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Design Your Ideal Ham Radio Shack with Dave W7UUU 'Ham Radio Perspectives' interviews Dave, W7UUU, who lost his amateur radio shack in a fire and built a new one based on terrific principles for all hams N7UW University Amateur Radio Club Laramie WY Florence RadioFest The Florence RadioFest is a popular hamfest organized by local ham radio club in Florence Italy that includes a large Flea-maket, main ham radio dealers and shops, and features technical workshops, a homebrew contest and prize-giving. TRX Eagle SDR Technical Reference/Software Defined Radio TRX Eagle is a ultra compact software defined radio for amateur radio bands. This all mode SDR features a 15W total power output. Maldives update Tom, OE1TRI, will be active as 8Q7TR from South Ari Atoll (WW Loc. MJ63ko) between December 28th and January 3rd, 2022 Comet Leonard outburst Comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) surprised astronomers yesterday when it suddenly brightened 10-fold Wellington Conference 2022 New Zealand's national society NZART has posted the following information Australia's QTC ham radio magazine now available on web The December issue of the Australian amateur radio magazine QTC is now available for free download CTU 2022 DayXenia HamVention Contest University registration is now OPEN and ready for May 19, 2022, at the Hope Hotel in Dayton, Ohio Antennapalooza Antennapalooza is an amateur radio and social event held over a weekend on a 7 acre rural property. Now in its seventh year, the event is popular, with a broad and interesting array of presentations, operational and social activities Finland's radio hams send gift to Icelandic hams The national amateur radio society of Finland, SRAL, has presented Iceland's IRA with an engraved KBX-380 Morse paddle to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the IRA's foundation Yagi antenna for 23 cm Antennas/23cm Homebrew 23 cm 12 element Yagi Antenna based on the DL6WU design. This articles include several pictures of the yagi antenna along with detailed element size and spacing. Russian New Year 2022 marathon On the eve of the New Year 2022, the Russian Union of Radio Amateurs, the Miller-DX-Club (an international long-distance radio club), together with the HAMLOG.ONLINE portal, are holding an international radio marathon 'Russia New Year - 2022' for the sixth year in a row Club gives Next Generation Beacon fund a boost A one-thousand-rand donation from the West Rand Amateur Radio Club has increased the SARL Next Generation Beacon fund to R31 400 The Propagation Horoscope A large high pressure area over Ireland has brought Tropo with early morning ducting. Good conditions, first into Spain and France, later into Central Europe should persist for a few days. A large central coronal hole is facing Earth, it may yet deliver an unwanted present, wrapped in bright flares IRTS Committee Michael Goss EI2JM has resigned from the IRTS Committee due to personal family reasons. The IRTS would like to wish Michael well and thank him for his contributions over his term on the Committee SAQ and SK6SAQ Grimeton December 24 On Friday, December 24 SAQ Grimeton is scheduled to be on the air, to send out a Christmas message to the whole world, using the 97 year old 200kW Alexanderson alternator on 17.2 kHz CW Ham radio satellite XW-3 (CAS-9) to launch December 25 The CAMSAT XW-3 (CAS-9) satellite carrying a 145/435 amateur radio linear transponder has been installed on the CZ-4C Y39 launch vehicle at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, launch is expected on December 25 ComReg to introduce a novice/entry-level EI licence Éire currently only has a single class of amateur licence but in a Consultation Response document released December 17 the regulator ComReg says it will introduce a lower level HB9TOW - Turkish HAM and CB radio TA2MOG (HB9TOW) website. Ham and CB radio pages in Turkish, forum, with a summary English section. Info in visiting Turkey. GB3BH - South West Herts UHF Group ATV repeater The South West Herts UHF Group. TS590 MEM - Memory management Software/Radio Programming Kenwood TS590 memory management software for windows Top Amateur Radio Websites - Issue 2148 NewLogOSH, Ferrite Rod TX Antenna for 40m, Homebase 10 , A Low Profile 10 Meter Antenna, 2 Element Wire Yagi for 10 meters band, Icom IC-R8600 Review, DMR Contact Manager QSL.Net Donation Request QSL.Net donation campaign. The DXZone.com supports QSL.net's donation request campaign. SpaceX launches 52 Starlink satellites from California base A SpaceX rocket carried 52 Starlink internet satellites into orbit from California early Saturday Echo India Flora Fauna EIFF, short for Echo India Flora Fauna, part of the the World Wide Flora Fauna program, are pleased to announce that from the 1st of January 2022 EIFF will be run by Jer, EI3HGB, and Declan, EI9HQ SDR toolkit bends weather station to hackers whims We probably don’t have to tell most Hackaday readers why the current wave of low-cost software defined radios (SDRs) are such a big deal for hackers looking to explore the wide world of wireless signals The SARL President's message for the festive season As we approach the Festive Season and 2021 draws to a close, I am sure we all experienced a year that turned out much differently than anybody could have envisaged. However, it is the time of the year to take that well deserved break and devote some time to our families and friends German regulator says Russian state media is broadcasting without a license German regulators have launched proceedings against Russian state-controlled media RT for broadcasting in the country without a valid license Lamakaan Amateur Radio Convention is a success The Indian Express newspaper reports the 4th Lamakaan Annual Radio Convention (LARC-4) at the Muffakham Jah College of Engineering and Technology (MJCET) was attended by radio amateurs from across India ARISS contact scheduled for students at Berufliche Schule Direktorat This will be a telebridge contact via amateur radio and students in Nuremberg, Germany who will take turns asking their questions of Matthias Maurer, amateur radio call sign KI5KFH Germany: Temporary permission for 1.8, 50, 70 MHz, 2.4 and 5 GHz German regulator BNetzA has extended temporary permission given to radio amateurs to operate in 1.8 MHz band at full power, also use of 50 MHz, 70 MHz and for Class E (CEPT Novice) the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands QSO Today - Jack Purdum, W8TEE Dr. Jack Purdum, W8TEE, licensed since 1954, is a prolific author of at least 17 books on computer programming languages and microprocessor projects for amateur radio and is now the Microcontroller Editor at CQ Magazine Amateur Radio as a Vehicle for Technology Literacy Chris Burger ZS6EZ and Hans van de Groenendaal ZS6AKV have produced a paper 'Amateur Radio as a Vehicle for Technology Literacy' which looks at the situation in Africa UK Foreign Office proposal for amateur radio bands in BAT The British Antarctic Territory (BAT) is administered from London by the Polar Regions Department of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. They recently announced plans to administer an amateur radio licence for the Territory (no licence has been available for the past 2 years)