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January 2013 Features Plus Intro to Digital Modes President’s Report RFI: Practical Examples Radio-Active January Calendar Page 8 Anton James VE7SSD SEPARS Report Field Day 2012 Video Links News and More! Page 3 TThhee MMoonntthhllyy NNeewwsslleetttteerr ooff tth h- ee- SSuurrrreeyy AAmmaatteeuurr RRaaddiioo CClluubb January 2013 Annual Christmas Party CLUB Monthly Meeting Minutes EXECUTIVE 2012-2013 SURREY Forty five SARC members and guests erator training program and Field AMATEUR RADIO CLUB filled the upper room at the ABC Fam- Day. Two entertaining videos of Field PRESIDENT ily Restaurant in South Surrey on Dec. Day came next, prepared remotely in John Brodie VA7XB TELEPHONE & ADDRESS 15th on the occasion of SARC’s annual Palm Springs by Director John (604) 591-1825 Christmas party. Master of Ceremo- Schouten VE7TI, and showing both the VICE PRESIDENT 12144 - 57A Avenue Surrey, BC V3X 2S3 nies for the event was our Rob Gil- humorous and serious sides of this Brett Garrett VE7GM ve7sar @ rac.ca christ VE7CZV who worked through competitive event. Marvin Hunt, an the agenda and kept everything on honorary member of SARC and our SECRETARY EDITOR track. After a social hour and before champion at City Hall, expressed Vacant John Schouten the festivities were formally under- words of appreciation of the City of ve7ti @ separs.net TREASURER way, Director Kelvin VA7KPH started Surrey for the volunteers in SARC and Scott Hawrelak VE7HA things off by introducing the Club Ex- SEPAR who give willingly of their time WEBMASTER ecutive and guests, which included and dedication. We have Marvin to Hiu Yee ve7yxg DIRECTORS Andy Lo (with wife Mary) of Surrey thank for our successful Surrey Com- Kelvin Hall VA7KPH VIA THE WEB Fire Services and Marvin Hunt (with munity grant (which, by the way, has (SEPARS) www.ve7sar.net wife Ruth) representing Surrey Coun- recently been approved to help defray John Schouten VE7TI cil. 2013 Field Day expenses). Marvin of- (Communicator Editor Over the next hour attendees enjoyed fered his support to finding a perma- & Net Manager) nent home for SARC and SEPAR, now a sumptuous buffet lunch consisting of George Merchant that Search and Rescue has moved baked ham, scalloped potatoes, mixed VE7QH (Repeaters) vegetables and salads followed by into the old Sullivan Station Heritage Railway building. Bill Little VA7ZBL dessert of assorted pies. Following (Membership) lunch, John VA7XB presented the Next, the group was treated to a sur- Bill Gipps VE7XS “SARC Year in Review” highlighting prise visit from “Elmer” (Jinty Reid The SARC Communicator is the Fox Hunt, the Langley Good Times VA7JMR) from the Ozarks, who pro- published monthly for Rob Gilchrist VE7CZV Cruise-in and raffle, the repeater in- vided some advice on “how to raise an members of the Surrey Amateur Radio Club. stallation at Concord tower, the op- antenner” with the help of his dog SARC maintains a website at www.ve7sar.net that SEPARS Net SARC Net includes club history, meetings, news and other IN THIS ISSUE Drew VA7DRW information. 1st Tuesday Drew VA7DRW click on the links below Jay VE7OFH Standby SSAARRCC hosts an Amateur Intro to Digital Modes Dixie VA7DIX Radio net each Tuesday January Presentation 2nd Tuesday Jinty VA7JMR evening at 8 PM. Please Alan VA7BIT Standby Radio-Active tune in to the VE7RSC Anton James VE7SSD repeater at 147.360 MHz 3rd Tuesday Rob VE7CZV Anton VE7SSD Plus (+600 KHz) Tone=110.9, RFI: Real World Examples Peter VE7PGX John VA7XB (optional Tone Squelch SEPAR Report 4th Tuesday 110.9) also accessible on QRM Dixie VA7DIX Standby IRLP node 1980 and Echo- News You Can Lose link node 496228. On UHF January SARC Calendar 5th Tuesday Jinty VA7JMR Bill VE7XS President’s Report we operate a repeater on Want a turn at Net Control? Contact the SARC Net Manager 443.775MHz (+5Mhz) Tone=110.9 Coming soon, ve7ti @ separs.net a repeater at 224.000MHz (-1.6MHz). - 2 - January 2013 “Yep”. Bill Gipps VE7XS introduced the While all were complimentary about the annual achievement awards, presented by buffet lunch and the general atmosphere, DOWN Bill Little VA7ZBL, George Merchant VE7QH on the negative side we received comments THE LOG... and Brett Garrett VE7GM. Brett went on that the poor acoustics at this venue along to outline some thoughts for Field Day with excessive noise from the cash register planning. area detracted from the experience. The steep stairs are also a problem for some of SARC Monthly Meetings our members and guests. As a re- CLUB sult, Jinty VA7JMR and Dennis 2nd Wednesday (Sept-Jun) EXECUTIVE VE7DGJ have volunteered to investi- 1900 hrs local at the Emergency 2012-2013 gate alternative venues for next Management BC PREOC, 14275 96th Avenue, Surrey, BC