ARRL Audio News - February 14, 2020
ARRL Audio News - February 14, 2020
Denby Dale Amateur Radio Club
Founded nearly 40 years ago at the Pie Hall, Denby Dale, a village famous since 1788 for giant pies.
Oldham Amateur Radio Club
A Radio Society of Great Britain affiliated Club
Sporadic Ham Radio Club
Web site of the Sporadic Ham Radio Club.
K4BFT Huntsville Amateur Radio Club
Huntsville Area Active Amateur Radio Organization
Handiham Blog
Ham radio for people with disabilities provide podcast and blog
ZR6KMD 20m Field Dipole
Antennas/Portable
A simple drawing schematic of a portable field dipole for 14 MHz with dimensions in meters and instruction for setting up the antenna and to store the radial for easy transportation
ZS6KMD 20-40m Multiband Dipole
Antennas/Multiband
The dipole shown in this document is installed in an inverted Vee configuration, with two leg elements on each side held parallel to each other by 21cm spacers. The upper leg is for 40m and the lower leg for 20m. The spacers are made of 7mm plastic garden hose support for garden sprayers cut to 21cm.
Trump signs order to test U.S. infrastructure's vulnerability to GPS outage
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order directing U.S. agencies to test the vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure systems in the event of a disruption or manipulation of global positioning system services (GPS).
15-year-old fights the FAA anti-model flying NPRM with social media
The FAA has issued an NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rule Making) that would effectively see the end of the traditional hobby of flying RC planes, helicopters and drones
WRC-15 60m band now authorized in France
The French communications regulator ARCEP has finally authorized the use of the 5 MHz (60m) amateur radio band agreed by ITU at WRC-15
RAC Amateur of the Year Award 2019: Cary Rubenfeld, VE4EA
The RAC Board of Directors takes great pleasure in selecting Cary Rubenfeld, VE4EA, as the recipient of the RAC Amateur of the Year Award for 2019 in recognition of his tireless efforts to promote Amateur Radio in his home province of Manitoba, throughout Canada and internationally
Amateur Radio Operating Procedures
Australia's communications regulator ACMA has made available an Amateur Radio Operating Procedures page
New ARRL Repeater Directory Now Shipping
The 2020 ARRL Repeater Directory® is now shipping. It includes “crowdsourced” listings contributed by users, repeater owners, and volunteer frequency coordinators. This means more listings that are and updated more often. With 21,000 listings, it’s the most complete printed directory of on-the-air repeaters, covering repeater systems throughout the US and Canada. Repeater systems are listed by ...
ARRL Podcasts Schedule
The second episode of ARRL’s On the Air podcast is now available. The topics focus on building the ground plane antenna featured in the first issue of On the Air magazine, a discussion of open-wire feed lines, and an interview with a relatively new public service volunteer. New On the Air podcast episodes are available monthly. The first episode of the new Eclectic Tech podcast also is now avai...
Cary Rubenfeld, VE4EA, is RAC Amateur of the Year for 2019
The Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) Board of Directors has named Cary Rubenfeld, VE4EA, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, as the recipient of the 2019 RAC Amateur of the Year Award. The award recognizes “his tireless efforts to promote amateur radio in his home province of Manitoba, throughout Canada and internationally,” RAC said. Rubenfeld is a founding member of Radiosport Manitoba (RSM). He was also a d...
FCC Invites Comments on 5.9 GHz Proceeding
ARRL Headquarters Will Be Closed for Presidents’ Day, Monday, February 17
ARRL Headquarters will be closed for Presidents’ Day, Monday, February 17. There will be no W1AW bulletin or code practice transmissions on that day. Headquarters will reopen on Tuesday, February 18, at 8 AM EST.
The Renfrew County Amateur Radio Club
The Renfrew County Amateur Radio Club is located in the County of Renfrew in the province of Ontario, Canada.
The Boring Ham Radio Part
Ramblings on amateur radio, flying, programming, martial arts, the Macintosh and who knows what.
Operating Permit Information
Info about operarting permissions in other countries
Surfing the jet stream reduces aviation radiation
Last weekend, British Airways Flight 112 made headlines when it flew from New York to London in less than 5 hours, smashing the speed record for subsonic flight. It did it by surfing the jet stream
'WEEKEND OF THE AMERICAN LIGHTHOUSES'
This weekend opens the 12th Edition of the 'WEEKEND OF THE AMERICAN LIGHTHOUSES' from Friday 14 to Sunday, February 16, 2020, with 86 light houses and beacons of 12 countries
NASA TV coverage of Cygnus launch to space station
Northrop Grumman’s next NASA resupply services mission to the International Space Station is targeted for launch at 3:43 p.m. EST Friday, Feb. 14
International Air Ambulance Week 2020
This year's International Air Ambulance Week will take place between 5th and 13th September with the focus on supporting and generating donations for flying medical services around the world
New HF Band Planning Discussion Group
The ARRL has created a new HF Band Planning Discussion Group which is open to both members and non-members
HuskySat-1 Gains Enthusiastic Following
Initial reports indicate considerable interest among amateurs in tracking and capturing data from the newly deployed HuskySat-1. The satellite, designed at the University of Washington, was launched to the International Space Station last November and subsequently deployed into a higher orbit from the ISS on January 31 and began telemetry transmissions on 435.800 MHz. HuskySat-1’s 1,200 bps BPS...
The ARRL International DX Contest (CW) is Just Ahead!
“WOW Signal” Documentary Now Available Online
Retired Ohio State University Professor Robert Dixon, W8ERD, says a documentary about the 1977 discovery of a signal from the cosmos detected by the Ohio State University Radio Telescope is now available from at least one internet video site and was to become available from Amazon and Google Play. The so-called “WOW signal” is regarded as the best candidate for a signal originating from extrate...
New ARRL Repeater Director Now Shipping
The 2020 ARRL Repeater Directory® is now shipping. It includes “crowdsourced” listings contributed by users, repeater owners, and volunteer frequency coordinators. This means more listings that are and updated more often. With 21,000 listings, it’s the most complete printed directory of on-the-air repeaters, covering repeater systems throughout the US and Canada. Repeater systems are listed by s...
Successful 47 GHz Amateur Radio Moonbounce Test Reported
Mitsuo Kasai, JA1WQF, successfully decoded a 47 GHz signal bounced off the moon on February 10 by Al Ward, W5LUA. More tests are planned. Ward posted news of the achievement on the Moon-Net email reflector. “These were one-way tests, with only me transmitting,” he said in his post. “I started out by sending single tones to Mitsuo, which he copied well, and then sent several sequences of calls an...
Calnet Repeater Group
Calnet a multi repeater amateur radio system serving most of California and parts of Nevada. The Calnet system consists of numerous fulltime linked 440 MHz repeaters connecting San Diego to San Francisco and Lake Tahoe.
9H1PI Ivan
Home Page of Ivan, 9H1PI, QRV from the island of Malta on 50 MHz.
K8DAC Saginaw Valley Amateur Radio Association
SVARA - Saginaw Valley Amateur Radio Association
Portail radioamateur F6EZM
DX, webclusters, callbooks, software and hamradio links.
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