AMATEUR RADIO NEWS FROM THE NET

2066- 2100 of 10795 News Items

WIA supporting Binar satellites This year the Board of the WIA agreed to support the upcoming mission 2 that will see satellites: Binar-2, Binar-3 and Binar-4 be deployed from the ISS in the same way as Binar-1 into LEO Radio seized for interfering with police transmissions In Texas, authorities cracked down after a hand-held radio caused emergency interference with police transmissions Young radio amateurs special event The Young Amateurs Radio Club (YARC) will host their first annual youth-organized special event from September 1-15, 2022 Radio amateur awarded six-figure NSF grant The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a grant of $399,211 to Nathaniel Frissell W2NAF, Ph.D., assistant professor physics and electrical engineering at The University of Scranton ARRL Audio News August 5, 2022 EA8BRW DX Blog Spanish DX News blog and dx info portal by EA8BRW Homebrew an OCF Off-Center Fed Dipole Antenna Antennas/OCF This type of antenna is a popular antenna design as the performance is very good across the HF bands and requires little or no tuning. It’s a dipole fed off center with a 4:1 balun at the offset feed point. The antenna shown covers 80, 40, 20 and 10 meters. The formula can also be used to adjust the overall length to cover more or fewer bands and the resulting overall length. 160-10m, 80-10m or 40-10 meters depending on your available space. Other bands will require a tuner. Poldhu ARC Open Day The Poldhu Amateur Radio Club is holding an Open Day on Saturday, the 6 August from 10am Eruption proved continuing importance of shortwave When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai submarine volcano exploded earlier this year, bringing down communications to and from Tonga, RNZ Pacific reverted to shortwave to reach the isolated island nation Free PDF G3XBM Project Scrapbook If you need inspiration for your next project you might find it in this free PDF Connacht Amateur Radio Newsletter The August edition of the free 25 page Connacht Radio News features articles on 3D-Printing for amateur radio and the Nano VNA Speakers and Presentations wanted We are adding presentations and speakers to our Expo website as they come in. So far they are great! We are still looking for additional speakers and presentations in all areas of amateur radio ISS astronaut's favourite ham radio contact NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS, who is on the International Space Station, describes his amateur radio contact with 8-year-old Isabella from Kent, UK, as his favourite so far Miniature CI-V for Icom Radios Technical Reference/Sound Card Radio Interfacing With some fantasy the circuit can be easily assembled on a small scrap of pre-perf board,and then fitted in the DB9 serial connector shell. The interface requires two NPN transistors and few more passive components. ARRL Audio News July 29, 2022 The Pop-Up Vertical 2.0 Antennas/End-Fed Basically, this antenna is a 23-foot wire fed through a 4:1 un-un transformer. This antenna can be easily used in portable operation, for operating all bands from 40-10 meters. Johnnie Walker to join Boom Radio to celebrate the pirates Johnnie Walker is to host a show as part of a range of special programmes on Boom Radio on Sunday 14 August in celebration of the era of the offshore pirate stations Austria: International Youth Day ÖVSV reports that on International Youth Day, August 12, young people in Austria will be permitted to send a greetings message via amateur radio QSL cards and award for receiving SWSU satellites On July 21 ten amateur radio CubeSats built by students at the Southwestern State University were deployed from the ISS. QSL cards and a diploma are available for receiving the SSTV, APRS and Voice messages Sangamon Valley Radio Club to sponsor radio orienteering activities Radio orienteering, also known as amateur radio direction finding (ARDF), is an international sport in which participants use handheld directional radio receivers, a compass, a map, and radio direction finding skills to search for transmitters operating in the 2-meter and 80-meter bands Handheld SSB transceiver for 20m Technical Reference/QRP Projects A mid-power portable/handheld SSB transceiver for 14MHz Tennessee Contest Group The Tennessee Contest Group (a.k.a. TCG) is a group of Amateur Radio operators (hams) who enjoy operating in competitive radio sporting events or contests. Field Day Inverted L Antennas/Wire Inverted L antenna, even if not completely freestanding, it only requires one line to be lauched into a tree to support the end of the horizontal wire. This project is done with a 31-foot Jackite pole for a support and uses six 15-foot radials and one 33-foot radial. Radio Caroline Fundraiser The annual Four Day Fundraiser will run on Radio Caroline and Caroline Flashback until midnight, UK time, on Monday, August 15th, and on Radio Caroline North, live from MV Ross Revenge, until closedown on Sunday, August 14th Isle of Man The Point of Ayre Lighthouse is an active 19th-century lighthouse, sited at the Point of Ayre at the northeastern end of the Isle of Man NASA Administrator statement on Chinese space debris NASA Administrator Bill Nelson released this statement regarding debris from the Chinese Long March 5B rocket New Zealand: WLAN use in the 6 GHz Band New Zealand has now made 5925–6425 MHz available for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) following similar action in the UK and Australia ARISS contact is scheduled with scouts at the Swiss National Scout Jamboree in the Goms Valley, Urlichen Switzerland The downlink frequency for this contact is 145.800 MHZ and may be heard by listeners that are within the ISS-footprint that also encompasses the relay ground station Radio broadcasting still crucial in Sarawak The Borneo Post reports on the importance of radio broadcasting in Sarawak Two new bands for Canadian amateurs RAC reports On July 28, 2022, Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) released an update to a very important document for Canadian Radio Amateurs: 'RBR-4 – Standards for the Operation of Radio Stations in the Amateur Radio Service' CAT Interface for Yaesu FT-817 and FT-100 Radio Equipment/HF Transceivers/Yaesu FT-100 A Rig control CAT interface schematic suitable for both the Yaesu FT-817 and FT-100 transceivers. SARL website The SARL (South African Radio League) IT team would like to thank you for your patience while we sorted out some gremlins in the system EU WRC23 agenda items consultation and RNSS/23cm band study The Chair of IARU Region 1 Spectrum and Regulatory Liaison Committee, Barry Lewis G4SJH, reports on the response to the EU WRC-23 consultation and the CEPT RNSS/23cm band study REF statement regarding 2024 Olympic Games On July 22 France's National Frequency Agency ANFR announced the amateur radio 144/430/1240/2300 MHz bands would be used by the 2024 Olympic Games. REF has now issued a statement QSO Today - Eric Anderson, AF7YQ Eric Anderson, AF7YQ's ham radio interest led him to advanced degrees from MIT and to become Chief Architect and Camera software manager at Apple’s Advanced Technology Group