Amateur Radio Direction Finding
Radio direction finding has existed for nearly as long as radio itself (the late 19th century). The military uses it for practical reasons, utilizing it to 'triangulate,' or locate, hidden military bases, transmitters, and submarines that would otherwise be a secret
The SARL Virtual AGM next Saturday
Have you registered for the 2021 SARL Annual General Meeting which will be held next Saturday, Saturday 17 April, using the BlueJeans platform?
NASA's Mars helicopter to make first flight attempt today
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is just a few hours away from making humanity’s first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet
South West's Wessex Ham to close
Wessex Ham MX0WSX which aimed to provide a gateway to amateur radio, local clubs, activities and training in the South-West of England, is to close
ARRL Audio News - April 9, 2021
ARRL Audio News - April 9, 2021
DARC Contest Calendar
DX Resources/Contest Calendars
Yearly contest calendar compiled and manteined BY DARC with weekly and montly HF Contest calendar
New research doubles the odds of extreme geomagnetic storms
A new study just published in the research journal Space Weather finds that extreme geomagnetic storms happen twice as often as previously thought
Volunteer Monitor Program Report
The Volunteer Monitor (VM) Program is a joint initiative between ARRL and the FCC to enhance compliance in the Amateur Radio Service. This is the March 2021 Volunteer Monitor Program Report
Production delay for IC-7100 transceiver
Due to some key components being discontinued, the Icom IC-7100 may not be back in full production until August
Promoting amateur radio to the public
In the latest edition of QNews Geoff Emery VK4ZPP asks how much do we promote amateur radio? and if we do, what follow up is there?
Wickford crook tried to sell £2,000 of radio gear from amateur radio group
The Echo reports that a crook tried to sell off more than £2,000 worth of equipment stolen from an amateur radio society
RSGB Patron passed away peacefully Friday morning
The patron of the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) His Royal Highness, The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, passed away on April 9, aged 99
YOTA Announces New Three-Times-a-Year Contest
“Team YOTA” of Youngsters on the Air in IARU Region 1 has announced it will sponsor a new contest, the YOTA Contest. Open to all radio amateurs, it takes place three times a year and runs just 12 hours. YOTA said the aim is to boost on-the-air activity by younger radio amateurs and to support YOTA. The contest will take place on different 12-hour windows on three Saturdays. The opening event wil...
Traditional Amateur Radio Contesting Faces a Demographic Cliff
Frank Howell, K4FMH, followed up his two-part National Contest Journal (NCJ) series, “The Demographics of Contesting,” with a post to his Social Circuits blog, called “Lemmings over a Demographic Cliff?” (His original articles appeared in the July/August and September/October 2020 issues of NCJ.) Howell points to data showing that radio contesters are older than the average ARRL member. Taking ...
ARISS USA Gets IRS 501(c)(3) Recognition
ARISS-USA, a Maryland nonprofit corporation, has earned recognition from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as a Section 501(c)(3) charitable, scientific, and educational organization. ARISS-USA is the US segment of the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) international working group. With this IRS determination, donations to ARISS-USA become tax-deductible in the US, ret...
March 2021 Volunteer Monitor Program Report
The Volunteer Monitor (VM) Program is a joint initiative between ARRL and the FCC to enhance compliance in the Amateur Radio Service. This is the March 2021 Volunteer Monitor Program Report The FCC delayed action on the renewal application of a General Class licensee in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, in order to review allegations of repeated transmission of obscenities and failure to properly identi...
Prince George Amateur Radio Club
Moxon Beam for 2m
Antennas/Moxon
A home made, dirty and quick moxon antenna for 144 MHz made with PVC pipes.
W.I.A.R.C. West Island Amateur Radio Club
VSPE - Free Serial Port
Software/Virtual Serial Port
Virtual Serial Ports Emulator for Windows. Virtual Serial Ports Emulator tool (and VSPE API) is free on 32 bit platform and can be used with no charge for any purpose. No registration or activation key is required.
NanoVNA-H4 Vector Network Analyzer
NanoVNA-H4 Vector Network Analyzer - 10KHz-1.5GHz HF VHF UHF Antenna Analyzer with 4-inch LCD touchscreen,portable with 1950mAh battery
An ESP32 walkie-talkie for those spy radio moments
One of the most thrilling childhood toys for the adventurous 1970s or 1980s kid was probably the toy walkie-talkie. It didn't matter that they were a very simple AM low-end-VHF radio with a range of about 500m and a Morse key of debatable utility, you could talk clandestinely with your friends, and be a more convincing spy, or commando, or whatever was the game of the moment
Sprite season begins
This week, a magnificent display of jellyfish sprites over Kansas kicked off the spring season for upward-directed 'space lightning.'
Amateur radio community invited to take part in MARS exercise on 60 meters
Radio amateurs are invited to take part in the MARS exercise now under way until April 10 in support of the US Department of Defense. The five USB channelized 60-meter frequencies are available for interoperability (communication between services)
Past ARRL San Diego Section Manager and Southwest Division Vice Director Tuck Miller, NF9T - SK
Past ARRL San Diego Section Manager (SM) and Southwest Division Vice Director Tuck Miller, NF9T (ex-NZ6T), of Danville, Illinois, died on March 10. An ARRL Life Member, he was 67
2017-18 charges for German radio hams
Germany's Federal Network Agency BNetzA will be billing radio amateurs for 34.52 Euros to cover the cost of providing services in 2017 and 2018
Simple J-Pole for the 2m band
Antennas/J-Pole
A very essential j-pole antenna for 144 MHz. To adjust the SWR you will have to play with the 40mm distance between the coax feed and the braid inner conductor connection
N7BYU Brigham Young University Amateur Radio Club
Brigham Young University Amateur Radio Club (BYUARC) was founded in 1949 and has been headquartered in several places on BYU campus over the years, finally coming to its permanent location in the Wilkinson Student Center in the 1970s.
Ham Radio: Using Repeaters
Operating Modes/Repeaters
The most basic form of repeater receives communication on one frequency and re-transmits at a different frequency. This is known as duplex communication.
Repeaters are generally set up to operate with FM modulation on the amateur bands within the VHF (30 MHZ – 300 MHZ) and UHF frequencies (300 MHZ – 3 GHz). These are generally the frequencies used by handheld and mobile devices.
HamFest 2021
The Moorabbin and District Amateur Radio club is pleased to announce the 2021 HamFest will be on Saturday 8th May, with doors opening at 10am
Celebrate World Amateur Radio Day
Sunday 18 April is World Amateur Radio Day (WARD) and this year marks the 96th anniversary of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU), which was founded at the 1925 International Radiotelegraph Conference in Paris
SARL virtual AGM
The 2021 SARL Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday 17 April on the Bluejeans platform
Watch next space station crew launch live on NASA TV, NASA App
Three space travelers, including NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, KG5GNP, are poised to launch Friday, April 9, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station
New National Shortwave Listeners Club
A new club to cater for the needs of shortwave listeners and aspiring radio amateurs was launched during the week
Oklahoma SM Kevin O’Dell, N0IRW, stepping down; Mark Kleine, N5HZR, appointed as OK SM
Kevin O’Dell, N0IRW, Oklahoma’s long-serving Section Manager (SM) — serving two terms from 2010 to 2014 and again serving since 2016 — has decided to step down effective April 9, 2021
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