For 3 Mondays in December, the West Seattle Amateur Radio Club has hosted the new Hams in the area at the West Seattle Senior Center for an in person session during our weekly radio check in (every Monday night at 6:30) on the West Seattle Repeater W7AW. Input frequencies, output frequencies and PL tones can [...]
It was a very successful Field Day for all involved. The Seattle station W7AW logged 980 volunteer hours and had several extra-points visitors and activities. Here's a selection of pictures from across the 3 days. You can't miss the food and hospitality tent run by the club, the food was over the top (thank you [...]
Visit https://www.cqww.com/ for all the details The CQ WW is the largest Amateur Radio competition in the world. Over 35,000 participants take to the airwaves on the last weekend of October (SSB) and November (CW) with the goal of making as many contacts with as many different DXCC entities and CQ Zones as possible.
Geographic Focus: Worldwide Participation: Worldwide Awards: Worldwide Mode: CW Bands: 160m Only Classes: Single Op Multi-Op Max operating hours: 14 hours Max power: HP: >100 watts LP: 5-100 watts QRP: <5 watts Exchange: 4-Character grid square QSO Points: 1 point per QSO plus 1 point per 500 km [...]
Geographic Focus: United States/Canada state/province QSO party Participation: Worldwide Mode: CW, SSB, Digital Bands: All, except WARC Classes: Single Op (CW/SSB/Digital/Mixed)(QRP/Low/High) Multi-Single (CW/SSB/Digital/Mixed)(QRP/Low/High) Multi-Multi (CW/SSB/Digital/Mixed)(QRP/Low/High) School (CW/SSB/Digital/Mixed)(QRP/Low/High) Mobile Single-Op (CW/SSB/Digital/Mixed)(QRP/Low/High) Mobile Multi (CW/SSB/Digital/Mixed)(QRP/Low/High) Rookie (CW/SSB/Digital/Mixed)(QRP/Low/High) Youth (<13/13-17)(CW/SSB/Digital/Mixed)(QRP/Low/High) YL (CW/SSB/Digital/Mixed)(QRP/Low/High) Max power: HP: >100 watts LP: 100 watts QRP: 5 watts Exchange: NY: RS(T) + county [...]