Plans to Retrieve Titanic Wireless Equipment Put on Indefinite Hold
RMS Titanic, Inc., (RMST) the company that owns salvage rights to the Titanic shipwreck, has indefinitely put off its plans to retrieve the vessel’s radio equipment for exhibit. The company cited the coronavirus pandemic for the delay, according to a court filing the company made on January 29. The Atlanta-based company said its plans have faced “increasing difficulty associated with internatio...
A New Version of WSJT-X is Now Available
The WSJT Development Group has announced the general availability release of WSJT-X Version 2.3.0. A summary of new features can be found in the WSJT-X 2.3 User Guide. The Release Notes offer additional information, including a list of important program changes since the WSJT-X 2.2. Upgrading from earlier versions of WSJT-X should be seamless, and it’s not necessary to uninstall a previous vers...
How to build a Software Defined Radio
Technical Reference/Software Defined Radio
Experimental Methods in DSP design. The author explains how a software defined radio works to help other amateurs with their learning. This set of tutorials takes you from how to write a single component to a fully working SDR.
Ukraine Repeater Map
Operating Modes/Repeaters/Repeater maps
An interactive map for ham radio repeaters in Ukraine
Iodine Thruster could slow space junk accumulation
For the first time ever, a telecommunications satellite has used an iodine propellant to change its orbit around Earth
CQ magazine's VHF-Plus Editor
Trent Fleming, N4DTF, of Germantown, Tennessee, has been named CQ magazine's VHF-Plus Editor, CQ Editor Rich Moseson, W2VU announced today
Online Distance Learning Course for Full Exam
The popular Bath Based Distance Learning for the amateur radio Full exam is starting again in March. Bookings are being taken now
Pune’s Maharashtra Education Society launches WebSDR
The Hindustan Times reports radio amateur Vilas Rabde VU2VPR has created a Web-based Software Defined Radio (WebSDR) for school students
Turkish airline professional turns amateur radio buff
The Anadolu Agency reports Levent Tamay rediscovered amateur radio when he was suspended from his job due to the pandemic
ARRL Headquarters is Closed Today, February 1
Due to anticipated severe winter weather, ARRL Headquarters is closed today, Monday, February 1. This includes customer telephone service lines. W1AW will operate on its normal weekday schedule.
Upcoming NCJ CW and RTTY North American Sprints to Start 1 Hour Earlier
The February 6 NCJ-sponsored North American Sprint (CW) and the March 13 RTTY Sprint will begin 1 hour earlier, at 2300 UTC instead of 0000 UTC. Both contests will end at 0259 UTC. An earlier start time will give participants in the north and east a larger window for 20-meter activity. The new start time in February and March are provisional and will be evaluated after the contests. The Septemb...
ARRL Board of Directors Confers Awards
ARRL Board of Directors to Reconsider the Use of Electronic Balloting
The ARRL Board of Directors will look into the use of electronic balloting systems “to augment paper balloting for ARRL elections.” The Board instituted a hybrid paper and electronic balloting process in the fall of 2012, which was popular among those who took advantage of it, but overall voter participation declined significantly, and the Board’s Ethics and Elections Committee decided in 2015 ...
European Union DX Contest to Debut
Janusz Wegrzyn, SP9FIH, has won the 2019 Single-Operator Cass Award
Janusz Wegrzyn, SP9FIH, has won the 2019 Single-Operator Cass Award. Sponsored by Club Log, DXLab, and the Northern California DX Club, the Cass Awards encourage DXpedition operating excellence by recognizing DXpeditions that work the most unique call signs. This marks Wegrzyn’s third year as the Single-Operator Cass Award winner. As E44WE, he is credited with working 7,518 unique stations duri...
Rowan Amateur Radio Society
Located in Salisbury NC, the county seat and largest city within Rowan County
Amateur radio 3D models
Technical Reference/3D Printed Projects
3D printer models for Ham Radio accessories and parts like Crank knobs, antenna insulators, powerpole clips, adapters, yagi antenna clips, antenna and radio mounts.