year, with the hope that these an- noyances can be eliminated. Weekly Club Breakfast John VA7XB Friday at 0800 local ABC Country Restaurant at 600 - 7380 King George Blvd. Surrey SARC Net Tuesday at 2000 hrs local on 147.360 MHz (+) Tone=110.9 The draw for door prizes over the next 30 minutes by Jinty Reid SEPARS Net VA7JMR and Joyce Robertson VA7JCE provided almost everyone Tuesday at 19:30 hrs local on 147.360 MHz (+) Tone=110.9 present a gift of some kind from the large array of offerings. Announcements & News SEPARS Monthly Workshop Third Thursday, 1900-2130 local Rm. 214, 13569 - 76th Avenue, Surrey. SEPARS Training Field Day 2012 Videos Fourth Saturday, 0830 local, Firehall #1, 88 & 132nd Street, http://separ.shutterfly.com/pictures Surrey On the Web ve7sar.net Between newsletters, watch The grand finale was the draw – available your e-mail for announcements only to licensed hams – for the Baofeng of events, monthly meetings handheld radio, done in reverse fashion and training opportunities. with the last ticket drawn the winner. The These announcements can last ticket out was held by John VA7XB who also be found on our web page, declined to accept, leading to another or via: draw won this time by Kelvin VA7KPH who Twitter also declined. The third and final draw was @ve7sar won by Rick Law VE7GMO who generously gave away the radio to a new ham, Sean Photos Chen VA7CHX (see cover). All went away Web Albums happy. Many thanks to Jinty VA7JMR and Joyce VA7JCE for organizing a great party and to all those who donated door prizes. - 3 - SARC Communicator January 2013 F E A T Next Meeting Beginners Digital Modes U R E At the next meeting on January 9th, John MacFarlane will once it has been set up to run PSK31, a computer can be introduce the audience to the digital modes. These have used to explore a variety of digital modes. become very popular in recent years owing to the advent Aside from a standard radio transceiver, very little of computer soundcards which can process digital signals equipment is required to use PSK31. Normally, an older very efficiently. We’ll examine a couple of the more PC and a few cables will suffice and many PSK31 software common digital modes, though there are many others out applications are free. Many operators now use a there. commercially available interface/modem device (or PSK-31 "nomic") between their computers and radios. These devices incorporate the necessary impedance matching Phase-shift keying or PSK is a method where by characters and sound level adjustment to permit the sound card are entered via keyboard and transmitted by radio. The output to be injected into the microphone input, the process is very efficient, requiring very little power and radio's audio output to be sent to the sound card input, being very efficient on bandwidth, consuming only about and also handle the radio's transmit-receive switching. 30 Hz. Recently introduced interfaces also incorporate their own A PSK31 operator typically uses a single sound card, and can therefore be powered and run from sideband transceiver connected to the sound card of a PC the PC via a single USB connection. running PSK31 software. When the operator enters a RTTY message for transmission, the software produces an audio tone which sounds, to the human ear, like a continuous Radioteletype (RTTY) is a telecommunications system whistle with a slight warble. This is then fed through consisting originally of two or either a microphone jack or an auxiliary connection into more electromechanical teleprinters in different the transceiver, where it is transmitted. locations, later superseded by personal computers (PCs) running software to emulate teleprinters, connected From the perspective of the transmitter, this amounts to by radiorather than a wired link. Radioteletype evolved little more than somebody whistling into the microphone. from earlier landline teleprinter operations that began in However, the software rapidly shifts the phase of the the mid-1800s. The US Navy Department successfully audio signal between two states (hence the name "phase- tested printing telegraphy between an airplane and shift keying"), forming the character codes. These phase ground radio station in 1922. Later that year, the Radio shifts serve the same function as the two tones used in Corporation of America successfully tested printing traditional RTTY and similar systems. telegraphy via their Chatham, Massachusetts, radio To decode PSK31, the received audio whistle from the station to the R.M.S. Majestic. Commercial RTTY systems transceiver's headphone output is fed into the sound were in active service between San Francisco and card's audio input, and the software decodes it. The Honolulu as early as April 1932 and between San