World Wide Radio Operators Foundation

Tim Duffy, K3LR, presents a look at CTU and Contesting related activities scheduled for the 2015 Dayton Hamvention

CraigThompson, K9CT “Planning Your Contest Station.” Craig will reveal lessons learned from building the K9CT contest station. He takes us through the thought process of finding land, selecting the antennas, and the shack layout.A must for anyone looking to build a contest station or improve their existing station.

The 2013 VK9CZ DXpedition to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands made 51 QSOs with US Zone 5 on 80m. 21 of these QSOs – more than 40 percent – were with stations in Florida. This presentation discusses several possible propagation mechanisms for this grayline event, and concludes that propagation through the dark ionosphere, rather than along the grayline itself, was the responsible mechanism.

Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA, will trace the history of gray line propagation and theorize on a problem with the current explanation that propagation along the terminator is efficient. He will offer an alternative explanation.

Get a look at the 2014 WRTC competition from the top three European teams.