The mobile shackOperating from Iceland was easy and fun. Since returning home, several emails have trickled in from people who are either going or want to go to Iceland, all generally asking the same questions regarding travel to the country with radio gear.Here are my answers to those questions.Are American hams allowed to operate in Iceland?Yes, and easily. This page contains all you need to

Six days ago, Vitaly RN3ANT announced that Russia is suspending its participation in the international WWFF program due to:Discrimination of Russian radio amateurs, “amendments” to Russian laws, Russophobia and inaction of the WWFF-Committee.Subsequently, the RFF website will be fundamentally rebuilt. The Russian Flora and Fauna program exists and continues to operate, the actual RFF reference

The one-man FT4GL DXpedition on Glorioso is ground-breaking.As Wayne N0UN notes on his blog (and others elsewhere), the single operator has been making FT8 contacts for over 134 hours straight, making digital contacts on multiple bands simultaneously.This is discernible by looking at each days' activity on ClubLog. Click on the "Total QSOs" for a particular day, then mouse over the hourly

There's a KX2 in that camera bag.I know you can see it...but the only thing airport agents see is camera gear.Nikon, Canon, Olympus...they all make camera gear - nothing to see here.After my trip to Ecuador last year, several people emailed to ask me about getting my gear through customs. Any problems?Ditto with a recent Caribbean cruise and a trip to Nova Scotia.My radio at the time was either

Drone photo of courthouseThe city of Vicksburg Mississippi is a study in stereotypes - and in contradictions to those stereotypes.We road-tripped there a few days ago and spent three nights in an old B&B that, at one time, housed Jefferson Davis and other southern statesmen from a bygone era.There are a number of museums in town and you can easily determine the sympathies of the organizations

With CQ Magazine now having given up the ghost, I find myself wondering if (or how) it might be possible for an individual or entity to pick up the where CQ left off. The magazine contained many excellent articles and topical columns that I'll miss.A unique way of distributing a magazine, in a way I have not seen elsewhere, comes from Roadrunner magazine.Roadrunner is a magazine about

The website for CQ Magazine has been down for several days now and users of their domain for email addresses now report that those addresses are no longer functional.One columnist reports that they have been on hold since October 2023. The demise of CQ Magazine has been a long time in the making with intermittently missed issues being the norm for over four years now. I had an online