Francisco software also includes a user interface on the PC, which is and New York City by 1934. The US military used used to display the decoded text and manage the radioteletype in the 1930s and expanded this usage during software configuration. World War II. From the 1980s, teleprinters were replaced The use of PSK31 does not require exclusive use of a by computers running teleprinter emulation software. dedicated computer. When it is not running the PSK31 RTTY is very popular among contesters and there are program, the station computer can still be used for several contests dedicated to the digital modes. normal utilities. Because PSK31 was developed for use If you want to become more familiar with what these through a computer's sound card, many programs have modes sound like, visit the Digital Mode samples website since been created to use the same technology for other at URL: http://www.kb9ukd.com/digital/ modes, such as RTTY, Hellschreiber, Olivia MFSK etc. So, John MacFarlane VE7AXU will be the featured speaker at SARC’s January 9th meeting, on the topic of digital modes using Ham Radio Deluxe and FLdigi software. - 4 - January 2013 Radio-Active Jinty Reid VA7JMR Anton James VE7SSD Anton was born in has served as President, 1956 in Trinidad Secretary and Treasurer. where he has spent His most enjoyable ham much of his life. radio events are; IRLP, He is the 4th child Field Day and Fox Hunting of 5 children, 3 of which he is in charge boys and 2 girls. each year. In the year His father was 2000 he met Brenda and always interested her cat called “Kitty” in ham radio and (who since has sadly encouraged his passed away) and the 3 children to take up became a family. Brenda the hobby, is Anton’s dental and however, only office assistant in his dental practice. For 4 years when Anton and an older SARC membership was smaller the couple put on the SARC brother pursued annual Christmas Party. the interest and later obtained their ham radio license. In 2007 Anton was awarded the Inaugural Amateur Radio There is also an uncle in Trinidad who is a ham radio Operator of the Year Award by SARC. Anton’s present operator. radio is an ICOM 2100. He also has an HF Yaesu 857 which In 1981 at the age of 23 Anton passed his ham radio sadly is still in the box and he would dearly love to get it course and became a licensed radio operator with the call set up and running. Besides ham radio, Anton enjoys sign of 9Y4EE. His first radio was a Yaesu FT101 tube radio sailing and owned a Fireball vessel in Trinidad which and his first contact after he had a license was to Cuba. became his “weekend wife”. Anton states that he is Anton excelled in the Sciences which led him to pursue a looking for opportunities to do more sailing here in the career in dentistry. He went to England at the age of 18 lower mainland and anyone needing a crew member where he received his degree in dentistry at the please call him, hint hint !! Another activity that he is University of Birmingham in 1979. After this he returned heavily involved in is a real estate investing club called to Trinidad and stayed there until 1989 when he W.I.N (Wealthy Investor Network). emigrated to Labrador, Canada. The climate and culture Finally, Anton is an avid educator ; in dentistry, with his there was a challenging adjustment. Having his patients, and W.I.N. He went on a Dental Volunteer Trinidadian ham radio license recognized in Canada was Mission to the Philippines for 2 weeks in March 2010 problematic so Anton, undaunted, took his ham radio where he performed dental surgery, removing 1,500 teeth exam again and got his license for the second time. In ouch ! He is planning on another dental mission, this time Labrador he took up ice fishing, snowmobiling and curling to Cambodia. He and Brenda are also planning on taking a brrh! Anton was happy when he was able to contact his Mediterranean cruise in 2013. mother, then living in Richmond BC, by phone patch which allowed him to have free calling. Anton is a stickler for detail and likes things done right. He is a hard worker, likes to mentor others but prefers to In 1990 at the age of 34 years of age Anton moved to be a “backroom” person and not to be in the limelight. Richmond BC to be closer to his mother. In 1994 he moved His partner Brenda states that he is young at heart and to Delta and again in 1998 to Surrey where he joined often “goofy”. Thank you Anton for the work that you do SARC. His new call sign became VE7SSD (‘for Sweet Sugar in SARC. Daddy”) His mentor in learning about Field Day was Victor Medway, now deceased, and later Anton took over the role of organizing that event. During his time in SARC he - 5 - SARC Communicator January 2013 Tech Talk Washing Line—Wire Reel Antenna I found these washing