He was fresh from the recent World Radiosport Team Championships in Europe, and showed all comers a clean pair of heels by also winning the Single Band title on 7 MHz. He was followed by the Phone winner, Hans Kappetijn ZS6KR from Pretoria, and old-timer Vidi la Grange ZS6AL from Vaal Triangle. Michiel Kr ger ZS6MJK made a respectable single-band showing on 7 MHz to grab the First Year CW award, a mere five months after receiving his licence. The club competition this year was a walk-over for the Pretoria Amateur Radio Club. Although Midlands presented a stiff challenge in the Phone contest, their CW results left them in the lurch.
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Hamnet bulletin returns on a monthly basis. The new Hamnet bulletin will be transmitted on the first Sunday of every month. The first edition of the new bulletin can be found here. Here is an extremely neat little spreadsheet for keeping track of your DXCC countries worked and confirmed. Various repeaters can either be coupled together or isolated, and the backbone links can be broken at various points.