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   1059  1 January  2026 UTC,     2359 NZDT 1   January 2026.   
   Object:   
   To celebrate the start of the 2026 NZART Centenary Year by making 100 QSOs   
   with amateur radio stations in 24 hours.   
      
      
   All bands including WARC as this is NOT a contest.   
   All modes are permitted.   
      
   Special categories include   
      
   Most Portable stations:Most DXCC Entities:   
   The fastest to work 100 QSOs as judged by the time of their hundredth QSO.   
   Most Modes: For the person who uses the most different modes in makingtheir   
   100 QSOs.   
      
      
   Full details on the new NZART site which Bruce will tell us about in a   
   moment, but the link is in the text edition of this weeks WIA NATIONAL NEWS   
      
      
   sites.google.com/view/zl-amateur-radio-hsistory?usp=sharing   
   (NZART)   
      
   MARCH - Jock White Memorial Field Day   
      
   This annual contest is named to honour Jock White ZL2GX, NZART Contest   
   and Awards Manager for over 40 years, for the service that he gave to   
   NZART during that time.   
      
   Feb 28, Saturday, 1500-2400 NZDT and Sunday March one 0600-1500 NZDT.   
      
   40 and/or 80 metres, PHONE (SSB) and/or CW, 100 watts PEP maximum.   
      
   Stations using two transmitters may operate simultaneously on both bands,   
   however only one transmitter may be operated on a single band at a time.   
      
   Single transmitter stations may operate on one or both bands.   
      
   (nzart.org.nz)   
      
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   MAY:- HARRY ANGEL MEMORIAL SPRINT May 2nd.   
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   NOW LET'S OPEN THE DX WINDOW TO THE WORLD  ------------   
   Listen for Red, operating as TY 5 FR from Cotonou, Benin now through to   
   the 11th of December. Red will be using CW and SSB on 80-10 metres and   
   will participate in the CQ WW DX CW Contest   
      
   Red's home call is DL 1 BUG.   
   (newsline 2507)   
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   A 43 ND is the special callsign for the Royal Omani Amateur Radio   
   Society  to celebrate  Oman National Day  (20-21 November).   
   QSL  via EC 6 DX, LoTW, eQSL.   
      
   Also confirmed to take part in the celebrations are A60MA the   
   Emirates Amateur Radio Society as A 60 OMA individual operators   
   may append a serial number to the A60OMA special callsign and the   
   Bahrain Amateur Radio Society as  A 91 OMA and the  Kuwait Amateur Radio   
   Society as  9 K 9O MAN.   
   (425dxnews)   
      
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   CROATIA   
      
   9 A 169 TESLA   
      
   This is a special callsign that will be used  until 31 December  in   
   celebration of the  169th anniversary since  the birth of Nikola Tesla   
   (10 July 1856).   
      
   QSOs will be uploaded to LoTW,  Club Log, and QRZ Logbook.   
      
   (425dex)   
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   80th anniversary of the Technical University of Sofia operating   
   special event station LZ 80 TUS. On the air now through December 24th.   
   (ard)   
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   REMINDERS NOVEMBER   
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   ZL 100 C is the callsign  celebrating the centenary of NZART   
   the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters which was formed   
   on 16 August 1926.   
      
   The callsign is valid until 6 August 2026.   
      
   QSL via the bureau and LoTW.   
      
   (425dxnews)   
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   To mark the 60th anniversary since the first French satellite, named   
   Asterix, was launched into orbit, on 26 November 1965, members of the   
   Wingles Radio Club (F 4 KLR) will be active as TM 60 ATX on Fridays and   
   Saturdays  between 14 November and 13 December and again on 19-23   
   December.  All SSB and CW QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the   
   bureau; FT8 QSOs will be confirmed via eQSL.   
   (425dxnes)   
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   South Africa.   
      
   The special event stations ZS 100 SARL, ZS 6 SRL and ZS 9 HQ   
   celebrate the 100th anniversary of the South African Radio League, the   
   S.A.R.L. until the end of 2025, so not much longer to work them if you need   
   them in your log.   
      