lines in a local DIY store, but they are also available on e-bay. You can easily open them by holding the reel in the palm of one hand with the winding spool facing upwards. Grip the plastic surround around the reel with the other hand and rotate it anticlockwise to unscrew the two halves. Replace the washing line with some thin wire. With care, I can get about 33m / 100ft of 0.7mm diameter wire on a single spool. Keep the wire under tension by running it through your fingers when winding the wire back in. This makes it spool more evenly. An alligator clip on the end of the wire makes it useful as either an antenna or counterpoise. You can tune it by winding the wire in and out, and then locking it off by wrapping the wire around the tab on the spool. Two or more of these are very useful for portable operation. © Martin Ehrenfried – G8JNJ - 2007, 2008 & 2009 Used with permission  April – an introduction to HF propagation prediction What’s Coming in 2012 using free software by Jim Smith VE7FO  January – an introduction to the digital modes by John  May – our annual Foxhunt plus (at the general meeting) Macfarlane VE7AXU – especially for beginners – how to preparations for Field Day and how you can do your get started, popular modes and software options part to increase our 2013 FD score by another 50% available  June – our AGM and final countdown to Field Day, which  February – a slide-illustrated Alaska DXpedition talk by is on the weekend of June 22/23 Heinz Buhrig VA7AQ, followed by an in-house swap If we can work in a talk sometime during the Spring by Bill meet – bring stuff you no longer need and sell or Gipps VE7XS on his Lesotho, Africa DXpedition, we will do exchange it for new stuff so.  March – a tutorial on short and “stealth” antennas for Also planned is a guided tour of SARC’s new repeater the real-estate challenged ham, presented by John installation located on the roof of a 36-story hi-rise –the White VA7JW view is great!. - 6 - January 2013 Radio Frequency Interference: A Practical Example Of The Effect At the suggestion of Jim Smith VE7FO, I recently joined an improvement. Next I connected .01 uF disc ceramic RFI reflector at http://lists.contesting.com/. Why? capacitors between the hot leads and ground. Also Because I hoped to find some answers to a frustrating NuHeat had provided me with a “snubber” – a capacitor Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) problem that I was with a resistor in series – which I connected across the experiencing. I had installed in my bathroom an power leads. However, the problem persisted. Finally electrically heated floor and thermostat c/w built-in after many emails and telephone back and forth, NuHeat ground fault interrupter (GFI). However, whenever I put me in touch with Honeywell, the manufacturer of the transmitted, even briefly, on 15m or 10m the GFI would thermostat. Honeywell responded very quickly first trip and the power would go off. The first time this asking me some questions about my power level, happened, the thermostat failed to work again even after frequencies, SWR etc that might suggest a transmitter resetting the GFI. First call was to the supplier (NuHeat) problem. After they were satisfied with the answers, of the “Solo” thermostat. Their customer support team Honeywell knew nothing about RFI and I had to explain that it was couriered another likely a problem with the thermostat and not a problem thermostat (#3) with my radio transmissions. Without argument, they to me for trial. replaced the thermostat with a new one (#2). Not No cigar. When I wanting to take further chances with ruining another reported this thermostat, I decided to install some RF protective failure, they devices, as I assumed that the 220 v house wiring was promptly sent me picking up RF and passing it through to the thermostat. yet another thermostat (#4) While RF interference is not a new problem, it is most called commonly experienced with telephones and audio “Harmony”. This devices. However, nowadays the large variety of RF is a more susceptible electronic devices in our houses has greatly expensive device increased the likelihood of problems. The number of of (apparently) devices emitting RF has also increased accordingly. different design. It worked! One by one, I removed the Plasma TVs, computer monitors, electric fences, touch RF chokes and capacitors until they were all gone. After turn-on lamps, halogen lights, and wall-wart switching several days of testing at different frequencies, there has power supplies are just some of the items that are been no effect on the thermostat/GFI, so I mounted it reputed to send out wide-spectrum RF, but there are permanently and thanked Honeywell for their efficient many others. What to do in this