Eighty one community radio stations receive emergency cash funding
Around a third of community radio stations in the UK have successfully applied for emergency cash funding to help them through the Covid-19 pandemic, Ofcom announced today
McGan Award call for submissions
We know that the Covid-19 pandemic is at the forefront of everyone’s thoughts. Please remain safe
RSGB thanks volunteers
To mark National Volunteers’ Week, RSGB Board Director Philip Willis M0PHI has recorded a short video clip to thank all RSGB volunteers
June 2020 Festival of Frequency Measurement
HamSCI is looking for amateur radio operators in the eastern hemisphere to help collect propagation data during the June 21 eclipse. Data collection requires an HF radio connected to a computer
HAMEXPO 2020 cancelled
French national amateur radio society REF has announced the amateur radio event HAMEXPO 2020, which had been planned for October 10 in Le Mans, has been cancelled
IARU Region 2 Executive Committee Meets in Videoconference
The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region 2 Executive Committee (EC) held its quarterly meeting on May 28 via videoconference. In addition to routine business, the panel was briefed by IARU R2 Workshops Coordinator Augusto Gabaldoni, OA4DOH. He reported that, as of the meeting date, nearly 400 have subscribed and more than 2,800 have viewed the first four workshops, either live on Zoo...
WSJT-X Version 2.2.0 is Now in General Release
Six Meters Recently Running Hot
“June 2020 Festival of Frequency Measurement” Seeks Ham Radio Volunteers
Huntsville Hamfest Canceled
The 2020 Huntsville Hamfest has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event’s Board of Directors has announced. The Huntsville Hamfest was sanctioned as the 2020 ARRL Southeastern Division Convention. Full refunds to prepaid commercial and flea market vendors will be processed via the mode in which payment was made. Online ticket purchases will be credited to PayPal accounts. Embassy ...
ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference Issues Call for Papers
Six meter Band Plan IARU Reg 1
50 MHz IARU Region 1 bandplan
PI4DX contest group
We are a contest station situated in the South West part of the Netherlands in the province of Zeeland,
Thornbury & South Gloucestershire Amateur Radio Club
TSGARC Amateur Radio club Thornbury & South Gloucestershire Englang UK
NetTime for Windows
Software/Time
NetTime is a simple and free software to sync your computer clock via internet. Very useful tool for FT8 FT4 operating modes.
Receive analog video radio signals from scratch
If you've been on the RTL-SDR forums lately you may have seen that a lot of work has been going into the DragonOS software. This is a software-defined radio group that has seen a lot of effort put into a purpose-built Debian-based Linux distribution that can do a lot of SDR out of the box
The SDR.hu project has been finished
I’d like to say a big thanks to everyone who joined my journey with this project! I hope you had a good time listening on the site, and learnt some things about SDR
News Agency reports radio amateur connects to ISS
The News Agency ANI reports that a radio amateur from Ahmedabad, Adhir Saiyadh, received signals from the ISS. Onboard the ISS are the SpaceX Dragon astronauts who docked on May 31
NASA assigns astronaut Kate Rubins, KG5FYJ to Expedition 63/64 space station crew
NASA has assigned astronaut Kate Rubins, KG5FYJ to a six-month mission to the International Space Station as a flight engineer and member of the Expedition 63/64 crew
Image: Expedition 48 crew members Kate Rubins KG5FYJ (left) and Jeff Williams (right)
EURAO Party - Spring 2020: take care of your ham friends
The European Radio Amateurs' Organization announces a new party on the air, this time with the motto: 'take care of your ham friends'
Online Foundation webinar attracts 220
Essex Ham report on Tuesday, June 2, over 220 students on their free amateur radio training course took part in a webinar that included a live contact using the popular data mode FT8
Rising RF Noise Levels - IARU submits paper to CISPR
The IARU have submitted a paper to the International Special Committee on Radio Interference (CISPR) on the problem of increasing RF noise from digital devices
The Yasme Foundation Announces Grants, Excellence Award
The Board of Directors of The Yasme Foundation has announced grants of $5,000 each to the Foundation for Amateur Radio (FAR) and to ARRL scholarship programs for 2020. The Board also named Joe Eisenberg, K0NEB, as a recipient of the Yasme Excellence Award. This honor recognizes individuals and groups who, through their own service, creativity, effort, and dedication, have made a significant con...
AMSAT Spells Out its GOLF Program Objectives
AMSAT says the aim of its developing “Greater Orbit, Larger Footprint” (GOLF) satellite program is to place amateur radio transponders in low-Earth orbit (LEO), medium-Earth orbit (MEO), and eventually high-Earth orbit (HEO). “The goal of the GOLF program is to work by steps through a series of increasingly capable spacecraft to learn skills and systems for which we do not yet have any low-risk ...
COVID-19 Event to Enter High Scorers into a Free Drawing for a Trip
Split Rock Amer Radio Assn of Northern NJ
Northern NJ's number one club. Weekly swap n shop/net, VE sessions 2nd Monday, Meetings, Second Tuesdays. E-mail us to learn more.
EARS Escondido Amateur Radio Club
The Escondido Amateur Radio Society is a non-profit organization of educational and social benefit to amateur radio operators and others interested in amateur radio in the Escondido area.
VE2CYH Covey Hill Amateur Radio Club
VE2CYH The Covey Hill Amateur Radio Club Repeater is located on the Covey Hill, mountain and it operates on the frequency of 146.685
CatBKT Universal CAT Control
Software/Radio Control
Program for the control of the transceiver from your PC. Works on windows and has been tested with different serial and USB interfaces, Based on hamlib libraries , Auto CQ for repetitive calls, Audio Recorder, BktNetInterface for JTDX and WSJT-X
GB0GIG ... Time to apply for your certificate
Now that GB0GIG has finished with 3,500 QSOs logged, it is time to claim certificate for having a certain number of QSOs with the station
Ofcom updates licence-exemption regulations including 24 GHz
Ofcom has confirmed technical changes for use of spectrum in 874 to 874.4 MHz and 915 to 919.4 MHz bands to support use of short-range wireless devices and licenced use of 24.100-24.350 GHz at railway level crossings
Credit card chip used to make crystal radio
Hackaday report Billy Cheung decided to build a crystal radio using a rather unconventional detector – the smart chip in a common credit card
The Radio Collector
On his Soldersmoke blog Bill Meara M0HBR / N2CQR highlights a vintage video of a 1985 TV show The Radio Collector from the California Historical Radio Society
Amateur radio on BBC Somerset
On May 31, RSGB Region 11 Representative Dean Brice G0UIL was interviewed by Mel Everett on BBC Somerset about amateur radio
Kangaroo Island IOTA expedition re-scheduled
Grant, VK5GR, reports: I am very pleased to announce that the VK5KI Expedition to Kangaroo Island (IOTA OC-139) has been rescheduled, although it has also been scaled down
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