POL DP1POL Op: DL5XL Bands: HF Modes: Mainly CW, but also some SSB and digital modes. Qsl Info:   Qsl via DL1ZBO Start Date - End Date:   Jan. 06 - Feb. 14 Webpage: https://www.qrz.com/db/DP1POL

XT2MAX Update (Jan 6) Radio works well on higher bands. I will not do any lowbands because the noise situation is as it is: bad. Fixed some CW keying issues and it works "ok" now. Doesn't please my taste, but... I'm there if time allows. Source:   https://www.qrz.com/db/XT2MAX XT2MAX Update (Jan 5) We managed to fix the MFJ993RT and found a broken coax as well. So the setup has changed to a 7,3m Vertical, up about 20m agl. See you on the bands! Source:   https://www.qrz.com/d

Op: DL4MM Bands:   HF Modes: CW, SSB & FT8 Qsl Info:   Qsl via DL4MM & ClubLog OQRS Start Date - End Date:   Jan. 11 - Jan. 29 Webpage:  https://www.qrz.com/db/P40AA Notes: He will be QRV in the CQ WW 160M CW Contest

Op: W2APF Bands:   10M - 80M Modes: CW, SSB & FT8 Qsl Info:   Qsl via W2APF or LoTW Start Date - End Date:   Jan. 22 - Mar. 31 Webpage : https://www.qrz.com/db/PJ2/W2APF

Op:   JI1JKW Bands:   6M - 40M Modes:   CW, SSB, FT8 + QO100 Qsl Info:   Qsl via JI1JKW or LoTW Start Date - End Date:   Jan. 02 - Jan. 06 Webpage:   https://www.qrz.com/db/JI1JKW

Contest:   ARRL RTTY Roundup Date:   Jan 03, 1800Z to Jan 04, 2400Z Rules: https://www.arrl.org/rtty-roundup

Op:   JA1XGI Bands:   10M - 160M Modes: CW, SSB, RTTY & FT8 Qsl Info:   Qsl via JA1XGI or ClubLog OQRS Start Date - End Date:   Jan. 22 - Jan. 28 Webpage: https://islandvacation.amebaownd.com/ Notes: He will be QRV in the CQ WW 160M Contest

Members of the Radio Club d'Haïti will be active with the special callsign 4V1L  throughout January (1–31 January) on all bands. This special callsign honors Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière, a courageous Haitian soldier and nurse who fought bravely alongside her husband, Louis Daure Lamartinière, during the Haitian Revolution—most notably at the Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot in 1802. QSL via N2OO. All QSOs will be uploaded to Club Log for easy confirmation: https://clublog.org/logsearc

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Croatian Flora Fauna Amateur Radio Club (9A1WFF), members will be operating using the special callsigns 9A44FF and 9A44FF/p throughout 2025 (from January 1 to December 31). For full details on the Anniversary Award and related activities, visit: https://www.qrz.com/db/9A44FF

When the pandemic exposed how vulnerable her family was living on their isolated Ohio homestead, with spotty internet, unreliable cell service and long distances between neighbors, Polly Givens started thinking about what would happen if everything went dark. “If things had really gotten bad, we would have no idea what was going on, no communication outside of our area,” said Givens, a retired registered nurse and lifelong farmer in Jefferson County, Ohio. So, she turned to a

Op:   F1DUZ Bands:   10M - 80M Mode: SSB Qsl Info:   Qsl via F1DUZ (direct & buro), LoTW, QRZ or eQSL Start Date - End Date:   Jan. 20 - Feb. 10 Webpage:   https://www.qrz.com/db/FG4KH