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Contests on QO-100 allowed in time for Yuri Gagarin contest On April 4, AMSAT-DL opened the QO-100 NB satellite transponder to general contest operation in the upper mixed-mode range. This weekend (April 10-11) will see the Yuri Gagarin contest Lima Alfa Contest Club Norwegian contesting club located in the southeast part of Norway 5 Band Pipe Vertical Antenna Antennas/Vertical A simple, cheap and easy to build 26 feet long vertical antenna that works DX on 20 - 10 meters including WARC Bands, it is designed for portability for field days, camping, or permanent installation, cost, and to achieve at least 1/2 wavelength on the WARC bands. UKEICC SSB one hour contest The final UKEICC SSB one hour contest of this season will be held on Wednesday April 7th starting at 2000 EI2IMD on the air for International Marconi Day The South Eastern Amateur Radio Group EI2WRC will be QRV as EI2IMD on Saturday April 24th as an official Marconi station for the International Marconi Day 2021 Home QTH contest Today, Easter Monday, IRTS is running a one-hour 'Home QTH' contest on 2 metres, starting at 3.00pm local time ARISS contact for students at The School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, Southern Hemisphere Space Studies Program 2021, Mawson Lakes, SA, Australia The ARISS radio contact is scheduled for April 6, 2021 11:27 UTC. IK1SLD in Casale Monferrato, Italy. will serve as the ARISS relay amateur radio ground station Live from PJ2T Geoff PJ2DX will be presenting the next talk at Denby Dale amateur radio club 11-year-old radio ham presented with transceiver The El Defensor Chieftain reports eleven-year-old Keller Ford is now a licensed amateur radio operator, he has the callsign KI5PGE Cyprus radio hams remove discriminatory language At their AGM held on March 21, the Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CARS) made changes to their Constitution to make it gender neutral as part of an effort to make the Society more welcoming to female members VO1FN: The 144 MHz Trans-Atlantic SDR Monitoring Station John Desmond EI7GL writes in his blog about the VO1FM monitoring station in St. Johns Newfoundland that will be listening for trans-Atlantic FT8 signals LA3F - Follogruppen av NRRL. Hjemmesiden til Follogruppen av Norsk Radio Relc Liga A QRP Transmatch ATU Antennas/Tuners A home made Antenna Tuner made with a simple inductor and a few spare parts. Despite the title, the author succesfully tested this ATU with higher power inputs. Top Amateur Radio Websites - Issue 2113 High Performance common-mode chokes, A Practical, 5-Band Homebrew Wire Beam , Morse Code Course by UBA, What is a HAM Mesh Network, Online dBm to watts conversion, Free Virtual Serial Port, mW to dBm Calculator, Southgate Vibes Podcast #47 Steve Richards G4HPE is here with the latest edition of Southgate Vibes. There's two new episodes every week - on Tuesdays and Fridays West Rand Amateur Radio Club's Open Day All interested parties are invited to the West Rand Amateur Radio Club's Open Day and Tech Talk on Saturday 10 April 2021 at the Club House in Kroton Street South, Weltevreden Park Radio Amateurs Old Timers Club Hello everyone, this is Clive VK6CSW wishing you all a Happy Easter and reminding you that Easter Monday is also the first Monday of month and time for the Radio Amateurs Old Timers Club of Australia's April bulletin to go to air Email safety The WIA report there has been a bit of a phising attack on some @wia.org.au emails Last radio repair shop in Telangana Arab News reports on two aging brothers in Hyderabad who run the last radio repair shop in southern Indian state Autumn QRP contest In South Africa, the QRP contests are intended to be fun activities to promote QRP operation between radio amateurs QSO Today Episode 331 - Michelle Thompson W5NYV Written Transcription now available QSO Today Episode 311 with Michelle Thompson W5NYV now has a written transcription of the interview between Eric 4Z1UG and Michelle thanks to Wayne Yoshida, KH6WZ Reminder PACCdigi contest Dear YL, OM , SWL We would like to invite you to take part in the first Dutch PACCdigi contest Draft Type Approval regulations published http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2021/april/draft-type-approval-regulations-published.htm Germany and Austria release new ham radio callbooks The communications regulators in Germany and Austria have made new editions of their national amateur radio callbooks available for free download ARRL Audio News - April 2, 2021 ARRL Audio News - April 2, 2021 Arduino si5351 VFO sketch Technical Reference/Arduino Sketch for an Arduino and si5351 to implement a VFO, BFO, CW, keyer, and control NASA to host virtual viewing of Orion Spacecraft drop test Engineers will drop an 14,000-pounds test version of the Orion spacecraft into the Hydro Impact Basin at NASA's Langley Research Center's Landing and Impact Research Facility in Hampton, Virginia at 1:45 p.m. EDT Tuesday, April 6 ACMA seeks feedback on draft five-year spectrum outlook WIA News reports Australia's communications regulator, the ACMA, is requesting comments on its draft spectrum outlook 2021-2-25 Radio Amateurs remember AM and CW on ANZAC Day, 25th April The traditional AM and CW event organised by Mike 'Banjo' Patterson VK4MIK and the Tablelands Radio Group of Far North Queensland, will take to the air for the 10th year Winmalee students to speak to astronauts Winmalee Public will become ground control later this month when eight students talk to an astronaut on the International Space Station Talks given at QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo available online The keynote speech by David Minster, NA2AA, CEO of ARRL, along with other presentations given at the QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo, March 13-14, are available online Online Comm Academy 2021 is set for April 10 – 11 ICOM IC-R9500 Review Radio Equipment/Receivers Review of the ICOM IC-R9500 Wide Band DSP Receiver IRTS Contests The 2 metres contest on Easter Monday, April 5th will be a fixed 'Home QTH' contest with distance-scoring. It will run from 3.00pm to 4.00pm local time Radio Amateurs of Canada survey The national association for Amateur Radio in Canada, is now conducting an online survey to find out how to better serve Canadian Amateurs