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| 9Q�AR |
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| ARAC
Club station - Kinshasa |
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| 9Q�AR
is the national Society's Kinshasa club station c/o Amateur Radio Association of
D. R. CONGO P.O. Box 2049, Hotel des Postes, Boulevard du 30 Juin, KINSHASA
1Email [email protected] |
| 2001 |
| IARU HF Championship HQ category |
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Thanks to the patronage of His Excellency Minister of PTT Kinshasa, ARAC
entered 2001 IARU HF Championship HQ category from Kinshasa, as per temporary license
issued on 13th July 2001 around 20.00 local time from 13 to 17th ONLY iso originally
expected 10 days. For this very first time on the air, Society's concept was to come up
with an exhibition more than a true contest entry. |
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With such a short notice, operation launched on 13th July eve
with FT-920 + AL-1500 into a merely tuned HF6V on 20, 15 and 10: definitely no big gun
setup, but good enough to display an exhibition of Amateur Service through out a milestone
weekend. : 579 pericontest and 657 contest QSOs in 9Q0AR log when pulling out the plug. |
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Guest operators, Cyprien Kahundira Vagheni, Jean Philippe
Monkonzi, and Wakilongo Kangawe, each of them members of ARAC, were given for the very
first time the opportunity by sunday 15th pm to exchange with some Hams overseas. |
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| ARRL
10 meter contest |
| Licence
N�CAB/MIN/PTT/987/WK/2001 by Ministry of PTT was issued to 9Q0AR club station on 12th
december for a 4 day operation, iso originally 10 days requested. Even slow, it shows that
Society's project is building up with the support of PTT officials. |
| For this second activity, pre contest traffic totalled 1.250 QSOs on
20, 17 and 12, during occasional free time only 13 and 14th december, as operators had
professional occupations locally. |
| Station setup at 9Q/F6BLQ QTH was FT990 + AL1500 + HF6V on 20, and rotary
trap dipole @ 12 meters on WARC bands. |
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ARRL 10 meter contest ended up with 2.040 QSOs, 88
countries, 57 states / provinces, and a provisional score of 580.000 points. Conditions
were very poor to Far East and Pacific, but average to Europe and excellent to North
America, although a solar storm behind the corner. Operation closed on sunday night with a
total of 3.300 QSOs. |
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| To be recalled is that 9Q is Democratic Republic of CONGO since
1997, even though most logging programs still call it ZAIRE: please amend your databases!
Another CONGO exists on the other side of the river, being TN, Republic of CONGO with
capital city Brazzaville. |
WARC rotary dipole
being installed. |
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| 2002 |
| Great
news: At long last, ARAC Kinshasa has been
allocated a 60 sqm room at PTT Training Center where 9Q0AR
club station is going to settle, with FT-901 for a start as receiver only. |
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The Society, with less than
$100 in cashbox, and national Members personal income less than $50 a month, looks forward
possible donations, in particular 2nd hand full solid state trcvr with ATU, tribander
and/or rotor. Contact Webmaster for possible
details. |
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| 2003: |
2003 |
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| Here are
some members of the Club |
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| 2004 |
ARAC was pleased to host Gus SM5DIC one more time in Kinshasa. Gus has made a
great job fixing equipment at 9Q0AR, building wire and vertical antennas, and supervising
HF SSB traffic by 9Q1KS AND 9Q1PM. |
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