Parsippany Emergency Management hosting amateur radio event
In New Jersey, Parsippany's Office of Emergency Management and about 40K in North America will communicate via ham radios in the Field Day Challenge
Saratoga Amateur Radio Association
The Saratoga Amateur Radio Association provides emergency communications for the City of Saratoga, and promotes amateur radio in the community.
Basic Microwave Antennas
Antennas/Microwave
Utility-Driven Tradeoff Analysis, if you want to geto on the microwave bands , you will have to choose the proper antenna for your operating conditions. How to decide is not always easy, and you may also decide to build your own antenna.
VK 20 HOME
Don't forget that the WIA special event callsign VK 20 HOME is still available for members to use until December 31st 2021
Next Generation beacon fund tops R18 000
The Next Generation beacon fund administered by AMSAT SA topped the R18 000 mark and currently stands at R18 150
ARISS contact is scheduled with students in France at Collège Albert Camus in La Norville and Université Paris-Saclay in Saint-Aubin
Students will take turns asking their questions of ISS Astronaut Thomas Pesquet, amateur radio call sign KG5FYG
Field Day, but sure
Are you planning to participate in a Field Day soon? Or in a SOTA activation, in a DXpedition or in any other radio activity outside the QTH? Do you have any insurance that covers any unforeseen risk that may occur?
Ofcom publish British Grand Prix frequencies
A Freedom of Information request asked Ofcom for the frequencies to be used at the F1 British Grand Prix 2021 at Silverstone
YOTA Contest - July 18
The first Youngsters On The Air (YOTA) Contest has already taken place and was a big success, the next contest will take place on Sunday, July 18
3Y0J DXpedition to Bouvet Island Cancelled
The Intrepid-DX Group announced over the weekend that it has cancelled its long-anticipated 3Y0J DXpedition to Bouvet Island. The DXpedition team had planned to travel to Bouvet via the RV Braveheart, owned by Nigel Jolly, K6NRJ. Jolly has told the DXpedition that Braveheart is being sold and he’s cancelled its contract for the 3Y0J voyage. “The global pandemic has impacted the expedition chart...
Homebrewing a 6 Meter Yagi
Antennas/6M/6 meter Yagi Antennas
Six meters is a great band for home built Yagis. The elements are reasonably small, but not so small that building tolerances are critical. With careful construction and detailed instructions, it is certainly feasible to build no-tune Yagis up to 432 MHz.
Research on vulnerable customers’ experiences of contacting telecoms providers
Ofcom has today published qualitative research on the customer service some vulnerable people have experienced when getting in touch with their phone, broadband or pay-TV provider recently
Ham radio operator helps watch over community
The Roswell Daily Record interviews Jim Tucker KB0QNW who is Skywarn coordinator for amateur radio in Chaves County, New Mexico
Wirral radio amateur and UFO's
Tom Slemen writes in the Wirral Globe about a radio amateur who investigated Unidentified Flying Objects
ARISS contact with school in La Norville, France
An ARISS educational school contact is planned for Thomas Pesquet KG5FYG with students at College Albert Camus, La Norville, France and Universite Paris-Saclay, Saint Aubin, France
Navajo Code Talkers special event
Look for Special Event Station (SES) N7C to be active between August 10-14th
Amateur Radio on Shuttle, Mir and ISS
ARISS report there will be an 'Amateur Radio on Shuttle, Mir and ISS' Slow Scan TV (SSTV) event from June 21-26. Transmissions from the International Space Station will be on 145.800 MHz FM using PD120
3Y0J Bouvet Island Dxpedition
The global pandemic has impacted the expedition charter vessel business very hard; this includes the venerable RV Braveheart which has provided outstanding safety and service to many DXpeditions. As you know, we had signed a contract with Braveheart for 3Y0J
IAT Interactive Antenna Table
Antennas/VHF UHF
IAT is an excel sheet table evaluate parameters of VHF UHF antennas edited by Vladimir UR5EAZ. The difference between this tool and the existing VE7BQH Antenna Table is the use of G / T and C / N instead of the G / Ta parameter. In this table, Vladimir applies the ITU recommendations to assess the noise properties of a radio receiving system and shows the advantage of the G / T concept over the G / Ta concept when choosing an antenna.
