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IARU-R1 to discuss future of amateur radio Over 100 delegates will participate in an online IARU Region 1 2021 Workshop on April 21 that will address the future of Amateur Radio Radio amateur on BBC Radio 4 show Radio amateur Professor Sir Martin Sweeting G3YJO, will be the guest on the Radio 4 show The Life Scientific at 9 am (0800 GMT) on Tuesday, April 20 Amateur radio has a new census As the amateur radio community grows and evolves, the need to better understand the preferences and expectations of amateur radio operators worldwide becomes increasingly important Calculation of the Maximum Usable Frequency Propagation/MUF Indicators This paper presents the method of calculating the maximum usable frequency (MUF) and field strength of radio waves reflecting 2 times at the F2 ionosphere layer under inhomogeneous conditions of the ionosphere. The comparison between predicted and measured MUF has shown that the proposed method significantly increases the accuracy of calculation MUF. National Shortwave Listeners Club The inaugural weekly meeting of the newly formed National Shortwave Listeners Club was held on the Zoom platform last Sunday evening and attracted 60 attendees MicroHAMS Digital Conference 2021 The MicroHAMS Digital conference 2021 taking place Saturday, April 24, will be streamed to the web Belgian special prefix The Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications (BIPT) has announced that all Belgian radio amateurs and Belgian radio clubs may replace the normal prefix 'ON' in their call-sign by the special prefix OS during the period between April 18, 2021, to December 12, 2021 Sable Island CY0C DXpedition Murray, WA4DAN, sent out the following on April 10th: The Sable Island CY0C DXpedition team was informed this week by the Parks Canada-Sable Island manager that our scheduled October 2021 Sable DXpedition would have to be postponed due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic Madison DX Club presentation on Lightning Protection Bob, W9EWZ, President of Madison DX Club,says: Please join us and our special guest speaker for the Madison DX Club program for Tuesday, April 13th. All are welcome Updated Radio Frequency Exposure Rules become effective on May 3 The Amateur Service is no longer categorically excluded from certain aspects of the rules, as amended, and licensees can no longer avoid performing an exposure assessment simply because they are transmitting below a given power level HF OTH Radar transmissions too numerous to count The IARU Region 1 Monitoring System newsletter reports in March the ubiquitous Over The Horizon Radars made up about 60% of all interference observations, 'one cannot even count them anymore' Build your own Windom Antenna Antennas/Windom Building a Windom HF Antenna. A PDF file presentation about homebrewing a windom antenna for the HF bands with formulas for 40 and 80 meters bands and step by step guide on making a 4:1 balun to feed the antenna. Getting more youth into Amateur Radio Are you a youth Coordinator for your club? Do you help run events aimed at Youth in Ham Radio? Do you have ideas for ways to get more youth into Radio ICQPodcast - Kit Building Tips - Joe Eisenberg K0NEB In this episode, Martin (M1MRB) is joined by Chris Howard (M0TCH), Ed Durrant (DD5LP) and Bill Barnes (WC3B) to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin (M6BOY) rounds up the news in brief and in this episode, we feature Kit Building Tips - Joe Eisenberg K0NEB Mayham is coming A reminder that 'Mayham' is coming up on Sunday the 30th of May 2021 at Wyong Racecourse. Also, on Saturday the 29th, there will be both pedestrian and mobile fox hunts Online talk: Sustainable RF ! The Denby Dale ARS will be hosting an online talk on Zoom by John G8SEQ on Sustainable RF ! this Wednesday, April 14 at 7:30 pm (1830 GMT). All are welcome to join the meeting $9.3m grant for HAARP HF research University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute received a five-year, $9.3 million grant to expand activities at the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program in Gakona Mars Helicopter flight delayed to no earlier than April 14 NASA reports that based on data from the Ingenuity Mars helicopter that arrived late Friday night, NASA has chosen to reschedule the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s first experimental flight to no earlier than April 14 After 27 years JARL returns to growth The number of members of the Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) has increased from the previous year for the first time in 27 years Radio ham receives Federal Cross of Merit Radio amateur Prof. Dr.-Ing, Ulrich Rohde, DJ2LR, has been awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Interview with Dan Marler, K7REX, from RATPAC Dan Marler, K7REX, owes much of his professional opportunities and success to his amateur radio background Using WSPR data to detect MH370 Richard Godfrey suggests data from the amateur radio WSPR transmissions might provide clues to the location of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 WebSDR Wismar Internet and Radio/WebSDR This WebSDR is located in Wismar in the north of Germany JO53RV and operated by Frank Goehling DO7AX Czech Republic special event Members of the Radioclub Chrudim will be active as OL75KCR from Chrudim to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the foundation of Radioclub Chrudim Bolivia operation Antonio, EA5RM, is once again be active as CP1XRM from Bolivia until April 27th, working as Solidaridad Medica and Radio amateurs Without Frontiers NGO volunteer The ZS4 Sprint on 18 April This is a fun activity to promote contacts between radio amateurs in the Free State and radio amateurs in Southern African countries AMSAT SA call for papers AMSAT SA has announced the date for the 2021 Space Symposium. In view of the continuing uncertainty about the Covid - 19 pandemic the conference will be a virtual event on the BlueJeans platform. The date is Saturday 10 July 2021 starting at 08:00 UTC 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