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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 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