Ham Radio Amateur Radio Articles

This is basic information for people with no prior knowledge of Amateur Radio, DX and Radiosport.

Video FY5KE French Guiana Contest Station.

Niue is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, 2,400 kilometres northeast of New Zealand, east of Tonga, south of Samoa, and west of the Cook Islands.

While the majority of Amateur Radio operators choose only a few of the HF bands, below 30 MHz, to participate in contests, there are some broad-minded enthusiasts who go beyond this limit and have as much fun on VHF, UHF and SHF bands.

Video TO6OK Mayotte Island DX Pedition. 27 September 2018.

Little Diomede is a small island of 7.3 km2 in the middle of the Bering Strait. It lies 36 km west of mainland Alaska and 3.9 km east of Big Diomede Island, the easternmost point of Russia.

Video BG7JJW in CQ WW WPX SSB Contest 2019.

This is our third expedition from the series "Legends of the Arctic". Last year we sailed on the yacht Apostol Andrey, under the command of Nikolai Andreevich Litau, almost 4,000 ml.

Mayotte (FH) is a French overseas department located in the northern part of Mozambican channel in the Indian Ocean is one of the four major islands of the Comoro group of islands, but it does not belong to the Union of the Comoros (a DXCC country D6).

14-member international team undertake long voyage to Ducie Island from Mangareva, French Polynesia, aboard the MV Braveheart.

Video V6J Ta Island, Micronesia IOTA DX Pedition, IOTA OC - 254, 18 - 31 July 2018.

Video 3B7A DX Pedition to Saint Brandon Island, IOTA AF - 015.

Pavel, OK1AW is 73 years old and lives in a small town about 10 miles from the famous spa in western Czechia, called Karlovy Vary, but which was also well known as Karlsbad in the past.

The Moravian Contest Group is small and young, but very dynamic and bold.

The call sign OK4MM appears from time to time on this DX News portal, as well as on some other DX related web pages, mostly announcing activities from islands of the IOTA programme.