Elettra: The Miracle Ship
The ARI Fidenza Club (IQ4FE) issues an award 'Elettra: The Miracle Ship' in 2021, drawing attention to Marconi's yacht Elettra and its significance in his radio experiments
Rockall Island £1,000,000 charity op
In June 2022 a team will land on Rockall Island, more than 200 nautical miles from the West Coast of Scotland, and the nearest civilisation
Santa takes to the airwaves to talk to children over ham radio
The Longmont Amateur Radio Club is connecting children with Santa for the rest of the week
ARISS contacts cancelled due to EVA changes
ARISS has announced that school contacts planned for Thursday, December 2 have been cancelled due to postponement of planned spacewalk by radio amateurs KI5LAL and KE5HOC
ARISS-USA Announces New Senior Leadership
The US segment of Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS-USA) has augmented its senior leadership team with five new members. In May 2020, ARISS-USA created a new 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization to enhance and expand ARISS initiatives in the US. ARISS says the new membership will support the variety of new functions and roles within ARISS-USA. Martin “Marty” Schulman...
YOTA Month Continues to Expand into the Americas
December is YOTA Month, celebrating and encouraging Youth On the Air. Amateur radio operators who are 25 years old and younger will be on the air as special event stations around the world throughout December in celebration of youth in amateur radio. YOTA Month stations will be on all bands and modes at various times. In the US, the call signs will once again be K8Y, K8O, K8T, and K8A. Three ne...
Yellow Thunder A.R.C
Serving amateurs in Wisconsin since 1969
Aircraft Scatter on 6 Meter FT8
Operating Modes/Aircraft scatter
Aircraft scatter is easily seen on the spectrogram window of digital communication apps, when you know what to look for. Examples of real aircraft scatter usage on six meters band
Slow-Scan TV Transmissions from ISS Set for December 1 – 2
Help ARRL Reach Our $20,000 Goal on #GivingTuesday, November 30
Two on 10
Antennas/10M
A two element beam antenna for ten meters band. This home-brew two-element beam is the perfect introduction to rolling your own gain antenna
Telecoms customers saving millions as Ofcom rules bed in
More broadband and mobile customers are shopping around and signing up to better deals - and saving themselves millions of pounds
Andromedid meteor outburst
Radars in Canada have just detected an outburst of Andromedid meteors. The unexpected outburst means that Earth has encountered a stream of debris from Biela's Comet, a source of meteor storms in the 19th century
AIS in China: Media misreporting can be threat to radio hams
CRAC reports on the security risk in China of collecting and distributing either shipping AIS data or aircraft ADS-B data and the threat to radio amateurs from media misreporting
ARISS contact scheduled for students at Wolfgang-Kubelka-Realschule (WKR), Schondorf am Ammersee, Germany
his will be a telebridge contact via amateur radio and students will take turns asking their questions of Matthias Maurer, amateur radio call sign KI5KFH
ARISS team member Shane Lynd VK4KHZ will be the relay amateur radio station
Indonesian radio hams sign MoU with Defense University
The Defense University of the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian Defense University - Military Training) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Amateur Radio Organization of the Republic of Indonesia (Orari)
ARRL author, QST Technical Editor Joel Hallas, W1ZR, SK
The ARRL report: Retired QST Technical Editor Joel R. Hallas, W1ZR, of Westport, Connecticut, died on November 25
Slow-scan TV transmissions from ISS set for December 1-2
Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) plan to transmit slow-scan TV (SSTV) images on December 1 – 2 on 145.800 MHz FM using SSTV mode PD120
ARISS contact scheduled for students in Nuremberg, Germany
This will be a direct contact via amateur radio between astronaut Matthias Maurer KI5KFH onboard the International Space Station and students at Berufliche Schule Direktorat 1 Nurnberg, Nuremberg, Germany
160m Short Vertical Loft Antenna
Antennas/160M
This is a very small vertical 160m antenna that fits in the loft of even my small house. It was built as a way of getting a signal out on 160m for local AM contacts, but the local noise level was far too high to allow it to be used at night for this purpose. However, on WSPR it did a pretty good job with WSPR spots from a very long way across Europe being received when running 2.5W out.
Zimbabwe
Operators Tom DL7BO and Tom DJ6TF will be active as Z22O and Z21A, respectively, from Harare, Zimbabwe, between December 2-15th
St. Paul and Sable Islands
The CY9C DXpedition to St. Paul Island will take place during August 12-21st, 2022, and the CY0 DXpedition to Sable Island will take place during October 2022
Comoros Islands
Members of the F6KOP Radio Club are planning to activate Comoros Islands (AF-007) with a multi-national 12 operator team sometime between mid-to-end January in 2022
Still time to register for the SARL/AMSAT SA Technology Workshop
The joint SARL and AMSAT SA Technology workshop will run from 11:00 - 14:30 CAT on Saturday 4 December on the Blue Jeans Platform. There is still time to register for this event. Registration closes at 17:00 on Friday 3 December
Beacon Fund contributions have dried up
During the past month, contributions to the SARL Next Generation Beacon Fund have dried up
Dwingeloo Radio Telescope
A collaboration of Members of the CAMRAS Foundation, ESA, Lacuna Space, and Jan, PA3FXB have sent the Observatory's callsign PI9CAM on a round trip of 730,360km to the Moon and back
Truskmore back on air
Dave, Ei5IMB reports that the Donegal Amateur Radio Club, EI1DRC are happy to announce that the long-time offline but very well-known Truskmore 2m FM Analogue Repeater, EI2TKR has been rebuilt and resurrected in the form of a TAIT TB8100
Using an Arduino to upgrade a 1970s ham radio
Al Williams WD5GNR writes on Hackaday about upgrading the vintage Icom IC-245 with an Arduino
Ham radio operators unite woman with family after 37 years
A tribal lady, who had lost contact with her family at Bokaro in Jharkhand at least 37 years back, was reunited with them by ham radio operators on Sunday. The reunion deserves special mention as the 163rd birth anniversary of Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose - the father of Radio Science - being on November 30
Catching the chatter
Dr Sunil Furtado writes in the Deccan Herald newspaper about Short Wave Listening in the 1980's
Announcement of New Senior Leadership Team
n May 2020, Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, Inc. (ARISS-USA) created a new 501 (c) (3) non-profit charitable organization to enhance and expand ARISS initiatives in the USA. To support the variety of new functions and roles of this organization, ARISS-USA has augmented its Senior Leadership team by selecting five new members
5 element Yagi antenna for 10 meters band
Antennas/10M
This 10 meter antenna is right out of the ARRL Antenna Book. There are 5 elements on a 24 feet boom and it performs well from 28.0 to 28.9 MHz.
Govt asks Indians to not subscribe to Elon Musk’s satellite internet service Starlink
Elon Musk's SpaceX does not have the license to offer broadband internet services in India, said Ministry of Communication on Friday. It asked citizens not to subscribe to the service
Vintage Ham Radio Gets Brain Transplant
Old radios didn't have much in the way of smarts. But as digital synthesis became more common, radios often had as much digital electronics in them as RF circuits. The problem is that digital electronics get better and better every year, so what looked like high-tech one year is quaint the next
Radio Caroline on 648 khz power increase - reception report request
The opportunity arose to boost our power on 648 AM. This was beyond the ability of the existing Nautel machine. High power AM transmitters are not easily sourced now
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