case? service. First, I applied the standard remedy: I clamped split Lesson: if you have an RFI issue, try the standard ferrite cores around the power cable near the remedies but when they fail to solve the problem, get the thermostat. That appeared to have no effect, however manufacturer on board with device replacement in mind, this time the thermostat could be reset and made as with modern radios it is typically not the radio functional, which transmissions that are at fault. This approach may not was progress of a work with some of the off-shore manufacturers, so bear sort. Then I this in mind when purchasing electronic devices – they ordered an RFI kit may not care about their reputation and customer service from Palomar and the way Honeywell does. ARRL publishes several good RFI when it arrived I guides as well as the Radio Amateurs Handbook and more added ferrite beads information can be found on the Internet. For unusual to the individual problems that defy the conventional solutions, the RFI power leads. No reflector website mentioned above is another excellent source of expert advice. Typical RFI devices including split (snap-on) ferrite cores, ferrite beads, toroids and capaci- John VA7XB tors. RFI kits are available from Palomar. Now enjoying toasty toes in his remodeled bathroom. - 7 - SARC Communicator More Tech Talk: Some Stories Posted On The RFI Contesting Reflector I may have posted this here once before, but just in down out of sight and programmed my keyer to send "RFI case… In another recent post, someone bemoaned how it TEST DE N5OP" continuously at 20 second intervals. I then seems impossible to do anything to encourage people to went out and mowed my lawn. He watched me mowing get rid of their problematic (from an RFI standpoint) my lawn while his touch lamp went nuts and finally went equipment. I have, exactly *once,* been able to pull off back inside and unplugged it. He certainly couldn't accuse such a feat off without the owner's knowledge. Here's the me of the problem because I was outside, mowing the story: lawn! About 20 years ago, when I lived in Colorado, I had a But that's not the end: I had a good friend over one night ne'er-do-well neighbor behind me by the name of Bobby. who had just passed his Tech. I saw my antagonist in his This was a bit of a jerk and had complained about my living room, watching his TV, with his beloved touch-lamp radio activities in many different ways having nothing to on. We grabbed some binoculars and I said "Watch this." do with radio. But, once he came over to my place with Keeping all lights off, I programmed my keyer with "RFI some "muscle" in tow (his brother-in-law, who was TEST DE N5OP" and fired up my TS-930S. As if my magic, actually named Bubba) to tell me how much RFI trouble I his touch lamp began its routine. He got out of his chair was causing. I happily showed him and Bubba the station, and looked at my house. Dark as a tomb. He readjusted demonstrated that I didn't bother any of my stuff, handed the lamp and just as he sat down, it started again. He did 'em an FCC RFI booklet, and sent 'em away somewhat this trick several times and every time, as if on cue, it confused. Bubba was pretty reasonable and told my went nuts again right about when he sat down. By this neighbor, Bobby, that everything seemed OK at my house, time my friend was almost unable to breathe due to his so...? I never heard much more from Bobby, though I did laughter. But then came the "piece de resistance:" the get a phone call or two, always when I *wasn't* on the air. lamp started its routine again and this time the guy leaped out of his chair, grabbed the lamp and, shaking it Then Bobby got a touch lamp in his second-floor living as if he were choking it, ripped it out of the wall socket room, which was easily visible from my operating and *threw* it down a hallway. Needless to say, that put position. That touch lamp was a pretty sensitive receiver the poor touch lamp out of its misery and solved my RFI and even at 100W, it went completely nuts on 20 m. I use problem. CW almost exclusively, but SSB did it in, too. For a long My friend complained for some days afterward that his time, he couldn't figure it out, but one day while I was sides hurt from so much laughing. Mine did, too. finishing up catching some DXpedition, I saw him out on his balcony looking carefully over at my house. I ducked ~Kim N5OP Another RFI Story... Sounds like my experience in a town house apartment... the neighbors put a stereo against the common wall and liked to turn it up too loud. So when it got louder than I liked I went and started sending dits on the wire loop I had around the inside of the front wall right next to the stereo, mostly I just used it for listening from the apartment and would operate mobile. The louder the stereo was the faster the dits were set until they turned it down, then they stopped. A couple times and they must have been convinced they had a problem with the amp or speakers above a certain volume. ~David K1TTT - 8 - SARC Communicator January 2013 The SARC Calendar ...places to be in Surrey for Amateur Radio in the month ahead January 2013 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 30 31 1 2 3 4 5 SARC Exec Weekly SARC CONTEST: Meeting Breakfast 8:00 ARRL RTTY ABC Restaurant Roundup 74th & King George Blvd. