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Notes from the Museums: A Telegram Today’s generation possesses an ability to enter text messages and emails on a cell phone with lightning speed. In 1885, when a telegraph office was established in the train depot in Brooksville, telegrams were created with that kind of speed New VAT rules for imports from July 1st Ireland's IRTS News report that radio amateurs will be hit with higher costs as the European Union have announced that the VAT exemption at importation from non-EU countries of small consignments of a value up to 22 Euro will be removed from July 1st Amateur radio on BBC Guernsey The RSGB Twitter feed reports radio amateur Victoria Stamps GU0BEZ from Sark gave a fascinating interview to Claire Cathcart on BBC Guernsey on June 22 Spain's URE makes amateur radio magazine archive available Spain's national amateur radio society URE has digitized their old magazines from 1949 to 2020 and made the PDF's available for everyone to download from their website MDXC presentation available online For those who might have missed the excellent presentation (on June 8th), 'Modes of Propagation on 6 Meters,' by Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA, the complete program video is now available on the Madison DX Club's YouTube channel 70cm Beacon Technical Reference/Beacon keyers PLL synthesized 70cm CW beacon exciter. The exciter is built arround a slightly more advanced ADF-4351 single chip PLL synthesizer rather then (among amateurs) more popular Si-570 or Si-5351 integrated circuits. The exciter is capable of providing up to 250 mW of RF output power, Amateur Radio Club holds two-day event at USS Kidd The Baton Rouge Advocate reports that the Baton Rouge Amateur Radio Club members aboard the destroyer USS Kidd made radio contact with over 37 states, two Canadian providences and 10 other museum ships The new XIEGU X6100 portable HF transceiver: Yes, it's real and no it's not vaporware It seems folks are now finding out about the new Xiegu X6100 HF and 6 meter portable transceiver Norway: 820,000 kroner to support ham radio emergency comms The Norwegian Radio Relay League will receive more than NOK 820,000 (£69,651) from the Gjensidige Foundation to strengthen emergency preparedness EI2DKH transatlantic beacon update Tony EI8JK, keeper of the EI2DKH 2 metre transatlantic beacon located at Kilcrohane on the Sheep’s Head Peninsula in West Cork has announced that on advice received, the Q65 sub-mode has been changed from A to C, as sub-mode C is reported to be more sensitive for 144MHz IRTS News broadcasts continue on 4 metres The East Leinster Amateur Radio Club, EI0EL, successfully completed their monthly pilot of the IRTS News Broadcast on 4 Metres. Their next broadcast will be on Sunday next July 4th at 10.30am local time on a new frequency of 70.400MHz FM Norway: 711,000 kroner for ham radio online learning The Norwegian Radio Relay League will receive NOK 711,000 (£60,393) from the Research Council for the development of teaching material for amateur radio Story of Jodrell Bank The Story of Jodrell Bank is the next talk at Denby Dale amateur radio club. The speaker is Professor Ian Morison from the Jodrell Bank discovery centre Further adventures on 30 THz Third in the series showing the experiments by Barry Chambers G8AGN and Bob Harris G4APV in setting up communications in the 30 THz region in the pursuit of a world record at this frequency The facts on VK 2 X 1 competition callsigns A statement from The Radio Amateur Society of Australia Inc says: Over the past week or so, we have seen a bizarre series of posts from the WIA claiming credit for VK 2x1 competition callsigns M0XPDs Shack Nasties Homebrew, QRP, Beacons & Diplomatic / Spy Radio Kenwood Ts590 v Elecraft K3 Radio Equipment/Reviews and Comparisons Comparison of Kenwood Ts590 v Elecraft K3. Comparing the TS590s to the Elecraft K3 as far as ease of use, receive characteristics etc. Forum thread at QRZ.com Top Amateur Radio Websites - Issue 2124 Revisiting the Rybakov 806 Vertical Antenna, 100 Watts and a Wire, The Kenwood TS-590 Series Transceivers, Transverter for 50 70 28 MHz , Juma Keyer1, 60m Mods for the Icom IC-756, 23cm Low Noise Amplifier Never give up the ship Last week on Australia's WIA News, Jason VK2LAW brought us news of the Bouvet Island cancellation A contest for the new radio amateurs The SARL Newbie Party is a fun activity to encourage all new radio amateurs to become active Australian 2X1 Callsigns Great news for the Australian Amateur Radio Cohort after the WIAs affirmative call to action results in 2x1 Callsign announcement, after delays in the implementation of the 2X1 Callsigns for a substantial period of time of around 18 months The AMSAT-SA Space symposium on 10 July The programme for the 2021 AMSAT SA Space Symposium has been published on the SARL and AMSAT SA websites SolderSmoke Podcast 231 available Bill Meara M0HBR / N2CQR has released a new edition of the amateur radio SolderSmoke podcast FCC looking at amateur 420 MHz and 5 GHz allocations The FCC is looking at the proposed use by commercial space entities of parts of the USA's amateur radio allocations 420-430 MHz and 5650-5925 MHz QSO Today with Greg Algieri WA1JXR Greg Algieri, WA1JXR, began his ham radio journey by asking his dad for a Gillette Blue Razor Blade to make this first receiver, leading to amateur radio licenses, higher electronics education, and an entire career with Raytheon, where he worked in radio and antenna design ARRL Audio News - June 25, 2021 ARRL Audio News - June 25, 2021 DRCG DL-DX RTTY Contest group Dl-dx rtty contest group Bromley Repeater Group - Gateway Website and Forums of The Bromley Repeater Group which has been formed to launch and maintain the new Kent repeater, GB3OK. Located in Orpington and with an ASL of 600 feet, it's predicted to provide coverage over a large area of London and South East England. Also on Echolink node 280040 Portable HF Antenna Options Antennas/Portable Article on portable HF antenna where author diverge about antenna efficiency versus size based on his personal experience on using HF antennas during portable operations Bitcoin to the Moon: LABRE write to ANATEL Brazil's national amateur radio society LABRE has written to the communications regulator ANATEL regarding the alleged sending of Bitcoin via amateur radio Moonbounce (EME) Field Day 2021: ARRL extends temporary rule waivers Sponsored by the ARRL and RAC (but organized primarily by the ARRL), Field Day is open to all Amateur Radio operators covered by these two International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) member organizations Youth Radio Science Field Day To kick off this event, this summer we will start with a free Youth Radio Science Field Day event on Saturday, June 26th Roundabout Radio Adventures Richard Newstead G3CWI, has resumed making content for his popular Radio Adventures YouTube channel. He looks at all aspects of portable radio operating in a lighthearted but informative way 24th annual ILLW on track despite Covid The International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend is alive and well despite the global upheaval caused by Covid-19. This time last year we all thought we were looking at cancelling but regular supporters wanted the event to be a beacon of hope FCC Seeks Comments in Proceeding Involving 70 and 5 Centimeters