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American ISPs fined $75,000 for fuzzing airport's weather radar by stealing spectrum The Register reports: Three ISPs will be fined $25,000 apiece by America's broadband watchdog, the FCC, for interfering with weather signals in Puerto Rico Satellite Status and Tracking API's added to AMSAT website Thanks to an initiative by Heimir, W1ANT, AMSAT added Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to the AMSAT web site to make it easy for developers to write apps for mobile devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) Variation to talkSPORT’s national analogue licence Ofcom has approved talkSPORT’s request to change its national analogue radio licence, following a consultation DK3ZL visiting southern Africa from 17 January to 18 March Dr Charly Eichhorn, DK3ZL is visiting southern Africa from 17 January to 18 March. In Namibia, he will operate as V51QO with activity on the QO-100 satellite and as V5/DK3ZL at other times using SSB and CW Full-fibre broadband in the UK The briefing paper Full-fibre broadband in the UK is now available for download from the House of Commons library QSO Today Amateur Radio Podcast George Byrkit - K9TRV George Byrkit, K9TRV, was first licensed in 1966, in Madison, Wisconsin. He returned to amateur radio as a licensee many years after letting that Novice license expire Sweden: New rules for ham radio permit applications The SSA reports applications for amateur radio permits will now take 2-3 weeks longer due to National Security considerations BNetzA takes action against non-compliant devices In 2019, BNetA, the German Federal Network Agency, blocked 4.5 million unsafe products that can cause radio interference or electromagnetic incompatibilities WA9ORC The Chicago FM Club WA9ORC - Chicago Illinois McMinn County Amateur Radio Club McMinn County Amateur Radio Club, Inc. in Athens, TN. K7LHC London Bridge Amateur Radio Club Lake Havasu City Arizona USA CE5BYU Radio Club Los Angeles Radio Club Santa Maria de Los Angeles, Chile VE3SKY Skywide Amateur Radio Club The Skywide Club, established in 1952, has been serving the amateur community for four decade YC5NBX Jaka Simple Homebrew HAM blog from indonesia W1NPP Androscoggin Amateur Radio Club Ham radio club in Maine USA Wireless Association of South Hills Serving the South Hills area of Pittsburgh, PA USA Amateur Radio HF Band Plan Download the PDF with USA Amateur radio HF band plan and common country prefixes updated in 2008 by Icom PVRA, Inc Repeater Club PVRA Repeater Club has repeaters throughout Connecticut. Raspberry Pi and Automatic NOAA Satellite Reception Technical Reference/Raspberry Pi How to receive automatically NOAA wather satellite images with a Raspberry Pi and a RTL SDR. This project requires a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B a common NooElec SDR Dongle and a QFH Antenna in the attic. Article explains how to setup and configure software but no instructions on antenna. 6m and 4m Vertical Dipole Antenna Antennas/4M The two dipoles are parallel with a distance of 12 cm and are also fed in parallel. The total length of the 4 m dipole is 208 cm and the 6 m dipole is 280 cm. Propagation de K7RA Solar Cycle 25 sunspots persisted for the first two days (January 9-10) of this reporting week, January 9-15, with daily sunspot numbers of 14 and 11. That brought the weekly average daily sunspot number from 8.4 last week to 3.6. Average daily solar flux edged up from 71.8 to 72.5 Special certificate to celebrate 30 years of LUSAT AMSAT-LU will be issuing a special certificate to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the launch of LUSAT (LO-19) during LUSAT week which takes place January 18-26, 2020 RAC President attends ARRL Board Meeting Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) President Glenn MacDonell, VE3XN, attended the annual Board of Directors meeting of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) in Windsor, Connecticut, January 17-18 VK6WIA NewsWest NewsWest this week is the New Amateurs Edition, where we congratulate and acknowledge those with new or upgraded callsigns or licenses, and where we share information useful for new Hams, including New Hams the series where I take a look at learning opportunities Ofcom Consultation: Improving spectrum access for Wi-Fi Ofcom wishes to boost the use of Wi-Fi in Amateur Radio spectrum at 5725-5850 MHz Ham radio Winter Field Day Members of the Roanoke Valley Amateur Radio Club will be participating in the National Amateur Radio Winter Field Day Exercise, January 25 and 26, 2020 ARISS educational radio contact with school in Toronto, Canada An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, Canada Foundations of Amateur Radio The lessons we teach - When you become a member of the amateur radio community you become part of a small group of humans who know and understand certain aspects of life. That's not to say that others don't share this or that the knowledge is unique or special, but radio amateurs are required to know this before they receive their license 160/80m Coaxial Receiving Loop Antennas Receiving loop antenna for top band. This antenna allow to reduce noise on both bands. The stand alone 80m loop is approximately four feet in diameter. And made of light weight material. Which makes it ideal for portable use or you can mount it above a pre-existing vhf antenna, and due to it's small size it is quite rotatable. Vacuum Tube Software The VTDATA software package is a complete vacuum tube manual on your computer. It has all the information you'd expect in a tube manual. VTDATA's database also includes vacuum tubes of historical interest, such as the early "two digit" types (45, 80, etc.) and hi-fi audio types. WA7BNM Contest Calendar Complete listing of upcoming ham radio contests, including rule summaries of this week's contests. You can also subscribe to his email service. New ham radio magazine 'On the Air' The ARRL has launched the bi-monthly amateur radio magazine On the Air and has made the premier issue freely available to read on the internet ARRL launches 'On the Air' - a new podcast for beginner-to-intermediate amateur radio operators For those who are just getting started on their journey in amateur radio, ARRL is launching a new podcast aimed at providing support and encouragement to help you get the most out of this hobby Tony's 10m Band Report Best days of the week were Saturday and Sunday. Certainly seems that the DARC contest helped. Best DX EW1I (Belarus), ZC4UW (Cyprus), 3D2DJ (Fiji), OY1OF DZ, CT (all Faroe Is) rare birds indeed. Check out OY1OF’s QRZ web page. Incredible DX News from the ARRL The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity on the amateur radio bands