Monthly Archives: May 2016

N1ASA Receives ISS QSL Card

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All Saints Academy (ASA), N1ASA, received a QSL card from the International Space Station (ISS) for digital messages that were successfully received by the ISS and retransmitted to earth by the Packet Repeater, RS0ISS.

RS0ISS QSL

The QSL was dated on 23 April 2016 at 16:51:48 UTC, on 145.825 MHz.

Of course N1ASA will be receiving the most rare of QSLs in the future when ASA students and students from across RI have the first direct radio contact with an astronaut aboard the International Space Station this Friday, May 6.  The pre-event show beings at 11:45 AM, and will conclude shortly after 1 PM.

You may see and hear the event live, beginning at 11:45 AM, by using this link:
livestream.com/accounts/9685187/events/5301163

Free Tickets to attend the event in person are available at:
https://spacechat2016.eventbrite.com

You can follow the latest news on the event by using this link:
http://www.rispacestation.com/

Or click the ISS-News tab on our own webstie

NCRC Earns DXCC !!!

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With the arrival of our 100th contact confirmation, from a CW contact with FY5KE (French Guiana), W1SYE has earned our first DXCC.

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As you can probably guess, DXCC is fairly easy to obtain, after all Willy, W1LY, and Bob, WB4SON, started working on it 72 days ago.  But this is the easiest aspect of DXCC — Mixed (any mode on any band).  Stations can apply for different modes (CW, Voice, Digital, Satellite), and different bands.  There are additional awards for completing DXCC on 5-bands (80/40/20/15/10), as well as 1,000 or more confirmed contacts with different countries on different bands.  The ultimate award is obtaining the DXCC Honor Roll, which requires confirmations from 331 or more DX entities.

Bottom line, the club can continue to work on DXCC for many years to come.  For those that might be interested, a breakdown of the contacts by mode and band is shown below:

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Congratulations to W1SYE for earning DXCC after 71 years!