| 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)
 Amateur radio E-Book prices to fall
 The BBC reports the price of e-books in online stores is being cut immediately after the UK Government brought forward plans to scrap 20% VAT on online publications
 WIA Future of Amateur Radio program
 Adrian VK4APM, Vice President of Australia's national amateur radio society WIA, reports on the "fantastic" response to the WIA Future of Amateur Radio program
 HRN 420: FCC allows remote testing!?!
 Norm Goodkin K6YXH visits with David W0DHG and talks about getting up and running to do remote testing for Amateur Radio Licenses
 ARRL Audio News - May 1, 2020
 ARRL Audio News - May 1, 2020
 Top-Band Stalwart Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ, SK
 
 A fixture on 160 meters, Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ, of Christiansted, Virgin Islands, died on April 29. An ARRL member, he was 84. Licensed in 1954 as W0VXO, Schoenbohm became KV4FZ after relocating to the US Virgin Islands in 1968 to further his career as a sales representative for broadcast equipment manufacturers on the international market, primarily in Latin America.  A regular participant in ... Russian DOSAAF-85 (RS-44) Amateur Radio Satellite Transponder Now Active
 
 The amateur radio linear transponder (SSB/CW) on the Russian DOSAAF-85 (RS-44) has been activated. Dmitry Pashkov, R4UAB, explains that RS-85 is a small scientific satellite built by specialists at Information Satellite Systems and students at Siberian State Aerospace University (SibSAU). The satellite’s name commemorates the 85th anniversary of the Voluntary Society for the Assistance to the Ar... FCC Adopts a New Official Seal in Anticipation of Relocation
 
 In anticipation of its upcoming move, the FCC has adopted a new FCC seal. The redesigned seal is the product of an agency-wide contest that solicited proposals from employees and contractors. The winning design, submitted by Umasankar Arumugam, was selected by a vote of the agency’s employees and contractors. The revised design incorporates several elements: communications technologies currently... SARA Stamford Amateur Radio Association
 
 MicroHAMS
 Microhams is a dynamic organization of hams in the Puget Sound area. The club includes a broad range of people from our local tech industry who participate in just about every aspect of our hobby.
 QRSS/QRPp Network  28.322 MHz
 This blog is about the QRSS QRP beacon network transmitting at 28.322 Mhz managed by IK1ZYW
 V.R.A. Flemish Radio Amateurs
 Radio Amateur organisation of Flanders in Belgium.
 
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