Posted by DJ5CW on 2008-10-04

Congratulations to Francesco Cozzi, IZ7KHR who was selected for KY1V's Young Hams Contest Program 2008, to take part in the CQWW SSB contest from the 6Y1V contest superstation -- all expenses paid!

Read the whole story at: http://www.6y1v.com/news.htm and background information about the 6Y1V's Youth Program at http://www.6y1v.com/youth.htm. ;

  Posted by DJ5CW on 2008-09-03

Young DXpeditioners On Willis

The crew of VK9DWX wants to invite two young hams who have a passion for Ham Radio, DXing and contesting to take part in the DXpedition to Willis Island in October this year. One young ham from 6th October till 19th October and the other one from 15th October till 28th October.

You can reside in any country in the world, you hold a valid amateur radio license in your country, you have some experience in working pile-ups and you are between 18 and 29.

For qualification you have to send an email to contact@vk9dwx.de which must include an essay of 500 words minimum (in English) describing how you got started in ham radio, who your Elmer was and why you should be selected for this

DXpedition opportunity. Please include also you full name, callsign and home address.

The VK9DWX crew will pay for all expenses except your flight from your home to Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Send us your application now to contact@vk9dwx.de. We will receive applications until September 15th and will make a fast decision.

Update (19. September 2008):
Josh, W4WJF and Rhy, ZS6DXB are the lucky winners. Have fun! ;

  Posted by DJ5CW on 2008-07-30

We have once more moved the network on which our IRC channel is hosted. After a few years on Worldirc, and a few months on Efnet, the final location of #wwyc is now:

irc://irc.wwyc.net/

The information on the WWYC website has been updated to reflect this change, also the Webchat now points to the new channel.

In your IRC client, you only need to change the Network/Server, from Efnet (irc.efnet.org, etc) to irc.wwyc.net and reconnect.

This will hopefully be the final location of our channel!

Thanks to Simon, M0CLW and Michael, BD5RV, who made this possible.;