Intrepid-DX Group Announces Youth Dream Rig Essay Contest

November 6, 2025The following is a press release from Intrepid-DX Group:

Announcing the 6th annual Youth “Dream Rig” Essay Contest.

The Intrepid-DX Group is a California based 501(c)(3) Non-profit organization. Our charter is to promote amateur radio in developing nations. We have conducted amateur radio exhibitions and youth outreach in Iraq, South Sudan, Rotuma, Iran, Ethiopia, Eritrea and North Korea. Six years ago, we began our annual youth “Dream Rig” Essay contest as a further means to reach young people and interest them in our hobby of amateur radio.

This year, we are revising our traditional essay contest and calling it “Amateur Radio for the Greater Good” We greatly appreciate the support and sponsorship of ICOM America and DX Engineering for making this year’s project possible.

We will be seeking written proposals from young amateurs age 25 or younger, describing how they would establish a Club, Contest, Community or Emergency Communication station to be in a school, church, fire station, community center, hospital or other public building. This station must be in the USA and only US licensed amateurs may submit proposals. This year, rather than our past essays, we are seeking well thought-out and clearly communicated project proposals for a public access amateur radio station.

We will award one complete station: HF rig, VHF/UHF rig, power supply, coax and antennas to be used by the awardee to establish a station in a public space to be used for amateur radio training, mentoring, club use, contesting and emergency communications. In addition, the awardee will be provided with an additional HF radio for their own use and ownership.

The equipment provided will include:

1. ICOM IC-7300 HF Transceiver
2. ICOM ID-5100AD VHF/UHF transceiver
3. Power supply 13.8V
4. Two 100’ lengths of DXE 400MAX Coax
5. Comet GP15 VHF/UHF antenna
6. Suitable HF Vertical or Dipole Antenna.

Project Proposals may be submitted between November 10th and December 10th, 2025.

We will announce the awardee of the complete station on December 15th, 2025.

This is a departure from our conventional essay contest. We are looking for proposals that would place the station in a secure and common area where it could be enjoyed by other licensed amateurs.

Once the winning proposal is selected, the proposal author will have sixty days to secure written permission from the owner or guardian of the facility. The written permission must indicate approval for the station and antenna to be installed. The proposal author may be the trustee of the station.

Please contact us if you have any questions.

Submissions may be submitted via email to intrepiddxgroup@gmail.com or via US Mail to

The Intrepid-DX Group
3052 Wetmore Dr
San Jose, CA 95148
USA

Thank you,
Paul S. Ewing N6PSE
President, The Intrepid-DX Group

Source: Intrepid-DX Group open_in_new Intrepid-DX Group

ROC-HAM Radio Network Celebrates Hedy Lamarr Day

November 5, 2025The following is a message from ROC-HAM Radio Network:

ROC-HAM Radio Network celebrates Hedy Lamarr Day 2025 with a special event station N9H

For the 10th straight year in a row the ROC-HAM Radio Network is proud to put on this special event station to celebrate her 111th Birthday.

Check out QRZ page N9H for more info.

This special event net will take place on November 9th at 9am est, (14:00 UTC)

As we celebrate her technological advancements in Ham Radio and of course her silver screen roles in many movies she did throughout her career.

Join us and have fun and check in:

• Eecholink on the ROC-HAM Conference Server Node 531091
• AllStar Nodes 2585, 47620, 47918
• DMR TGIF Talk Group 2585
• DMR Extended Freedom Network Talk Group 2585
• Extended Freedom Network SIP Portal 2585

Come join us and help celebrate 10 years of this event, and of course wish Hedy Lamarr a Happy Birthday!

The net which will run for 4 hours or longer depending on the number of stations checking in.

We will be doing an HF side for this net. If you have access to HF you can join me on 20M OR 40M to celebrate Hedy Lamarr Day. Stop by and check in and get a QSL Card. We will be using Netlogger for this event so look for Hedy Lamarr Day 2025

We will have 25 amazing facts that you probably never knew about Hedy Lamarr.

See you there.

Speaking of checking in, a SPECIAL event QSL Card will be available upon request. Just tell the net controller and they will put you down for one and of course to obtain your special event QSL Card.

Send a S.A.S.E. (self addressed stamped envelope) to W2JLD, my address is good on QRZ.

If you do not want to do the S.A.S.E envelope, you can also send a donation of 5.00 USD to cover postage and handling cost at dmotorsports@gmail.com (PayPal Account).

When using the PayPal option, please put your callsign and name and time of qso or I will not know who it is from.

If you check in with all the net controllers, please make sure you supply the right amount of postage.

Source: ROC-HAM Radio Network open_in_new Special Event ROC-HAM Hedy Lamarr