Denby Dale ARS talks available on Zoom
The Denby Dale Amateur Radio Society are organising a series of online presentations using Zoom starting this evening Tuesday, May 5
Ham radio operators reach out to people with critical illness
This Week reports amateurs radio operators have been scanning Kolkata round the clock during the ongoing lockdown to get medicines required by critically ill patients of West Bengal and outside
FT8/FT4 and 'screen savers or power savers'
This is a short article which could explain a phenomena that you may have experienced. It affects FT8, FT4 and maybe other data modes
Amateur Radio Exams 'Al-fresco'
IARU Region 1 reports on how a club overcame the Coronavirus restrictions to hold an amateur radio exam in a country where online exams aren't available
Changes at SOTABEAMS
Richard Newstead G3CWI has announced his retirement from his amateur radio company SOTABEAMS
AMSAT Solicits Nominations for the 2020 Board of Directors Election
AMSAT is soliciting candidate nominations for the 2020 Board of Directors Election set for later this year, to fill the seats of three incumbent Directors whose 2-year terms expire in 2020: Tom Clark, K3IO; Mark Hammond, N8MH, and Bruce Paige, KK5DO. AMSAT members may further elect up to two Alternate Directors for 1-year terms. Valid Director nominations must be in writing and require either o...
Ham-Com Cancels 2020 Show
Ham-Com will not take place in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “While we have held out hope that this year we would be able to host Ham-Com 2020 as a light at the end of the long tunnel of the COVID-19 virus, it is with great sadness that we must inform all that we are canceling Ham-Com 2020, with the event postponed until June 17, 18, and 19, 2021,” Ham-Com Board of Directors President Bil...
RSGB’s RadCom Magazine May Edition Available to All Online
Mobile Amateur Radio Awards Club
MARAC was organized in 1970 as a Kansas Nonprofit Corporation, as a support group for county hunting and mobile activity
Delta County Amateur Radio Society
The purpose of the site is to allow people interested in Amateur Radio to learn about our organization
Northern Ohio DX Association elections
On Thursday, April 30th, during an On-Air Meeting, the members of Northern Ohio DX Association (NODXA) re-elected the following to serve as officers between May 2020 and May 2021
Vintage Amateur Radio Magazines
Swedish amateur radio publications dating back to the early 1930's have been scanned and are now available to download
World Amateur Radio Day Award Certificates: delayed until Friday, May 8
Thank you for participating in the first RAC "Get on the Air on World Amateur Radio Day" (WARD) Special Event! Our volunteers are now working on processing the special event certificates but have been delayed due to circumstances related to the global pandemic
IOTA Contest 2020
The RSGB have announced that the annual Islands on the Air Contest, which takes place over the last full weekend of July (25th / 26th July), will go ahead this year
New SSTV software YONIQ
Eugenio Fernández EA1ADA reports that YONIQ, a modern version of the popular Slow Scan TV software MMSSTV, is now available
Online Satellite Workshop talks available
Videos of the talks given to the Online Satellite Workshop that took place May 2-3 are available on YouTube
GB0GIG continues this week
GB0GIG run by members of Dragon Amateur Radio Club and North Wales Radio Society is having great fun on air to celebrate the hard work of the NHS in Wales. Thanking them for their hard work and dedication during the hard time of the Covid-19 pandemic
Remotely-invigilated exam numbers released
On Friday, May 1, the RSGB released the figures for UK remotely-invigilated amateur radio Foundation exams
FCC Providing Flexibility to Volunteer Examiners in Developing Remote Testing Methods
The FCC has clarified that nothing in its rules prohibits remote amateur radio testing, and no prior approval is needed to conduct remote exam sessions. “The Commission provides flexibility to volunteer examiners and coordinators who wish to develop remote testing methods or to increase remote testing programs already in place,” the FCC said in an April 30 news release. “We recognize that some ...
Jacksonville Range Association
VE2PDT Blog
Personal amateur radio blog by VE2PDT
OneSDR
Technical Reference/Software Defined Radio/Beginner's Guides to SDR
OneSDR is an Education website with articles that simplify Software-defined Radio. Our goal is to demystify RF technology
Narrow FM Contest 2020
DX Resources/Contest
The ARI Club of Lecce (Italy) is proud to present the first HF FM contest. This is the NARROW FM CONTEST which will debut the 6th and 7th of June 2020. It will last 24 hours and will take place on 10 meters exclusively in the FM emission mode.
Electronic voting for the 2020 South African Radio League AGM
The electronic voting for the four Financial motions opened at 00:01 CAT on Monday 27 April 2020 and there was an initial rush to cast votes, but this has decreased during the week
World Pulmonary Hypertension Day goes live on ham radio
Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) Association report on the amateur radio special event station W2H which will be active to promote World PH Day taking place May 5
66-year-old man rescued from ham radio tower
Firefighters were called to rescue a 66-year-old man who was stuck on a friend's amateur radio mast in Big Piney Road, Rapid City, South Dakota
Ham College 64: Remote Exams
In this episode of Ham College we get the up to date information on the state of Amateur radio exam remote testing. It’s come much further than we thought
Amateur radio explained to young coders
Simon Dorrer OE3SDO gave an online talk 'Amateur radio as a hobby' to young people in Linz, Austria, at a CoderDojo Junior Bootcamp event on April 24
QSO Today Amateur Radio Podcast Episode 300 - The Panel Discussion
I just posted episode 300, another milestone in the history of the QSO Today podcast. I decided to celebrate this milestone with a panel discussion as something new and completely different
FCC Chair comments on amateur radio remote testing
Ajit Pai Chair of the FCC (USA's communications regulator) has publicly thanked radio amateur Sam Hulick KD9PGO for highlighting the issue of remote testing
Amateur radio exam generator - Canada
A learning aid for prospective amateurs and administrative tool for accredited examiners.
LinuxLog
Software/Linux
Simple logger for Linux based ham radio station, can run on most popular linux distributions, offers dx cluster connection, display of QRZ data and pictures, search function, search duplicates, award module.
Reflected tsunamis mimic space weather
New research just published in the journal Space Weather shows that earthquakes and tsunamis can affect our planet's ionosphere as much as powerful X-class solar flares do, causing GPS receivers to completely lose lock
IARU report May RadCom freely available to read online
The IARU Secretary Dave Sumner, K1ZZ, reports that in response to the Coronavirus outbreak the RSGB is making the May edition of RadCom freely available to view on the web
Special event callsign VI20SH
The Radio Amateur Society of Australia have been issued with the special event callsign VI20SH (stay home)
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