CQ Santa! The 2011 Santa Contest

Yes Christmas is coming and the Alpha Tango group have organised a Santa contest!

First station to work all or the most Santa stations wins the contest! There will be first places from Europe, Africa, Oceanian, Asia, Americas & Non AT Member!

The 2011 Santa Contest, will be running for the first 4 weekends of December : -

December 3- 4
December 10- 11
December 17- 18
December 24- 25

Starts Saturday at 00:01 GMT (Friday 7:01 PM EST)
and Ends Sunday at 23:59 GMT (6:59 PM EST)

27.605 to 27.855Mhz are the frequencies be used for this contest

Good Luck and Merry Christmas!

Anytone AT-5555 Software Frequency Adjustment

Having come across an Anytone AT-5555 that was off frequency from the factory, I have discovered how to adjust the oscillator from the front panel, so it's now back on frequency!

Press and hold "FUNC" while powering on the radio
then press "RB" once
then press "AN/ANL" once
then press "DW" once

the radio enters adjustment mode when the LCD displays BFXXX, (where XXX is the numeric setting value) and you must make adjustments to the frequency in each mode, one by one.

I would not recommend performing this procedure without suitable equipment to count the frequency and make a note of the values before changing them

Note: I did not need to modify resistor R567 for this adjustment and it seams to work well without it.

Special thank you to Highfields ARC, Qixiang and N6QLC providing the community with this information.