ARRL at Home May 21 – 23 Offering a Weekend of Specials
Amateurs’ Email Addresses Will Continue to Be Kept Private, FCC Says
Starting on June 29, all applications filed with the FCC must include an email address for FCC correspondence. After receipt of the initial announcement that all future applications would require an email address, ARRL was concerned for the privacy of its members and requested that amateurs’ email addresses not be made public. This week, the FCC agreed, stating in an email to ARRL counsel that ...
Dipole Antennas - Basics
Antennas/Dipole
Antenna most often used by Hams around the world. Inexpensive, effective and easy to build, what more could anyone ask for in a home made antenna.
Ofcom wants to allow people to install more phone repeaters
Ofcom wants people to be allowed to buy and install themselves a licence-exempt mobile phone repeater
Upcoming: YOTA Contest
The first YOTA Contest is coming closer and closer already. Only a few days left until Saturday 22nd May! Is your station ready and tested? Did you install the latest contest loggers to be prepared for the fun on the bands?
Carl Luetzelschwab K9LA discusses propagation and the forecast for Cycle 25
The Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club (FLARC) continues its highly acclaimed series of monthly speaker programs with one of the experts in solar propagation giving us a look ahead to Cycle 25
Ofcom confirm Foundation operation in UK territorial waters
In their EMF announcement of May 18 Ofcom confirmed again that Foundation and Intermediate licence holders may operate from UK Territorial Waters
YOTA Contest on Saturday May 22
The YOTA Contest on Saturday May 22 is open to every amateur radio operator in the world, there is a special category for people aged 25 or under
The Marconi CR100 - an iconic radio from the past
The Marconi CR100 was one of the many communications receivers that appeared on the government surplus market in the 1950s and 1960s. The receiver was a single conversion superhet covering LF, MF, and HF bands
RadCom Plus
RadCom Plus is the RSGB’s technical supplement for radio amateurs who want more in-depth information
Ofcom contact UK radio amateurs regarding EMF regulation
On Wednesday, May 19, Ofcom sent out an email to all the radio amateurs they have an email address for
K9JX Jacksonville Amateur Radio Society
A not-for-profit amateur radio Ham Radio organization that provides support for its members in all aspects of Amateur Radio, located in west central Illinois and services the Jacksonville, South Jacksonville and surrounding areas, in Morgan county.
WFView Open Source interface for Icom transceivers
Software/Radio Control
Wfview is a program that allows many modern Icom ham radio transceivers (such as the IC-7300, IC-9700, IC-7610, IC-R8600 and many others) to be controlled via a computer. wfview shows the gorgeous spectrum display on whatever display is connected, including projectors, touch screens, and TVs. wfview allows for full radio control from a computer keyboard and basic control from a numeric keypad. It works under Windows, Linux and MacOS
Mariana Island
Jim, ND9M (aka VQ9JC), who has been active as ND9M/mm from wet grids in the Pacific, is now anchored in Saipan (OC-086), and plans to go ashore and be active as ND9M/KH0
Hawaiian special event
Amateur Radio Operators will activate special-event station K6K to celebrate King Kamehameha the Great and Hawaii's rich history. K6K special event station will give HAMS a chance to add Hawaii to their logs to earn WAS or DCXX awards
60 Years Antarctic Treaty System
Volker DL8JDX, who visited the Antarctic numerous times, has suggested an event marking the date when the Antarctic Treaty System entered into force in 1961
ARISS contact is scheduled with students at Lycée Jean Moulin, Les Andelys, France
This will be a Multipoint Telebridge Contact via Amateur Radio between the ISS and students from Lycée Jean Moulin
QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo call for speakers
The QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo will return on August 14th and 15th, 2021
New 40 MHz propagation beacon now operational from the West of Ireland
A new 8-metre propagation beacon with the callsign EI1CAH is now operational from the west of Ireland and it transmits on a frequency of 40.016 MHz
Ofcom issue new amateur radio licence Terms and Conditions
On Tuesday, May 18, Ofcom confirmed the new EMF licence condition for Radio Amateurs and most other licenced radio users
To transform ot not to transform - Feed Lines
Antennas/Feed Lines
Transmission lines have many uses other than simply transferring RF power from one point to another.
Impedance matching, baluns and filters are probable the most common of these.
Bouvet Island DXpedition news
Ken, LA7GIA, 3Y0J Co-Leader, reported on the 3Y0J FaceBook page that the German DX Foundation (GDXF) confirms their record breaking donation of 8000 Euro/10,000 USDs to the 3Y0J DXpedition!!
Direct QSLing to cost more from May 27th
The Irish Radio Transmitters Society say the cost of mailing QSL cards is going to get more expensive from May 27th when An Post increase postal rates
SARL-100 Working Group
The SARL-100 Working Group was created during the Council meeting on Tuesday 11 May 2021 with the aim to collect the history of the SARL
EI0HQ in the 2021 IARU HF Championship
The IRTS contest manager is still looking for volunteers to operate EI0HQ on some single bands in the IARU HF Championships on July 10th and 11th
Dare to Repair
Mark Miodownik examines why electronic gadgets and household goods don’t last and are hard to repair and what’s being done to fix the problem
ARISS contact scheduled for students at Monaro High School, Cooma, New South Wales, Australia
This will be a telebridge contact via amateur radio
Netherlands: Repeaters and Beacons to be hit with 79 Euro charge
VERON reports an additional change of 79 Euros a year is being levied on amateur radio Repeaters and Beacons in a move that is detrimental to experimental radio research
IRTS Radio Amateur Exam closing date
The Irish Radio Transmitters Society (IRTS) Examination Board has announced 2 pm on Friday, May 21st, as the closing date for anyone wishing to sit the next Amateur Radio Station Examination
F8DZYs blog
HAM RADIO only F8DZY's blog, french ham radio station.
Easy Sleeve Balun
Antennas/Baluns
A simple and effective sleeve type balun is easily built. This Balun can be adapted to any band. While the dimensions are not critical ( +/- 10%), it is still basically a mono band device
Top Amateur Radio Websites - Issue 2118
Build your own Windom Antenna, Ham Radio Clip Art by GoGraph , HF communication prediction tools, Sunspot Index Since 1750, Real-time ionogram , Calculation of the Maximum Usable Frequency , Home Built 6M J-Pole Antenna
INDEXA Spring Newsletter
The Spring 2021 Issue of the INDEXA Newsletter (Issue 132) is now available
YOTA Contest
The first round of the Youngsters on the Air contest will be taking place next weekend on 22nd of May, from 0800 to 1959 UTC, on bands 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m, 10m, CW and SSB
A Spy in Every Embassy
'The intelligence coup of the century'. The extraordinary story of the longest running and most successful secret intelligence operation of the 20th Century
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