All the received QSLs for the 2018 W5L Louisiana Purchase Special Event have been uploaded.

Congratulations to Ben McFarlin, KG5TKE, for passing the General Class exam!

Congratulation to the following for passing the General Class exam:  Denise Cavin, KN5DEC      Logan English, KI5CKS      Carter Lang, KI5CKK      Bill Parker, KI5DHM

Congratulations to KAREN HOUSTON on passing her Amateur Extra exam, NICHOLAS OVERBY on passing his General exam, and STEVEN D CRAIG II on passing the Technician exam at the hamfest last Saturday.

One very handy operating aid when operating a state QSO party is a map showing the counties. The US Census Bureau has very nice maps, but the link to them has recently changed. The new URL is: www.census.gov/geographies/reference-maps/2000/geo/state-county-outline-2000.html

The West Monroe High School Amateur Radio club now hold the vanity callsign of WM5HS. We are looking forward to hearing that callsign on the air in the future.

The European FT8 Club is sponsoring an FT8 DX Contest on April 13, 2019 1200z through April 14, 2019 1200z. Everyone works everyone in this contest, and the maximum power category for the contest is 100 W. The exchange format is the same as the ARRL RTTY Roundup, with state/province for US/Canada stations, and serial…

The first 1.0 release candidate of JS8Call is ready for download at the official JS8Call web site. This release candidate will be good until March 11, after which there is a planned 1.0 general release.