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QSO Today Amateur Radio Podcast - Riley Hollingsworth - K4ZDH
Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, started his ham radio career in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in 1960, proceeded through law school to a career at the Federal Communications Commission, the FCC. K4ZDH tells his amateur radio story as well as his impact on the amateur radio service through his career at the FCC
K4GNV Gainesville Amateur Radio Society

Southern California Repeater and Remote Base Association
SCRRBA is a volunteer organization providing coordination of a number of heavily utilized amateur radio frequency bands in Southern California.
W6AB Mount Desert West
Satellite Amateur Radio Club, W6AB, located on beautiful Vandenberg Air Force Base, on the California Central Coast.
WW Locator with Google Maps
Operating Aids/Maps
WW Locator grid square map and QTH locator made with google maps for ham radio
Ofcom features Amateur Radio
Ofcom report Amateur Radio has helped keep thousands of people in the UK connected, and many have taken up the hobby during lockdown – including ten-year-old William M7WHB
NAB offers tools for stations to celebrate 100 years of radio milestones
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2020/july/nab-offers-tools-for-stations-to-celebrate-100-years-of-radio-milestones.htm
High school marine buoy transmitter now active on 20m WSPR
Phil Karn KA9Q, Randy Standke KQ6RS and students at the Mount Carmel High School Amateur Radio Club have constructed and deployed an amateur radio marine buoy, callsign KQ6RS, transmitting 14.0956 MHz USB WSPR
Ofcom release responses to EMF consultation
Responses to the Ofcom consultation: Proposed measures to require compliance with international guidelines for limiting exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) are now available
Unauthorized transmissions in 144 MHz satellite allocation
The DARC reports unauthorized transmissions are taking place in the 144 MHz satellite segment of the 2m amateur radio primary allocation
New video: ‘Introducing the IC-705 QRP SDR transceiver’
With the release of the much-anticipated IC-705 QRP SDR transceiver just around the corner, Icom UK have managed to get hold of a pre-production sample and give to Bob McCreadie G0FGX of TX Films to put it through its paces. He produced a video with his thoughts and reactions
ARRL Audio News - July 17, 2020
ARRL Audio News - July 17, 2020
Nature Communications Article Features LO-94, First Lunar-Orbiting Ham Radio Spacecraft.

Nature Communications Article Features LO-94, First Lunar-Orbiting Ham Radio Spacecraft A July 9 Nature Communications article, “Design and flight results of the VHF/UHF communication system of Longjiang lunar microsatellites,” describes the Longjiang-2/Lunar-OSCAR 94 (LO-94) spacecraft, which carried the first amateur radio communication system into lunar orbit.

As a part of China’s Chang’e-4 l...


Radio Club of America Announces 2020 Award Recipients and Fellows

The Radio Club of America (RCA) has announced its 2020 award recipients and fellows, several of whom are radio amateurs. Recipients and fellows will be celebrated at RCA’s 111th Banquet & Awards Presentation on Friday, November 20, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

  • Barry Goldwater Award: Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, for unique contributions to the field of amateur radio.

  • Edgar F. Johnson Pioneer Citation ...

ATVS team
Slovene ATV assocciation with latest news about their activity, including great bulletins and huge link colection.
Icom IC-R2 Commander
Software/Radio Programming
Programming software for the Icom IC-R2 handheld receiver and scanner.
European SOTA Activity Day September 19th
Summits On The Air is a programme designed to encourage amateur radio based activity from the summits of hills and mountains in countries around the world and to provide an award system for radio amateurs in all DXCC entities
The Red River Bridge War
The Grayson County Amateur Radio Club commemorates the Red River Bridge War of 1931, a boundary conflict between Oklahoma and Texas
Telecoms regulation in the Hull area
Ofcom has today published a consultation on our proposals for regulating wholesale fixed telecoms markets in the Hull Area between April 2021 and March 2026. This sets outs how we plan to regulate KCOM during this period
SpaceX to launch AMSAT-EA EASAT-2 and Hades satellites
Spain's national amateur radio society URE says SpaceX expect to launch the EASAT-2 and Hades satellites in December 2020
ARRL Director asks: What's wrong with ham radio?
When ARRL Director Ria Jairam N2RJ asked amateurs on Twitter to tell her what's wrong with amateur radio and how to fix it, she had many replies including a blog post from Razvan Fatu M0HZH
A surprise visit from STEVE
Comet photographers in Canada were surprised this week when the night sky filled with purple ribbons of light. It looked like auroras, but it was not
High-end ham radio gives up its firmware secrets
Dan Maloney KC1DJT writes on Hackaday that Afshin Salehi AG5OW and Travis Goodspeed KK4VCZ have dumped and partially decoded the Kenwood TH-D74A’s
UK Online Intermediate training videos
The Radio Society of Harrow has twelve training videos for the current Intermediate Syllabus (July 2020)
Radio amateurs help air-ambulance
Peru's Radio Club Peruano (RCP) reports that Guillermo OA4DTU and the Peruvian Relief Chain on 7.100 MHz assisted an aircraft enroute to Easter Island after its satellite communication equipment failed
EME SSTV Party Could Become an Annual Event

Many stations are reported to have made Earth-moon-Earth (EME) SSTV transmissions on last year’s 50th anniversary celebration of the moon landing.

“We could only do it on the exact date 50 years later, and EME conditions were not very good last year,” said Jan van Muijlwijk, PA3FXB, of the PI9CAM team at Dwingeloo Astronomic Observatory. “[W]e saw many stations joining the SSTV party, and we we...


NQN Filters Designer, Manufacturer Ed Wetherhold, W3NQN, SK

Edward E. “Ed” Wetherhold, W3NQN, of Annapolis, Maryland, died on July 9. He was 93.

Licensed in 1947, Wetherhold was an electrical engineer who served in the US Air Force Reserve before spending 30 years at the Annapolis Signal Analysis Center of Alliant Techsystems (formerly the defense division of Honeywell).

Wetherhold was best known within the amateur radio community for designing and manufa...


Field Day 2020 is Shaping Up to be One for the Record Books

Penang Amateur Radio Club (PARC)
Ham radi blog from malaysian ham radio club PARC
Yaesu FT-817 Add VOX via Data Jack
Radio Equipment/HF Transceivers/Yaesu FT-817
Adding VOX to the Data Jack on an FT-817. A method of modifying the FT-817 so that the data jack could be used with VOX on SSB etc thus eliminating the need for any external PTT switching.
Solar Cycle update
The solar cycle is in a strange place
Amateur radio operators send balloon around the globe
Peter Vogel VE7AFV writes in The B.C. Catholic about radio amateurs who build balloons carrying amateur radio transmitters and fly them around the world
Evaluation of digital modes using the Teensy IONOS Simulator
Joe Speroni, AH0A, ARRL Pacific Section Manager, reports that the Winlink team has published an excellent digital modes comparison study, by Thomas Whiteside, N5TW
RASA’s QTC magazine goes fully electronic
The Radio Amateur Society of Australia is pleased to announce a new, fully electronic edition of our QTC magazine
New amateur radio satellite guidance for Brazil
Brazil's National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) has published a new webpage providing regulatory information for small amateur radio satellites

 

 
 
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