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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’ Limerick Clare Amateur Radio Club LCRC has returned to the Shannon Aviation Museum and is currently setting up HF and VHF/UHF working stations Mid-Ulster Amateur Radio Club Tuesday Night Lecture Series The next Mid-Ulster Amateur Radio Club Tuesday Night Lecture series is this Tuesday 14th, with Mike Richards Gi4WNC talking about the inner workings of Raspberry Bengaluru taps HAM community to tackle Covid-19 spread India’s technology hub Bengaluru is tapping into a strong community of amateur radio users to help tackle the spread of the Covid-19 outbreak Brazil: Amateur Radio statistics released Brazil's national amateur radio society LABRE has released a report by Ricardo Benedito PU2RKA that uses ANATEL's Open Data to provide an analysis of radio amateur numbers by Class and State Ham radio in Third Age Matters magazine Radio amateur Mike Meadows G4GUG got some good publicity for the hobby in an article for Third Age Matters magazine in which he explains his enjoyment of amateur radio over the years Online booking for Remotely-invigilated Intermediate Exams The RSGB have announced that radio amateurs can now book online to take the remotely-invigilated Intermediate exam XE1NK Alberto Ham radio blog from mexico mainly in spanish WD4AHZ- amateur radio blog Ham Radio News, Information, and Operating Activities of Ron, WD4AHZ KB0ZUU Ham Radio and other things Just a whats happening in ham radio and things in my life here Royal Communications International, Inc. Shopping and Services/Regional/USA Since 1988, Royal Communications International has been supplying communications equipment designed for the military, professional, and amateur market. We specialize in the sale and service of High Frequency, Single Sideband transceivers that are dependable and easy to use. Polish special callsign Members of the Mysliborski Klub Lacznosci PZK (SP1PMY) will be active with the special callsign SN87LOT from Mysliborz between now and August 31st SARL 80m Club Sprint The fourth leg of the 80m Club Sprint is on the air from 17:00 to 18:00 UTC on Wednesday 15th July with CW and phone activity Austral and Marquesas Islands DXpedition postponed Lance, W7GJ, informs OPDX of the following: Because of the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic, we regret that the W7GJ 6m EME DXpedition to FO/A and FO/M and the KB7Q 2m EME DXpedition to FO/M must be delayed until 2021 7-CALL 30th Anniversary special station 7-CALL Amateur Radio Club has started operation from a 2nd Shack of 8J17CALL, 7-CALL 30th Anniversary Special station on 11th July, 2020 The uncertain future of Ham Radio Julianne Pepitone writes in the IEEE Spectrum magazine about the state of amateur radio in the USA Getting publicity for Amateur Radio Publicity can be magical and when it comes to ham radio, it's great magic. Jeremy Boot G4NJH tells WIA News how one amateur in the UK used newspaper publicity to boost ham radio's profile WR7HLN Mac Pass Repeater Group The Mac Pass Repeater Group is the Amateur Radio club associated with the Mac Pass Radio, LLC company Exploring The J-Pole Antenna Antennas/J-Pole The J-Pole antenna is a common omnidirectional antenna used in amateur radio, particularly on the VHF and UHF bands. This article is an attempt to explore how the J-pole antenna transforms feed-line impedance to free-space impedance, all the while providing gain found only in the more expensive commercial products.