Op:   DS1TUW Bands:   10M - 80M Modes:   CW & FT8 Qsl Info:   QSL via DS1TUW (direct) Start Date - End Date:   Jan. 18 - Jan. 24 Webpage: https://www.qrz.com/db/8Q7JI Notes: Holiday style operation

IZ2DPX will be active from both PJ7 (Sint Maarten) and FS (Saint Martin) between January 13–21, 2026. While in Saint Martin, he will operate mobile using a 20-meter vertical antenna on the 10–20m bands. From Sint Maarten, he will also be QRV on 6–40m, operating SSB, FT8, and FT4. QSL via Club Log OQRS, bureau, or LoTW.

The Harrison County Amateur Radio Club was fortunate to have a strong signal from the North Pole on Saturday. The ham radio operators had arranged with Santa Claus to make radio contact with them in the lobby of the Rohs Opera House so that children could talk to the jolly old elf on the mic. Each participant was given a commemorative card for making a long range North Pole contact via ham radio. This was not just any old card; this was a QSL card. QSL cards are postcards exc

Ops:   VU2RS, VU24DX, VU3DXA, VU3GDS, VU29AR, EY8MM, DL6KVA, YT1AD, R7KW & DJ5IW Bands:   6M - 160M Modes:   SSB, CW, FT8 & QO-100 ( Focusing on 6M) Qsl Info:   QSL via M0OXO Start Date - End Date:   Jan. 10 - Jan. 22 Webpage: https://www.vu2rs.com/vu7r/

Op:   CE2EH Bands:   6M, 10M, 20M & 40M Modes:   SSB, CW, FT4 & FT8 Qsl Info:   QSL via qrz.com Start Date - End Date:   Dec. 08 - Jan. 08 Webpage: https://www.qrz.com/db/CE2EH

Op:   YI1DZ Bands:   6M - 40M (Probably 60M and 80M) Modes:   SSB & FT8 Qsl Info:   QSL via OM3JW, LoTW, ClubLog, eQSL or QRZ Start Date:   14 December Webpage: https://www.qrz.com/db/Z81D

Contest: ARRL 10-Meter Contest Date:   Dec 13, 0000Z to Dec 14, 2359Z Rules: https://www.arrl.org/10-meter

The Expositor sat down with Radio Amateurs of Canada president, Alan Boyd of Little Current to discuss important changes to the way the organization works with emergency services, especially in the far North. Mr. Boyd is probably best known as the former Manitoulin OPP detachment community services officer where he met most Island youth in the classroom, but over those years he was also a dedicated amateur shortwave radio operator, having qualified for his licence in 1986. “N

Commemorating the 81st anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, members of the UBA Section Bruxelles-Est (ON5UB) will be on the air as OR81NUTS from 13 to 31 December. The special callsign’s suffix, “NUTS”, references General Anthony C. McAuliffe’s famous one-word reply to a German surrender ultimatum during the Siege of Bastogne. Operations will take place on HF, CW, and SSB. The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive on the Western Front in World War II, tak