AMATEUR RADIO NEWS FROM THE NET

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Radio hams help in cyclone The Hindustan Times reports nine amateur radio operators came to the aid of district officials during Cyclone Nisarga Radio waves on the rise since lockdown The Caithness Amateur Radio Society got good publicity for the hobby in the John O'Groat Journal and Caithness Courier Amphan tested what radio amateurs had learnt The Hindu reports that in May amateur radio operators worked hand in hand with the Odisha Disaster Rapid Action Force (ODRAF) ahead of the cyclone Amphan Radio amateur in Queen's Birthday honours list Tony Hutchison VK5ZAI was awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List released June 8, 2020 The July Issue of Digital QST is Now Available! W4DFU Gator Amateur Radio Club A University of Florida Student Organization. The W4DFU amateur radio station was established in 1934 and represents the Gator Nation internationally on a daily basis. IARC 4U1ITU International Amateur Radio Club at ITU - IARC information and official web site of 4U1ITU IARU club station Radioamateur.ca Ham radio portal of canada TASYL The purpose of the TASYLs is to promote fellowship among YLs, who share a common bond of Amateur Radio. FDLog 2000 FDlog is a free windows Field day logging program in Danish N7PI Pocatello Amateur Radio Club Since 1957, 53 years of Amateur Radio in Pocatello LogView for WSJT-X Software/Log Analysis Log viewer for WSJT-X is an external utility to parse the WSJT-X log and check for duplicate contacts or making additional analysis. GridLocW Locator converter Software/Grid Bearing and Maps GridLocW is a free Lat/Long to Maidenhead converter for Windows - with optional GPS support, includes the formula to calculate geodesic distance (in m) between two points specified by latitude/longitude. St. Kitts, West Indies John, W5JON, who was expected to be active as V47JA from his Calypso Bay, St. Kitts, West Indies vacation home, between June 11th and July 2nd, had to change his plans QSL updates on F6KOP operation Christian, F5GSJ, QSL Manager of F6KOP (Radio-Club de Provins), provides the following QSL updates of the Club's expeditions Nicaragua Robert, DL7VOA, will be active as YN5AO from Casa Guacalito, Guacalito de la Isla (WW Loc. EK61xi), Rivas, Nicaragua, between November 21st and December 5th From the IRTS QSL Inward Manager Over the last couple of months, QSL cards have arrived to the inward bureau that cannot be sent to their EI recipients. This is due to us being unable to find your details Aruba rescheduled Operators Bill/N4IQ and Bob/ND7J will be active as P4/N4IQ and P4/ND7J from Aruba (SA-036) between July 7-14th, 2021, (not July 15-22nd, 2020) ICQPodcast - The Futures of Ham Radio In this episode, Martin M1MRB is joined by Chris Howard M0TCH, Martin Rothwell M0SGL, Ed Durrant DD5LP, Frank Howell K4FMH and Bill Barnes WC3B to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin M6BOY rounds up the news in brief and this episode’s feature is The Futures of Ham Radio Iceland: Amateur radio meetings to resume Iceland's IRA has announced the weekly amateur radio meetings at their headquarters in Skeljanes, Reykjavík, will resume on Thursday, June 11 12-13 June - activity days RUSSIAN DOMINO 2020 Dear Fellow Radio Amateurs, The Russian Digital Radio Club invites you in activity days RUSSIAN DOMINO 2020 from 00:00 UTC on June, 12st till 11:59 UTC on June, 13th National Radio Society of Ireland (NRSI) We are delighted to announce the recent establishment of the 'National Radio Society of Ireland' (NRSI) NZART Memorial Contest The NZ Memorial Contest will again be held over the first weekend in July (4th and 5th) Technical writers still wanted The NZART exam rewrite committee needs writers from among the amateur radio community to help make our exam more relevant for current times Yasme Foundation supporting grant to Open Research Institute The Board of Directors of The Yasme Foundation has made a supporting grant to the Open Research Institute (ORI) to enable completion of ORI's Phase 4 Ground Project Central Coast Amateur Radio Club With a number of public venues progressively reopening their doors, Unfortunately the club rooms as well as all other clubs are still closed for general use under mandated access restrictions Get On The Air To Care montage Essex radio amateurs have been thanking the NHS and supporting the RSGB Get On The Air To Care #GOTA2C campaign during the COVID-19 lockdown Longjiang-2: Journey to the Moon A cartoon movie has been made that tells the story of the student-built spacecraft Longjiang-2 / Lunar-OSCAR-94 which went into lunar orbit and transmitted SSDV images back to radio amateurs on Earth Airwaves kept abuzz for 95 years Hans van de Groenendaal ZS6AKV got some good publicity for Amateur Radio by a sending a press release to the Bloemnuus newspaper ARISS-USA formed In late May, the USA team of the ARISS International working group became an incorporated non-profit entity in the state of Maryland, officially becoming ARISS-USA Online exam booking system proves popular The RSGB report that 300 candidates booked a remotely-invigilated online Foundation exam in the first 5 days of the new booking system being live Wichita Amateur Radio Club WARC was established in December, 1932 GPS2Time Software/Time A means of sync-ing your computer clock using a GPS Receiver. GPS2Time is another GPS network time synchronization software application for Window 7 and higher. Freeware. GPS time Software/Time GPSTime is a small freeware applet that corrects your PC clock using GPS. GPSTime reads the serial data coming out of your GPS receiver and decodes the $GPRMC messages to determine the precise UTC time. Works on Windows Vista/7/8/10 with PC with serial ports. Time-Sync for Windows Software/Time Time-Sync is a freeware software to synchronize the time of your system. Time-Sync is installed as a service, the configuration is very easy for each user and can be done in a few steps. Up to five redundant time servers can be configured.