Guide to December 2023 Ham Radio Contests
As we bid farewell to another year, it’s a good time to reflect on ways we can improve our ham radio capabilities or maybe even add another pursuit, such as […]
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Receivers and Busy Bands
Beginning in early fall, weekends start to fill up with “the majors”—contests that attract thousands of stations which fill the bands with strong signals. November and December are the most […]
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Holiday Gift Guide (Part 3): Shortwave and Weather Radios
While ham radio equipment remains the bread and butter of DX Engineering, you’ll find many other items at DXEngineering.com sure to please the amateur radio enthusiasts on your holiday shopping […]
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Overview of Active and Upcoming DX Engineering-Sponsored DXpeditions
It’s a great time to be a DXer! While the pandemic put the brakes on most DXpeditions, 2023/2024 has opened the floodgates on activations that are happening daily from every […]
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DX Engineering Gear Making the Trip to Clipperton Island in January 2024
Scheduled for mid-January 2024, the TX5S Clipperton Island DXpedition will mark the first major activation of this 38th ranked DXCC entity—an uninhabited ring-shaped French territory in the eastern Pacific Ocean—in […]
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Watch Three Members of the Swains Island W8S 2023 Team Discuss this Rare Activation (VIDEO)
Are you ready for the W8S October 2023 Swains Island DXpedition? DX Engineering CEO Tim, K3LR, had the opportunity to talk with three members of the 10-operator international team of […]
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It’s All in the Cards! QSL Cards from Swains Island
Ranked as the 27th Most Wanted DXCC Entity per Clublog as of September, Swains Island will be the hot spot for DX chasers the world over when this rarely visited […]
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Ham Radio Tech: When 450 Is Not 450
450…where have I heard that number before? Seems familiar…Oh, right…450Ω window line! Yes, that’s the nominal characteristic impedance of the black plastic-coated parallel conductor transmission line like DX Engineering’s DXE-LL450-CTL. […]
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DX Engineering Provides Gear for Rare Activation of Swains Island in October
The much-anticipated 2023 W8S Swains Island DXpedition, scheduled to begin October 4 and run for about two weeks, is just around the corner. Ten operators from Germany, the Netherlands, and […]
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W8S—An International DXpedition to Swains Island
Motto: “What do you expect to find there? Well, if I knew, I wouldn’t go there!” Jean Jacques Cousteau On October 4, 2023, a group of 10 ham operators from […]
