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VHQ HEX BEAM Antennas Manufacturers/Antennas/HF/HexBeam New generation Hex Beam Antennas. VHQ HEX Products, located in Peterborough, NH, is owned and operated by David M. Lavoie. Our products are designed to solve issues encountered in Ham radio applications and move with todays configurations in an ever changing climate The Senator was a ham - Barry Goldwater and amateur radio Marilyn Murphy, Communication Manager for the Arizona Historical Society, announces that the Arizona Historical Society is hosting a virtual program looking at Arizona's most famous amateur radio operator, Marilyn Murphy, Communication Manager for the Arizona Historical Society, announces that the Arizona Historical Society is hosting a virtual program looking at Arizona's most famous amateur radio operator, Barry Goldwater Northern Ireland special event Members of the North West Amateur Radio Club (MN0NWG) will be active as GB0AEL from Londonderry between May 15-23rd Workshop for attorneys under consideration for 2022 ARRL National Convention in Orlando The Amateur Radio Legal Defense and Assistance Committee (ARLDAC) is considering hosting a half-day workshop for attorneys at the ARRL 2022 National Convention in Orlando. This would be for attorneys only, and attendees would be eligible to earn continuing legal education (CLE) credit in their respective states Mobile strategy review terms of reference Ofcom has today published the terms of reference for its upcoming mobile strategy review The ever-shrinking radio spectrum Our phones, the key-fobs that control our alarms, cars and other devices. TV broadcasts, wifi -- in fact almost every aspect of electronics, right down to the humble light bulb, now has an element of radio-frequency communications built into it QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo - Call for Speakers The QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo will return on August 14th and 15th, 2021 Essex CW Club Morse Boot Camp date announced The annual CW Boot Camp will be held in Witham, Essex, on Saturday, October 16, 2021 W3EXW North Hills Amateur Radio Club A 222 MHz Transverter Technical Reference/Transverters The original project was published in July 1993 QEX magazine. IF of 28 MHz for Tx and Rx. Original Design by Zack Lau (W1VT), this project and supplemental notes by Rick Bandla (VE3CVG) AN5, Spanish Special Event Members of the Torrent Digital Radio are now active with the special callsign AN5OKW until May 13th. Activity is to mark the 76th anniversary of the surrender of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht 'OKW', and the end of the Second World War in Europe Japanese special event The following special event station are now on the air to commemorate the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics until September 5th ARISS contact is scheduled with students at Collège Descartes, Antony, France Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has received schedule confirmation for an ARISS radio contact with astronauts The Sodium Tail of Mercury Mercury has sprouted a tail. Intense sunlight is blowing material away from the planet, turning Mercury into a kind of oversized comet IRTS AGM rejects new licence level proposal IRTS News reports that at the AGM, held April 24, a proposal to introduce a new licence level in Eire was defeated Ofcom may remove product listings from eBay BBC reports the online sales platform eBay is handing Ofcom the power to remove listings, theoretically this could enable Ofcom to remove products that do not conform to EMC requirements Finland: SRAL Annual Report Finland's national amateur radio society, the SRAL, has made available their annual report for 2020 QSO Today- Larry Tyree N6TR Larry Tyree, or 'Tree', as he is known in amateur radio circles, loves to operate contests, work DX on 160 meters, from his 28 hilltop acres in the Oregon forest, near Portland Holiday City Amateur Radio Club The Holiday City Amateur Radio Club (HCARC) invites all hams or prospective hams to join our club. We are an ARRL affiliated club and have members eager to help others to achieve licensing or to up-grade their present license privileges. VHF Bi-Square Beam Antenna Antennas/2M 2 Wavelength ,2 Meter Bi-Square Beam , 5dbd gain. This antennas are very cheeap to build and their radiation pattern is similar to a figure 8 with maximum signal through the loop but they may be used as a near-omnidirectional antenna Early Morning Coffee Sprint The Early Morning Coffee Sprint is on the air from 03:00 UTC to 05:00 UTC (05:00 to 07:00 CAT) on Wednesday 12 May with phone activity on 80 metres Type Approval discussion on Thursday evening 13 May The SARL will hold another discussion on how it will respond to ICASA on the draft Type Approval regulations Howth Martello Tower on air for International Marconi Day Tony, EI5EM operated EI0MAR during the recent International Marconi Day event, from the Martello tower in Howth, as a solo effort due to Coviod-19 restrictions SARL Next Generation Beacon fund stands at R9 800 The crowdfunding initiative to collect funds for the SARL Next Generation Beacon Programme started by AMSAT SA, has to date collected R9 800. This is far from the R60 000 target to finance a beacon in the Karoo and the Western Cape ICQPodcast - Does ham radio need to rebrand? In this episode, Martin (M1MRB) is joined by Chris Howard (M0TCH), Martin Rothwell (M0SGL), Ed Durrant (DD5LP), Frank Howell (K4FMH) and Bill Barnes (WC3B) to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and in the episode we feature Do we need to rebrand? Unboxing the Raspberry Pi RTL-SDR Kit Computers and digital techniques have become very popular among amateur radio operators as even a cheap Raspberry Pi computer can run almost all amateur radio software. Together with an RTL-SDR USB stick a low-cost software-defined radio (SDR) system is obtained sporting a rich feature set Neutron-1 CubeSat team needs your help The Neutron-1 CubeSat team is looking for Amateurs around the world to help troubleshoot its satellite InnovAntennas Ltd (IA). and WiMo Antennas and Elektronik GmbH, Herxheim Germany, enter into closer cooperation In 2018, UK production of all short wave and a selection of FM antennas (Innov) from the UK to WiMo Antennas and Elektronik GmbH (WiMo) in Germany was moved from Great Britain. The move has proven to be successful, so both companies have agreed to extend and expand the current agreement New amateur bands for VK highly unlikely The WIA recently published their response to the Australian regulator's five Year Spectrum Outlook (FYSO) Ham Radio Prep teams up with FliteTest crew for high-powered radio control video Ham Radio Prep, the nation’s fastest growing amateur radio education program, recently partnered with FliteTest in the production of a video to promote the use of ham radio for high-powered hobby flights as well as the use of activities such as drones in science, technology, engineering and mathematics education Halo Antenna for 50 MHz Antennas/6M The antenna described in this article is for 50 MHz, but the design can be scaled for any band, including VHF, UHF, or even the higher HF bands. The antenna is nothing more than a square loop of wire, approximately 30" (or ~76cm) per side. The loop is fed in the middle of one side, and the opposite side to the feed point has a gap in it. Top Amateur Radio Websites - Issue 2117 5 Band Pipe Vertical Antenna, Moxon Beam for 2m, Simple J-Pole for the 2m band, Ham Radio: Using Repeaters, WebSDR Wismar, DARC Contest Calendar, VSPE - Free Serial Port Receiving unintentionally radiated signals from the computer system bus with an RTL SDR Back in 2018 we first posted about 'System Bus Radio' which is code and a web based app that allows you to transmit RF directly from your computer without any transmitting hardware MIT Radio Society to rebuild radome thanks to ARDC grant Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) has provided a grant to help rebuild the MIT Radio Society radome Congress seeks to designate National Amateur Radio Operators Day The U.S. Congress is reportedly taking steps to officially recognize the important contributions made by amateur radio operators