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The Final Bell Global STAYHOME campaign reached its highpoint On June 6th and 7th, over 6000 worldwide participants made the COVID-19 Radio Communication Event a great success FT8DMC Anniversary Activity Days 2020 To commemorate the 3rd anniversary, several special event stations will be on air during the "FT8DMC Activity Days" between July 1-31st. All stations will bear the FTDMC or FTDM suffix, referring to the 3rd anniversary of the 'FT8 Digital Mode Club' RSGB holds first live webinar The first of RSGB's live webinars 'Tonight @ 8' featured Practical Wireless Data Modes columnist Mike Richards G4WNC who gave a talk on the Raspberry Pi computer board Chelmsford celebrates centenary of Dame Nellie Melba radio broadcast At 7:10pm on June 15, 1920 with sponsorship from the Daily Mail newspaper, the Marconi Company broadcast the world's first live recital by a professional musician - the legendary Australian diva, Dame Nellie Melba NASA TV coverage of final space station spacewalk power upgrades NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy, KF5KDR and Robert Behnken, KE5GGX are scheduled to go outside the International Space Station (ISS) Friday, June 26, and Wednesday, July 1, for spacewalks to begin the replacement of batteries for one of the power channels on the orbiting laboratory Raspberry Pi FUNcube satellite telemetry decoder now available The FUNcube Team has announced the availability of FUNcube CubeSat satellite telemetry decoder software for the popular Raspberry Pi computer board Zadig Windows 10 RTL-SDR Driver Software/Software Defined Radio If you want to use an RTL SDR USB dongle with Windows 10 and you experience problems, you may find this free utility very useful Ireland - Spirit Radio 549KHz Mid April the main Tram 50 Transmitter failed on 549KHz, local engineer was unable to repair, so the standby Harris DX 25 had the covers removed and put back into service. I still think the Harris has a better sound than the Tram 50 unit Visalia DX Convention The challenge for 2021 - Should we plan for an in-person convention in Visalia or a Virtual meeting? Everyone wants to hold out hope for a face-to-face meeting next year, but we have to ask, "What will our 'new normal' lifestyle be like next April and can we guarantee a 'Covid-Free' environment for our attendees?" KPH Coastal Radio Station In this video Shannon Morse KM6FPP visits coastal radio station KPH which provided ship to shore communications using Morse code. Volunteers have preserved it and operate weekends IRTS VHF/UHF Contest Due to the continuing need for social distancing, the IRTS VHF/UHF Field Day, which normally takes place over the first weekend of July, will not take place this year 35,000 radio hams to take part in Field Day The Perry News-Herald reports 35,000 radio amateurs will be taking part in Field Day June 27-28 LY2YR completes contact with S50B for another first on the new 40 MHz band At the end of April 2020, LY2YR in Lithuania made a contact with EI4GNB in Ireland for the first LY-EI QSO on the new 40 MHz amateur band Bob Heil K9EID online talk June 17 Bob Heil K9EID CEO of Heil Sounds and host of Ham Nation TV will be giving an online talk to radio amateurs in the UK on Wednesday, June 17, at 7:30pm (1830 GMT) EA5RCI Amateur Radio Club Elda Spain A Reversible Beverage at ZL3IX Antennas/Beverage How do two-wire reversible direction Beverages work, an excellent document that explains fundamentals of beverage antennas. Top Amateur Radio Websites - Issue 2010 Online Morse Code Training, Taming the Quadrifilar Helical Antenna, 2E0RDJ - Amateur Radio & Weather Station, NOAA Satellite Reception with QFH Antenna, VHF Baluns: Fact and Fancy, 2.3GHz to 432MHz RX converter for FT-817, 100 Watt RF Power Amplifier for 2 GHz, Emergency Net Log, 137MHz Quadrifilar Antenna, Yaesu FT-857D Select Knob Wobbles - How to replace, Hammies Sprint this afternoon The Hammies Sprint will be held from 14:00 to 15:00 UTC this afternoon with phone activity on 40 meters Radio Club Dominicano's 94th anniversary IARU Region 2 reports June 12, 2020, marks the 94th anniversary of the founding of the Radio Club Dominicano, Inc. by Dr. Carlos Regus HI8CR Practical Wireless 2m QRP Fun Contest takes place today The Practical Wireless 2m Contest takes place today, Sunday 14th June from 09:00 to 16:00 UTC Rockwell Collins mentions ham radio Amateur Radio features in a Rockwell Collins promotional brochure that describes the company's UrgentLink Disaster Communications Network Amateur Radio Exams in South Africa postponed again South Africa holds two amateur radio exams a year in May and October. This year the May exam was first postponed until June 27 and has now been postponed indefinitely QSO Today Amateur Radio Podcast - Julius Jones, W2IHY Julius Jones, W2IHY, had an early interest in electronics and radio as a teenager growing up in Boston, in the early 1960s AmateurLogic 144: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is In this release Tommy builds the neat WB0OEW Ham Clock. Emile discusses hurricane preparedness. George shows the ‘dead bug’ method of construction using a surface mount MAX-232 TTL to RS232 level converter VE3RB Peterborough ARC The PARC web site describes ham radio activities and information of the Peterborough Amateur Radio Club in Peterborough, Ontario JH5LUZ Blog 1296Mhz EME Station from Japan, includes eme amplifiers pictures Marine Mobile with Three Antennas Operating Modes/Portable Operations Operating marine mobile with antennas for 15-17-20 meters band. National Radio Society of Ireland NRSI has just been founded this 2020 to provide representation for all those amateur radio operators and shortwave listeners within Ireland who want it Kathy Lueders selected to lead NASA’s Human Spaceflight Office NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Friday selected Commercial Crew Program Manager Kathy Lueders to be the agency’s next associate administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate Qnews-VK: changing world of ham radio In this week's QNews-VK broadcast Geoff Emery VK4ZPP considers the changing world of amateur radio ARRL Audio News - June 12, 2020 ARRL Audio News - June 12, 2020 AMSAT Japan JAMSAT - AMSAT division Japan San Bernardino Microwave Society A non-profit technical organization dedicated to the advancement of communications above 1 GHz Low Cost Antenna Traps Antennas/Traps How to home made antenna traps with material you can easily find, and how to properly tune it. Tuning Antenna Traps Antennas/Traps The problem with making your own trapped HF antennas is usually getting the coaxial traps tuned to frequency. This article explains a method using a RF signal generator at +10dBm output into the coaxial trap.