We wish your very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Thank you very much for QSOs in 2012 and hope to see you on the bands more often in 2013!

photo from http://www.mtechnologies.com/xmas/

2012 Let's A1 Contest

2012 Let's A1 Contest will be held on the last Sunday of October, i.e. 28 October this year. You may use Straight Key or equivalent manual switch which has only one mechanical contact for sending the code. Detailed time and bands and exchanges are described in the following rule page: http://a1club.net/LA1_contest-e.htm

Tokyo Hamfair 2012

A1 Club will participate Tokyo Hamfair 2012 which will be held on Aug. 25th
and 26th, 2012 at Tokyo Bigsite international exhibition center.
For details please refer to the page,
http://www.a1club.net/HAMFAIR/hamfair2012/hamfair2012.htm (sorry written in
Japanese only)

The A1 Club QSO Party in 2012

A1 CLUB QSO PARTY 2012 will be held from May-1 until May-31 (Japan time). Refer to following page for details. http://a1club.net/events/PTY/pty-en.htm

A1 CLUB KEY

We are pleased to announce the 2012 CLUB KEY project of A1 CLUB.

We've started with 11 founding members in 1998, since then our community has been accepted by many CW lovers worldeide, and the roster number is going to become over two thousand within this year.

Celebrating this we are going to release an original club key.

Refer to http://www.a1club.net/clubkey/index_e.html for further details.