Online Intermediate amateur radio training
The Online Amateur Radio Community M0OUK has announced the commencement of its online Intermediate amateur radio training pilot course
ILLW on track for 2020
Registrations for this year’s popular International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend, ILLW, have not been diminished by the global pandemic now known as Covid-19
AMSAT Says Husky-1 CubeSat Project Helped Pave the Way for Future Missions
AMSAT Vice President of Engineering Jerry Buxton, N0JY, said that while it was disappointing that the amateur transponder on HuskySat-1 (HO-107) was not available any longer, following the satellite’s science missions, the overall HuskySat-1 project and mission “were quite beneficial for our partner and for AMSAT.” The linear transponder module (LTM) on HuskySat-1 was operational for more than ...
International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend on Track for 2020
Fenland Repeater Group
GB3SO GB3FR Official Fenland Repeater Group website
G3ZHI web log
Amateur radio blog from UK
6 Meter Homemade J-Pole Antenna
Antennas/6M/6 meter J-Pole Antenna
A homemade j-pole antenna for six meters band, designed to work on local repeaters, and working on the 52-53 MHz. Includes a list of needed materials and detailed description on assembling the copper tubes used to build this antenna.
Midway Island
We've all seen the latest pandemic news. It's not progressing in a good direction or anything like the earlier predictions. The U.S. now has 132,000 deaths and the forecast is for 200,00 by November
Radio amateurs respond to flooding in Indonesia
ORARI HQ and LAPAN (National Institute of Aeronautics and Space of Indonesia) has activated the amateur radio satellite IO-86 for emergency communications in Luwu, South Sulawesi
Magic' of ham radio breaks doldrums of COVID-19
The Gazette video The Magic of Radio looks at the Pikes Peak Radio Amateur Association
1240-1300 MHz discussed at CEPT SE 40 meeting
The 69th meeting of CEPT ECC Working Group SE-40, held June 23-25, discussed the amateur radio 1240-1300 MHz band, the meeting documents are now available
NASA to highlight Comet NEOWISE with public broadcast
NASA experts will discuss and answer public questions about Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE during a broadcast of NASA Science Live and follow up media teleconference on Wednesday, July 15. The comet is visible with the naked-eye in the early morning sky and starting this week, after sunset
Transceiver performance for the HF-VHF-UHF operator
The presentation on transceiver performance given by Rob Sherwood KC0B to the Sutton and Cheam Radio Society is available on YouTube
DATV in 2m band on August 22
The Netherlands IARU member society VERON is encouraging radio amateurs to use DATV in the 2m band on August 22 to demonstrate the band is suitable for DATV
National Hamfest cancelled
The UK National Hamfest planned for September 25-26 at the Newark Showground has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus outbreak
OE SOTA Day 2020
OE SOTA Day is a popular annual Summits on the Air event, organised by the Austrian SOTA Association. It traditionally includes lots of summits being activated in OE, both from Austrian hams and visiting amateurs, plus a social meet-up somewhere in the Austrian mountains
Former North Texas Section Manager Tom Blackwell, N5GAR, SK
Former North Texas Section Manager Tom Blackwell, N5GAR, of Dallas, Texas, died on May 14. An ARRL Life Member, he was 65. Blackwell served as North Texas SM from 2005 until 2009. Blackwell graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in the College of Business Administration. He attended graduate school at the University of Texas at Dallas. He was an original petitioner in the Petition for ...
Yasme Foundation Supporting Grant will Expand Reverse Beacon Network
The Reverse Beacon Network (RBN) will gain 15 new nodes, thanks to the Yasme Foundation. These new nodes will be added in regions where there is a need for reception reports to support amateur radio operation and where those reports will also have scientific value for geophysical research. Yasme was assisted in this effort by supporting grants from Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) an...
FCC Announces Closing of Filing Window at its Headquarters
W8DZ - Greater cincinnati amateur radio association
GCARA is a general interest amateur radio club intended to promote amateur radio, electronics education and fellowship through amateur radio in the Greater Cincinnati Tristate - Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky area. The club service area lies within a circle having a radius of 25 miles from downtown Cincinnati.
Construction of a J-Pole antenna for 2 meter
Antennas/J-Pole
If you like building good antennas, this one is for you. The J-pole is a slim, omnidirectional, half-wave antenna fed at the end through a quarter-wave shorted transmission line. Its predecessor is the famous Zepp antenna developed for the Zeppelin airship.
CQ WW VHF 2020
CQ WW VHF Starts: 1800 UTC Saturday, July 18, 2020 Ends: 2100 UTC Sunday, July 19, 2020
Solar weather station listens for lightning
Custom weather stations are a common enough project these days, especially based around the ESP8266. Wire a sensor up to the MCU, power it up with an old phone charger, and you’re half way there. But if you want something that’s going to operate remotely on the long term, you’ve got to put a little more thought into it
Radio ham worked on power supply unit for Space Station
The Republic reports Ed Krome K9EK is helping amateur radio operators and students connect to the International Space Station (ISS)
Radio Caroline – the return to the Ross!
At last we are back on board our radio-ship Ross Revenge for the first time since March for the next Radio Caroline North broadcast over the weekend 18th-19th July
NASA broadcasts final spacewalks to upgrade space station power system
NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy, KF5KDR and Robert Behnken will conduct a pair of spacewalks Thursday, July 16, and Tuesday, July 21, to finish a 3.5-year effort to upgrade the International Space Station’s power system
First Worked All ZS 2000 issued
For the past 13 years, the Worked All ZS awards programme has been dominated by one individual
Amateur radio satellite enthusiast makes newspaper front page
The Waco Tribune-Herald newspaper featured an article on their front page about amateur radio satellite enthusiast Josh Ward W3ARD
Irish Amateur Radio Examination Resource Pages and Blog
A new resource for students studying for the HAREC examination has been launched on Facebook by Tony EI5EM and has been generating considerable interest
AMSAT-DL Submits Lunar Lander Proposal to European Space Agency
Argentina - RCA
Radio Club Argentino
FLARC: Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club
The Fair Lawn Amateur Radio Club organization is located in the Fair Lawn Community Center
Build a Weatherproof PVC JPole Antenna
Antennas/J-Pole
After you have build this antenna, you may not need anything else. This article shows how to build a VHF j-pole antenna and how to protect it by inserting it into a PVC tube, the correct way.
US global media agency seeks to kick out international journalists
Efforts to clean house at the US Agency for Global Media continued this week as leadership indicated that international journalists who work for Voice of America (VOA) will not have their visas extended and a widely respected top editor at Radio Free Asia was fired
Jingle Bells on Top Band
In the 1960’s, many UK Top Band operators and listeners around the country were greeted by the sound of beacons of various tones, usually around 1900 kHz (or should that be kc/s ?) which got the nickname ‘jingle bells’ or more simply ‘the beacon’
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