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 CONTEST: SEPAR NET 7:30 SARC Monthly Weekly SARC CONTEST: ARRL RTTY SARC NET 8:00 Meeting Breakfast 8:00 NA QSO Party Roundup CW 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 CONTEST: SEPAR NET 7:30 Weekly SARC NA QSO Party NA QSO Party SARC NET 8:00 Breakfast 8:00 SSB CW 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 NA QSO Party SEPAR NET 7:30 SARC Exec Weekly SARC CONTEST: SSB SARC NET 8:00 Meeting Breakfast 8:00 BARTG RTTY Sprint 27 28 29 30 31 28 29 CONTEST: BARTG RTTY For details on all SARC events, go to Sprint ve7sar.net For details on all SEPARS events, go to separ.shutterfly.com/calendar Contest Details: http://hornucopia.com/contestcal/contestcal.html - 9 - SARC Communicator ‘Net’ Working: Internet Resources For Hams HRDlog.net What is it? Print logbook HRDlog.net is an independent online logbook, free for all This function allows to print your own logbook. It requires Amateur Radio Operators. First launched in December just to select the year from which the print has to start 2008 as the online logbook of Ham Radio Deluxe, it is now and you will get your logbook in PDF format, easily integrated with many other logbook programs. loadable or printable. It is reachable from Login -> Print - > Logbook  Share own logbook over the net and back up your logbook off your PC. Social networks  Members can restore their logbook, useful after a PC HRDlog allows the integration with Facebook (Login -> crash. Modify profile ->Facebook) In addition, you can follow the  Real time synchronization with Ham Radio Deluxe or news also on the page http://www.facebook.com/HRDLOGnet or join the on-request logbook importation using a standard ADIF group "HRDLOG.net official user group". file. The integration with Twitter (Login -> Modify profile ->  Members can display their last QSO and on-air status on Twitter) has been improved: now it is possible their own website. to postpone an #hasthag on your own tweet sent to the  Members can allow searches of their QSO on their own social network and new buttons have been added in order website. to make possible to Follow @HRDLOGnet, Tweet on @HRDLOGnet or send a tweet.  Members can display their last QSO and on-air status on their own page on QRZ.com. Section for QSL Manager  View in real time the current ham activity, the last QSO A new section of the web site was created completely over the world map, and an animation of the last 24 dedicated to QSL Managers; this section is reachable hours. through Login -> QSL Manager -> Manage.  Members can view, edit, delete, filter QSOs by Country, The QSL Managers can register their customers, manage the questions and the sending of QSL, save the cost of Zone, Band, Mode. their activities, have annual reports; the whole is  Members can view their QSOs over the world map. integrated with the logbook part of HRDLOG.net and with the printings of HRDLabel. This function has not to be  Members can view their QSO statistics, numerate their confused with the setting of your own QSL Manager, QSO by Country, Mode, or Band. operation which has to be done through Login -> Modify  Members can create a personal web page. Profile -> User Data.  Members can exchange electronic QSLs. Page List DXCC  Members can set own privacy level (full shared logbook, We remind you that through the page "List DXCC" (Login -> partial shared, no shared). List DXCC) is possible to visualize the list of the contacted countries and of the confirmed ones.  Members can received event based notification via e- After this updating, it is also possible to verify the mail or SMS. correspondence between the callsign and the assigned  Facebook integration: show logbooks, your on-air country (Check DXCC) and modify the attribution in case of error. status, your QSL collection. Current DXpeditions, next contest calendar, point of Logbook import from a HTTP server interest, public chat, forum, private message exchange, webcam support, friend list, shared resources, weekly top This function, suitable for DXpedition or expert users, user election, rates and so on. allows to import your own logbook taking it from a web (Continued on page 11) - 10 -