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Israel special event/contest Operators Ruben/4Z5FI and Jan/4X1VF will be active as 4X73T during the Holy Land Contest between 2100 UTC, Friday, April 16th, and 2100 UTC, Saturday, April 17th St. Patrick's Day activity Mike KD2DYY from New York reports a very successful Irish Hour net on 14.176MHz on St. Patrick's Day NASA mega Moon rocket passes key test, readies for launch The largest rocket element NASA has ever built, the core stage of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, fired its four RS-25 engines for 8 minutes and 19 seconds Thursday at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi Activity Days 'The warriors of Vinnitsa' 20-23 of March 2021 will be activity days of the Club WW radioamateurs in Vinnitsa region of Ukraine YOTA Online session 11 YOTA Online session #11, will take place from 19:00 UTC on Thursday 25 March 2021 and the main topic will be 'JOTA - Scouts in Ham Radio.' Online Talk: Using Raspberry Pi and Arduino in ham radio The Denby Dale ARS will be hosting an online talk on Zoom on using the Raspberry Pi and the Arduino in amateur radio by Anthony F4GOH on Wednesday, March 24 at 7:30 pm Going QRT with a bang! KA6LMS special event If you’re a fan of Tim Allen’s TV series Last Man Standing, you’ll have a final chance to contact the show’s Amateur Radio Club station before it goes QRT W7VNJ Casper Amateur Radio Club CASPERARC amateur radio club in Casper Wyoming DxCalendar by DXCenter DX Resources/Newsletters DxCalendar news from DX international scene. DX Bullettin with DX Stations calendar Italian settler special event To commemorate the 117th anniversary of the arrival of Italian settlers and the foundation of the locality of Capitan Pastene in southern Chile (Nova Italia at its beginnings), look for the following stations to be active until March 28th World Amateur Radio Day special event Alex, PA1AW, will be active with the special callsign PA96WARD celebrating 'World Amateur Radio Day 2021' (WARD) on April 18th Police report that white supremacists are attacking cell phone towers According to The Intercept, conspiracy theorists and far-right white supremacist groups are increasingly targeting cellphone towers and other critical infrastructure 'to incite fear, disrupt essential services, and cause economic damage with the United States and abroad.' Science Foundation restarted in September and October. But ALMA had a tough path to reopening Its location on the 5000-meter-tall Chajnantor Plateau is higher than most other telescopes, so high that some staff need oxygen to work Central Coast Amateur Radio Club 21st March 2021 The club wishes to announce the Central Coast Amateur Radio Club 'Mayham' event will be held on Sunday the 30th of May 2021 at Wyong Race Course Auroras in the USA This morning, auroras spilled across the Canadian border into northern-tier US states during an unexpectedly-strong G2-class geomagnetic storm The SARL Technology Symposium on 27 March Have you registered for the Unlocking Amateur Radio which will take place from 10:00 to 14:15 CAT on 27 March 2021? FreePCB Software/Circuit Design FreePCB is a free, open-source PCB editor for Microsoft Windows, released under the GNU General Public License. It was designed to be easy to learn and easy to use, yet capable of professional-quality work. Top Amateur Radio Websites - Issue 2111 OM0ET Antennas, BalUn for Delta-loop & Quad-loop antennas, Gimme Five - QRP SSB Transceiver, Single element Delta Loop Antenna, GridTracker, com0com Null-modem emulator , Analyze Contest Passing ARRL Audio News - March 19. 2021 ARRL Audio News - March 19. 2021 Radio Amateurs of Lebanon Assocation des Radio Amateurs Libanais NC7G Highline Amateur Radio Club The Highline Amateur Radio Club strives to render public service through Amateur Radio. HARC also wishes to bring together radio enthusiasts to enjoy this exciting hobby in the surrounding communities. ARI Firenze Firenze section of Associazione Radioamatori Italiani White Tower DX Team White Tower DX Team DX peditions and contests team from Greece 40m loaded dipole Antennas/40M/40 meter Dipole Antennas This is an short dipole for 7 MHz. Total length of this dipole is just 10 meters, 33 feet. Missing lenght is balanced by a coil made of 49 turns of a 40mm diameter pvc pipe. The use of a choke balun is recommended, as always, to adapt the unbalanced coax cable to the balanced antenna, and to prevent RF feed back along the coax shield. Ofcom invites applications for 'limited coverage' FM radio licences Ofcom is inviting applications for 'limited coverage' FM restricted service radio licences as part of a new trial GB100, Wales John, MW1CFN, will be active as GB1004FTS from Anglesey Island (EU-005), an island off the mainland's northwest coast, between March 25th and April 8th New CQ WPX Activity Map Randy, K5ZD, CQ WPX Web Manager, posted the following: We are always looking for new and interesting ways to present the results of the CQ WPX Contest The Early Years of Amateur Radio The Antique Wireless Assocition has released another vintage presentation from its collection AH-705 HF/50 MHz Automatic Antenna Tuner for the IC-705, now available! The AH-705 is a small portable antenna tuner that has been designed to work between the 1.8-50MHz bands 5 MHz Exercise Blue Ham March 20-21 During this weekend March 20-21, the Royal Air Force Air Cadets (RAFAC), CCF, ACF and SCC Callsigns look forward to operating on 5 MHz with as many Radio Amateur Stations as possible during Exercise Blue Ham Ofcom: New Draft UK Amateur Radio licence The draft of the new Amateur Radio licence expected to take effect on May 18 is available on the Ofcom site, comments can be submitted up until April 18 QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo Experiences Technical Issues, On-Demand Access Opens Plans Continue for In-Person “Friedrichshafen” HAM RADIO Event OM3RDX Packet Radio, dx news, QRP, awards and software from slovack radio club Improving Gain of the Super J-Pole Antenna Antennas/J-Pole The collinear J-Pole, often known as the Super-J, does improve the behavior over a regular J-Pole. there is an advantage when vertically combining 1/2 radiating sections to have a bit of separation between the half-wave end points. Get 0.8 dB more gain out of the trusty Super-J by replacing the traditional phasing stub with a long coil.