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Another good opportunity for catching that rare square is during VHF & UHF contests. Stations will often operate portable from the tops of high terrain and from rarer locator squares in order to attract other stations to work them for a greater number of points. Sometimes special DX expeditions are mounted that may or may not coincide with these contests.
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50MHz Activity |
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Probably the best source of general information about amateur radio operation is from the national or local amateur radio society. This is particularly useful if you intend to operate abroad for the first time and are not sure of the local operating frequencies or clubs that you might be able to visit.
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You might want to buy or sell second hand amateur radio equipment and the radio magazine adverts are either too expensive to place your advert in or the equipment is sold by the time the magazine is printed 3 months later. The best place is to look online at the sites shown below.
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What is Geocaching? It is rather like treasure hunting with buried caches hidden all around the World, you are provided with co-ordinates which you place in your GPS receiver and then you try to find the hidden treasure! Good family fun and something just a little bit different.
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