MM0DGR/p will be working from the Clyde Valley Woodlands National Nature Reserve (GMFF-015) on Saturday, 30th January, 2010. Clyde Valley Woodlands NNR is made up of three detached woodlands scattered along the Clyde Valley. Cleghorn Glen and Cartland Craigs are situated on the outskirts of Lanark, with Jock’s Gill Wood on the outskirts of Carluke. Bands: 20, 30, and 40 meters. Modes: BPSK63, CW, and SSB. Equipment: Icom IC-706MKIIG, Antenna 10m-high Vertical with CG-5000 Antena Coupler. Amplifier: HLA-300 Plus (400W). Grid locator IO85CQ, WAB NS84, EU Area SC29 (South Lanarkshire), IOTA EU-005. Nearest town is Lanark. Station's location will be at Jerviswood Tower. QSL via MM0DFV (preferably RSGB QSL-bureau).

Dear EPC members,

From 1st to 30th June 2010 our club is organizing the "EPC Fourth Year Celebration Month" (EPC FYCM). There will be many special event stations working with the "EPC" suffix from all over the world. We are looking for EPC operators in various countries to apply for the special event station call signs locally to be active during the June, 2010. Please contact us if you are willing to apply for such special event call sign in your own country so that we can make an accurate list of all the participating stations beforehand, and inform PSK enthusiasts all over the world through various DX news resources including our own website. The only requirement is that the suffix of the special event station must be "EPC", such as GB1EPC, GB0EPC, etc. Please don't concern regarding the QSL design and printing expenses, our club will do that. Even if you don't have a QSL manager, we can offer you our help.

We plan to issue a special series of EPC awards for contacts made with EPC club and special event stations from 1st to 30th June 2010. This will be the 4th anniversary celebration of the European PSK Club with more than 11000 members at that time. Please contact us as soon as possible if you wish to run an EPC special event station in June 2010 since it's going to be a great event amongst PSK enthusiasts.

We would also ask our existing EPC club stations to be especially active during this period. Please contact us to confirm your participation so that we can add you to the list of the participants. The UK EPC members have already started to apply for Notices of Variation (NoV) for EPC Special Event Call Signs. Complete lists will be published on our website as soon as we accumulate the information.

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MM0DGR/m (EPC # 200) will be working from the Braehead Moss National Nature Reserve (GMFF-010) on Saturday, 23rd January 2010. Operators: Jurij MM0DFV, John GM0WRR, and possibly Victor GM0SDV. Bands: 3.5 - 28 MHz, BPSK63 and other modes. WAB Square NS95, Grid Locator IO85, EU Area SC29 (South Lanarkshire), IOTA EU-005. Equipment: Transceiver Icom IC-706MKIIG and 10m Vertical Antenna + CG-5000 Automatic Antenna Coupler. QSL-cards via MM0DFV (RSGB QSL-Bureau).

Braehead Moss peat bog in the central belt of Scotland has complex origins in that it has arisen from peat developing in two separate basins, which have now fused. In the area where peat has merged, the vegetation has affinities to 7130 Blanket bogs. The station will be operating just beside Braehead village located on the verge of the Nature Reserve. This place is a Designated Special Area of Conservation (SAC).

You can download our information leaflet at this link.

We have received engraved trophies for the EU PSK DX Contest 2009 winners and for the United Kingdom winner in the EPC PSK63 QSO Party 2008. All trophies will be posted shortly to the following addressees: Sergey Zhemaytis, RU3QR (EPC # 16, SOAB-LP 1st place in Europe, EU PSK DX Contest 2009); Alexander Nudel, UR7GO (EPC # 6775, SOAB-HP 1st place in Europe, EU PSK DX Contest 2009); Vyacheslav Vinogradov, RA9RR (EPC # 4645, SOAB-LP 1st place outside of Europe, EU PSK DX Contest 2009); Gennadiy Gleyzer, UN1L (EPC # 2578, SOAB-HP 1st place outside of Europe, EU PSK DX Contest 2009); Mario Pedreschi, GM3MZX (EPC # 178, 1st place in the United Kingdom, EPC PSK63 QSO Party 2008).

The European PSK Club congratulates all the winners on their achievement. Many thanks for your interest and support, and we look forward to see you in the forthcoming EPC contests.

The EPC Contest Committee has received 725 logs for the EPC PSK63 QSO Party 2009 from 67 DXCC countries: 4L, 9A, BY, CN, CO, CT, CX, DL, EA, EA8, EA9, EI, EK, ER, ES, EU, EX, EY, F, FG, G, GI, GM, HA, HB, HI, HS, I, J3, JA, K, LA, LU, LY, LZ, OD, OE, OH, OK, OM, ON, OY, OZ, PA, PZ, S5, SM, SP, SV, TA, TF, UA2F, UA3, UA9, UN, UR, V5, VE, VK, VU, XE, YB, YL, YO, YU, YV, and ZL.. The best station on BPSK63 in the 2009  is UR4QX. Congratulations to Yuri and all the EPC PSK63 QSO Party 2009 winners!

The amount of participants has increased significantly since the last year. Three top stations have managed to make their score over four million with more than 1000 BPSK63 contacts: UR4QX, UN1L, and UA4HOX. Well done guys!

Yuri Ivanov, UR4QX (EPC # 6283) takes the top World Wide position with a score of 4573359. This is the best ever result has been achieved in the EPC PSK63 QSO Party. Next is the best PSK63 station 2008 Gennady Gleyzer, UN1L (EPC # 2578) with a score of 4494282 which makes him a leader on the Asian continent. Aleksey Romanov, UA4HOX takes the third place with a score of 4307584.

YR5EPC (EPC # 9000) is another new EPC special event station (SES) from Transylvania, Romania. It will be active PSK on all bands from 4th January untill 31st December 2010. QSL manager and station's trustee is Ioan Muntean, YO6AJI. Station's location is Floreşti, a commune in Cluj County (EU Area RO15). YR5EPC is the 37th EPC official club station. This is another chance to get more points for the ECSA award series. Copy of the licence can be seen at the EPC Club Stations section on our website.

Contest LogChecker is a set of contest tools for Microsoft Windows, combining advanced text editing with keyword highlighted, and the ease and flexibility of import, export, statistics and charting utilities.

With LogChecker you can edit, fill in the log, check Cabrillo Format and Header, convert files from the most popular logging software to Cabrillo, print customizable files, calculate statistics and export logs to RTF, PDF or HTML for publishing.

You can examine a log in many different ways by highly interactive methods.

Another batch of QSL-cards for the EPC club stations has been printed or will be printed shortly. This time our list includes the following stations: 9A1EPC, CQ3EPC, CQ7EPC, CS2EPC, K6EPC, MA0EPC, PA30EPC, and W5EPC. All QSL-cards are in full-colour design, printed on a high quality glossy paper. We hope that these QSL-cards will be a good addition to your QSL-collection. Please have a look at the flash album below to see the samples. More designs and prints are coming in the 2010. All the very best to you guys and Merry Christmas!