Calling all clubs
Here is a challenge for you and your club. Phillip ZS6PVT and Danie plan to run a WRARC (ZS6WR) club station in the SARL FM VHF UHF contest on 6 February
Jerry Weisskohl, AC4BT
Jerry Weisskohl, AC4BT, always had a love of radio and short wave listening
VHF online VHF/UHF workshop
SARL and AMSATSA will join forces on 20 February 2021 to present an online VHF/UHF workshop on the BlueJeans platform
ICQPodcast - QSO Today Expo
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2021/january/icqpodcast-qso-today-expo.htm
Amateur Radio License fee increase
ICASA has informed the SARL that amateur radio Licenses will increase by 3.3%. The new fees are published on the SARL website
Yeggi 3D printable Models for Ham Radio
Technical Reference/3D Printed Projects
Yeggi search engine results for amateur radio 3d printable models. If you are looking for 3d ham radio parts like loading coils, stands for radio, cases, antenna insulators and antenna supports here you will find many ready to use 3d models
Top Amateur Radio Websites - Issue 2104
Short Vertical for 160 meters, Automatic HF Antenna Tuner with Arduino, G3LIV Data Interfaces, Improve your Antennas for Low Solar Activity, Everything you needed to know about Radio Receivers and Scanners, Ferrite Shop, APRSdroid to a Baofeng Cable , HF Arduino VNA, K7TTY, Repairing HP 8753C VNA
April RSGB Board Proceedings
The RSGB Board Proceedings for the April 22 meeting have been released, they provide an updated membership figureThe RSGB Board Proceedings for the April 22 meeting have been released, they provide an updated membership figure
Updated RSGB-Ofcom EMF Calculator
A revised version of the RSGB-Ofcom EMF calculator was released a few days ago, it addressed font/formatting issues
Signals received from Taiwan's CubeSats
The Taipei Times reports Amateur Radio operators have received signals transmitted by Taiwan's two new CubeSats YuSat and IDEASSat launched by SpaceX on January 24
Iceland to permit renewal of ham radio permits for 1.85 and 70 MHz
Iceland's IRA received positive responses from the Post and Telecom Administration (PFS/PTA) in December to their request for renewal of amateur radio permits for 160 meters and 4 meters
Anoka County Radio Club
Anoka County Radio Club and Emergency Services
Central New Hampshire Amateur Radio Club
ARRL special service club
High Speed Multi Media Info
Operating Modes/HSMM
This website presents ideas regarding the use of High Speed Multi Media as a way to expand networks for emergency response communications and day to day operations.
ARRL Audio News - January 29, 2021
ARRL Audio News - January 29, 2021
ARISS and Partners Are Investigating Space Station Ham Radio Failure
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) and its partners are troubleshooting a failure within the on-board NA1SS amateur station in the ISS Columbus module. The problem does not appear to be with the radio equipment in Columbus, however. ARISS realized the problem when a contact with a school in Wyoming, between ON4ISS on Earth and astronaut Mike Hopkins, KF5LJG, at NA1SS, had ...
GPS clock
Operating Aids/Time
This project taps into the NMEA stream and provides both a visual display with an LCD and also LED indicators and a sounder. The LCD outputs include 3D Lock, 2D Lock and NO Lock while the UTC time is also displayed to screen.
RadFxSat-2 Satellite Signals Detected, AMSAT Engineering Continues to Assess Status
AMSAT reports that it’s continuing to assess the status of the RadFxSat-2 / Fox-1E amateur radio CubeSat after a ham in Nevada reported hearing his CW signal weakly via the spacecraft’s transponder on January 27. AMSAT Engineering and Operations was able to confirm the reports from Brad Schumacher, W5SAT, and determined that RadFxSat-2 is partially functioning, although signals are extremely we...
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