The following is a message from DXLook:

About 4,000 hams use DXLook every month. Around 100 of them — roughly 2.5% — help support it through donations. Their generosity, along with what I put into it myself, keeps the site free and available to everyone.

Keeping a project like this going means figuring out how to ask for help without getting in the way. So I’ve added a simple honor system: click “I already donated this month,” and the donation reminder goes away until next month. There are no accounts and nobody checks. If you say you donated, that’s good enough for me.

The reminders are also less frequent now: no more than once a day, and never on your first visit.

To those 100 people helping keep DXLook running: thank you. You’re making it possible for a lot of other hams to use it too.

Rodrigo, AK6FP

Source: DXLook

The following is a message from the Dog Day Amateur Radio Club:

The Dog Day Radio Amateur Radio Club KØDOG, is back on the air from the 1st through to the 7th of November. Operators will be calling CQ for one week in recognition of the selfless work of the volunteers, rescuers, veterinarians, shelter staffers and other supporters of animals in need of loving and responsible homes. The event coincides with National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week created by the Humane Society of the US.

Listen on the HF bands, where we will be using CQ and SSB. Share your own stories as adopters, foster caregivers and rescue workers. QSL cards are available for all confirmed contacts and SWLs who send an SASE.

Don't forget that your QSO with KØDOG is just the beginning: there are many ways to continue helping shelters and rescue workers do their best work. Visit KØDOG on QRZ.com and learn how you can donate your professional services, funds, clean towels and sheets or some toys and food. See you on the air!

Source: Dog Day Radio Amateur Radio Club

The following is a press release from the Dan Beard Council Radio Scouting Committee:

CINCINNATI - Fifty-eight Scouts from across the Dan Beard Council got on the air October 17 and 18 as part of Jamboree on the Air, the largest Scouting event in the world.

Held every third full weekend of October since 1958, Jamboree on the Air connects more than a million Scouts in over 150 countries using amateur radio. Scouts swap greetings, compare notes on camping and school, and make friends on other continents without leaving home.

The committee ran two sites across the weekend. Forty Scouts worked the station at the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting in West Chester, co-hosted with the West Chester Amateur Radio Club as WC8VOA. Another eighteen operated from a campout at Camp Friedlander in Loveland under the council callsign KY4BSA.

For Scouts from Troop 674 in Montgomery, the weekend was the finish line of a program that started weeks earlier. Volunteer counselors taught three classroom sessions at troop meetings covering radio safety, how radio waves travel, regulation, and careers in the field. The campout supplied the part no classroom can: a Scout with a microphone in hand, calling out and waiting to see who answers.

The event also counts toward advancement. Participating in Jamboree on the Air now satisfies a requirement for the Citizenship in the World merit badge, and the weekend covered the hands-on portion of the Radio merit badge for Scouts in the Troop 674 program.

More Chances to get on the Air This WInter

The Troop 674 program was a dry run. The committee will teach the Radio merit badge at the council's Merit Badge Challenge in 2027, with sessions at Fairfield High School on January 16 and 30, and in Northern Kentucky on March 6 and 20. Before that, the committee is working with clubs in our area to host Scouts for Winter Field Day, January 23 and 24, where it plans to offer Radio merit badge sign-offs for Scouts who need the on-air requirement.

About the Radio Scouting Committee

A volunteer group of licensed amateur radio operators who bring equipment and instructors to Scout units across southwest Ohio and northern Kentucky at no cost to the unit. The committee has put 255 Scouts and 61 adults on the air since January across thirteen activations. More licensed operators are welcome; no teaching experience is required.

Media contact: Shawn Grubb, KE8BBC, Chair, ke8bbc@arrl.net
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Source: Dan Beard Council Radio Scouting Committee