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Weekly Update for November 6–13, 2026

New Station!

  • W7/Montana has been added! Currently it has a tribander fixed at Asia, but more antennas and controls will be added soon.

New Features

  • The redesigned website has launched. It’s cleaner, sleeker and less cluttered.
  • The new Help Center is also live, replacing the old knowledge base. It has up-to-date articles on getting started, billing, the console, FT8/FT4, logging, contesting and LocalMate, plus a printable manual.
  • CQ WW is now two contest choices, CQ WW CW and CQ WW SSB, so your Cabrillo log carries the right contest for the mode you operated.

Improvements

  • The N1MM+ setup now shows the exact address to enter, including the port number.
  • Antenna switch and rotor commands that don’t reach a station’s remote switching box are now retried automatically, so band and antenna changes are more reliable.

Bug Fixes

  • Logging a phone contact in the CQ WW, WPX or IARU contest forms no longer sends CW to the radio and into your headset when ESM is off.
  • The console no longer sometimes shows an amplifier as OFF until you refresh the page.
  • Changing bands now sets every antenna switch for that band, not just the first one, which fixes 6m and 60m switching at Phoenix2.
  • The station power panel no longer loses track of its outlets after a single missed reading from the power switch.
  • Club Log DXCC charts no longer show an error for a mode you haven’t worked yet.

Station Updates

  • W7/Phoenix: 60M/160M is back! And WARC bands are now routed through a tuner for improved SWR.

DX Highlights

  • C8K (Mozambique) came on the air November 10 and was our busiest DXpedition, with about 95 contacts, mostly on FT8 with a good share of CW, best on 40m, 12m, 30m and 80m, and worked best from W1/Eastport-12/17/30/80, W4/Atlanta and W2/Summit-10/15/20/40/160.
  • 3X4U (Guinea) only came on the air November 11 and already logged about 90 contacts across 10m to 40m on FT8, CW and SSB, worked best from W1/Eastport-10/15/20/40, W2/Blueberry and W1/Eastport-12/17/30/80.
  • KH8A (American Samoa) was on all week for about 45 contacts, mostly FT8 on 12m, 15m, 30m and 40m, worked best from W7/Tacoma, W7/Phoenix2 and W1/Chaplin.
  • 6W/IK2HKT and 6W/IV3FSG (Senegal) gave about 18 FT8 contacts, mainly on 40m, 12m and 10m, worked best from W1/Chaplin, W1/Eastport-10/15/20/40 and W4/Wilkesboro; IK2HKT was last worked November 8 and has probably gone QRT, while IV3FSG was still on the air at week’s end.
  • 4U1UN (United Nations HQ) produced about 13 contacts, almost all FT8 on 160m, worked best from W1/Jonesport-160.
  • 9X5KM (Rwanda) gave about 10 contacts, mostly FT8 on 20m, worked best from W2/Summit-10/15/20/40/160; it was last worked November 10 and may have gone QRT.
  • Also worked: E51MWA (North Cook Islands), 3A2LF (Monaco) on 40m, 5R8IC (Madagascar), OH0Z (Aland Islands) on 160m, 5A1AL (Libya) on FT4, C91RU (Mozambique), D44PX (Cabo Verde) and FW3GT (Wallis & Futuna Islands), mostly on CW.
  • By the numbers: About 1,880 contacts and 146 DXCC entities were logged, with FT8 making up 61% of contacts and 20m the busiest band at 31%.
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