The Ukrainian DX contest is this weekend. W4HOD will be working SSB for the contest.  We should have a new 20 meter antenna up for this contest.

Worked All Europe (WAE) RTTY contest is this month, the second full weekend. Saturday, November 14, 2009, 0000 UTC until Sunday, November 15, 2009, 2359 UTC. This will be a new contest for W4HOD. It should be lots of fun.

In 2008, W4HOD won the plaque for Multi-Multi SSB in the Alabama QSO Party. Shown is club member Don Huey, KA4NDY receiving the award from Jim Johnson, KC4HW of the Alabama Contest Group.

At least I wasn’t last! AD4EB HP JIM TN 51 71 30 151 39 5,989 N4ZZ HP DON TN 46 53 29 128 34 4,352 WF7T LP BRAD TN 40 44 3 87 31 2,697 K1GU LP NED TN 0 52 26 78 31 2,418 W4HOD(AA4YL) LP CHER AL 0 20 14 34 16 544 […]

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Call: W4HOD Operator(s): AA4YL Station: W4HOD Class: SOAB LP QTH: Loachapoka, AL Operating Time (hrs): 20 Summary: Band  QSOs  Zones  Countries —————————— 160: 80: 40:  10      7        7 20:  31     14       29 15:  20     53       20 10: —————————— Total:  61 […]

The recent K4M DXpedition knows a great digital interface. Look on top of the Icom transeiver. They are using a RigExpert interface. The same interface used by W4HOD with great success. By the way, no RTTY contester at W4HOD chews tobacco.

Call: W4HOD Operator(s): KA4PKB AA4YL Station: W4HOD Summary: Band QSOs ———— 80: 1 40: 47 20: 65 15: 10: ———— Total: 113 Total Score = 4,106,455 Club: Alabama Contest Group Comments: First time for W4HOD in this one. The different scoring made for a very interesting contest. Thanks for all the contacts.Class: MO/Single Xcvr LP […]

The State of Alabama is now issuing a newly designed amateur radio tag. The new tag was issued beginning in May. The design is a fairly radical departure from the former design, but I think it looks very good To receive your amateur radio tag, just present your FCC license to your local motor vehicle […]

On a recent visit to the Loachapoka post office to check the W4HOD mail, there were a stack of QSL cards waiting. KA4PKB and AA4YL spent a couple of hours filling out cards and stuffing envelopes. We mailed 17 DX cards though the ARRL outgoing bureau. It cost $2.50 and the postage on the envelope, not […]

CQ Worldwide DX Contest, RTTY Call: W4HOD Operator(s): KA4PKB, AA4YL Station: W4HOD Class: M/S LP QTH: Loachapoka, AL Operating Time (hrs): 36 Summary: Band  QSOs  Pts  State/Prov  DX   Zones ———————————————— 80:       11    11       9            1     3 40:      197   317      40          40   18 20:      151   347      24          45    17 15:       65    178       4           29    14 10: —————————————– […]

KA4PKB and AA4YL will be operating the CQ WW RTTY contest this weekend. We are using the club call W4HOD and operating from the QTH of KA4PKB. The R8 is up and we have a long wire for 75 meters. We are using the IC-746Pro, RigExpert Plus and logging with Writelog. Hope to see you […]