   (sarl)   
      
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   Celebrating the 70th anniversary of their organization, members of   
   the  International Police Association's Swiss branch will be active as   
   HB 70 IPA between 1 November and 31 December.  Activity will be on   
   various HF bands and the QO-100 satellite.   
      
   QSL via LoTW and eQSL,   
      
   (425dxn)   
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   Well you may not WORK them BUT you MAY hear them.   
      
   Once again Italian radio amateurs have been authorized to use the   
   40 MHz band until the end of the year.   
      
   They are allowed to operate from 40.660 MHz to 40.700 MHz with a   
   maximum power of 10 watts.   
      
   The Italian regulator has given permission until 31 December also   
   for 70.1, 70.2, and 70.3 MHz.   
      
   (425dx news)   
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   Special callsign LA 100 A is active to end of year to mark the 100th   
   anniversary of the first amateur radio two-way contact between Norway   
   and the USA in November 1925.   
      
   QSL directly to LA100A, via the Bureau, or QRZ.com   
      
   (RSGB)   
      
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   REPEATER NEWS   
      
   St George Amateur Radio Societys repeater team have recently completed   
   some repairs and upgrades at VK2RDX Mt Bindo.   
      
   The 2m repeater filters have been refurbished and realigned, with two   
   additional cavities installed to improve filtering.   
      
   Also, thanks to a generous donation of a commercial-grade dual-band   
   antenna, both the 2-metre FM and the 70-centimetre DMR repeaters should   
   provide improved coverage. Signal and coverage reports are welcomed.   
      
   For more information about all of the St George Amateur Radio Societys   
   repeaters, and other activities; visit the website   
   sgars.org   
      
   (sourced to VK2WI news)   
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   WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS --- ASTRONOMY (and Wireless Weather)   
      
   The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) will be conducting   
   a research campaign November 17-22 UTC dates.   
      
      
   Operating frequencies will vary, but all HAARP transmissions will be between   
   2.75 MHz and 10 MHz. Actual transmit days and times are highly variable based   
   on real-time ionospheric and/or geomagnetic conditions.   
      
      
   REMEMBER THIS IS JUST A TEST SO all information is subject to change.   
      
   Scientific goals of these experiments include studies on the effects of   
   ionospheric conditions on high-frequency radio wave propagation and   
   generation and propagation of extremely low frequency/very low frequency )   
   waves. This campaign will also introduce a Rayleigh LIDAR system as a new   
   diagnostic tool for measuring temperature and density at an altitude of 11-85   
   km.   
      
      
   November 22 suggested frequency between 0400-1100 UTC is 3.089, 9.6 MHz   
   tinyurl.com/2ym5tpp4   
      
   WW SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS - COMPUTING   
      
   Ok, well admit it. If you asked us what the first transistorized computer   
   was, we would have guessed it was the TC from the University of Manchester.   
   After all, Dr. Wilkes and company were at the forefront and had built Baby   
   and EDSAC, which, of course, didnt use transistors.   
      
      
   Hackaday, via This week in Amateur radio went on to say :-   
      
   To be clear, we would have been guessing, but what we didnt know at all was   
   that the TC, with its magnetic drums and transistors in 1955, had a second   
   life as a commercial product from Metropolitan-Vickers, called the Metrovick   
   950.   
      
      
   Our text edition of WIA NATIONAL NEWS, best read at wia.org.au has a link to   
   a  simulator inspired by the old machine.   
      
      
   git.sr.ht/~nkali/mv950toy   
      
   The code is in Python, and you can find several programs to run on the   
   simulator, including the venerable lunar lander. If you havent heard of the   
   Metrovick, dont feel bad. Oral histories say that only six or seven were ever   
   built, and they were used internally within the company.   
      
      
   It seems hard to imagine now, but in the 1950s, transistors for computing   
   were actually a disadvantage. The devices were slow. The TC, for example,   
   used old point-contact transistors (200 of them) and 1,300 point diodes. The   
      
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