Shortwave Listener Award - The Ian Morris Memorial Trophy
The South Dublin Radio Club, in honour of the late Ian Morris EI6U, donated this perpetual trophy to the Irish Radio Transmitters Society. Ian was a member of the committee of the Society for many years and was a very proficient CW, Field Day and contest operator
IRTS 40 Metre News
Propagation conditions on Sunday mornings around 11 o'clock do not currently favour inter-EI communications and this is a problem for the IRTS news broadcast on 7.123MHz at 1100 local time
Two international speakers at AMSAT SA Space Symposium
AMSAT SA has announced that the 2021 Space Symposium will be held from 10:00 - 15:00 CAT on Saturday 10 July 2021 on the BlueJeans platform
Voortrekkers using special event call sign
In celebration of the Voortrekker Movement's 90th anniversary, a special event call sign, ZS90VTK, has been issued. The call sign will be activated on 16 June 2021, Youth Day, from the roof of the Voortrekker Monument
CHIME telescope detects more than 500 mysterious fast radio bursts in its first year of operation
Observations quadruple the number of known radio bursts and reveal two types: one-offs and repeaters
HAREC Examination
The following statement was issued by the IRTS Examination Board on Saturday June 12th
Transatlantic Tests 100 Centenary
On the 12th December 1921, Paul Godley, 2ZE, received the first complete and verified amateur radio short wave transatlantic message ever sent, from a station based in Greenwich, Connecticut '1BCG'
MIR-SAT1 to deploy from ISS
The first amateur radio CubeSat from Mauritius is expected to be deployed from the International Space Station on June 22
HexBeam Antenna Explained
Antennas/HexBeam
A hexagonal beam is a form of the Yagi antenna which is based on parasitic principles developed early in the last century in Japan for achieving gain in one direction.How HexBeam antennas works. A hexagonal beam operates exactly like Yagi antenna, but instead of a driven element that is straight like a dipole, it is a wire bent into the shape of the letter M.
Top Amateur Radio Websites - Issue 2122
The Magloop Antenna Calculator, VHQ HEX BEAM Antennas, VHF Bi-Square Beam Antenna, 50 MHz CLC antenna , Display Transplant into an Icom IC-756, ZCZ Cluster, A 222 MHz Transverter,
WA3RNC’S TR-25 and upcoming TR-45L transceiver kits
Here is a compact but powerful 2-band CW transceiver kit that uses no tiny pushbuttons, and without those seemingly endless and hard-to-remember back menus. There is a knob or a switch for every function!
Fly me to the moon
The first Bitcoin transaction using the moon was conducted in April when Brazilian researchers sent morse code radio signals to deflect off the moon down to Earth, and completed a Bitcoin transaction
Does the future of CW look like this?
Tired of trying to learn Morse code? Searching for a state-of-the-art decoder/encoder companion for your station that keeps right on working when the band gets noisy, and doubles as a portable QRP transceiver? Stop looking! It’s here!
RTÉ essential maintenance
RTÉ will carry out essential maintenance of the Long Wave (LW) transmitter in Clarkstown, Co. Meath from 15th June 2021 for two months during which period RTÉ Radio 1 will not be available on LW 252
ZS4BFN from the Franklin Game Reserve
The Franklin Game Reserve (ZSFF-0127) is located on Naval Hill in the centre of Bloemfontein and is the only game reserve to be found in the middle of a city
The Future of Amateur Radio workshop
On June 12 the IARU Region 1 Workshop on the Future of Amateur Radio continued with a session addressing Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
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