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Hackaday: RIP John Birkett, Part vendor extraordinaire Jenny List G7CKF writes on Hackaday about John Birkett G8OPP who passed away on April 30 aged 93 RSGB Commonwealth Games activities The Commonwealth Games will be held in Birmingham later this summer. It will see around 4,500 athletes from 72 nations and territories, compete in 19 sports across 14 competition venues Radio hams mill about at John O'Groats The John O'Groat Journal reports members of the Caithness Amateur Radio Society (CARS) took part in a contact event May 7-8 in the British mainland's most northerly mill at John O'Groats RSGB Jubilee activities It isn’t long now until the RSGB’s Platinum Jubilee activities kick off QSO Today Bruce Prior, N7RR Bruce Prior, N7RR, loves to operate SOTA in Washington State’s great outdoors where he has cataloged for SOTA all of the available mountain peaks in the state ARRL Audio News May 20, 2022 Arduino Morse Code Trainer Technical Reference/Arduino/Morse Code How to build a Simplified Arduino CW Trainer, this is a version that does not need a keyboard. Founders' Trophy award Chairman of the ARRL RF Safety Committee Gregory D. Lapin, N9GL, Ph.D., P.E., will receive an award at the 2022 Dayton Hamvention from the Radio Society of Great Britain Man over-board The NRRL News Bulletin details how a Norwegian radio amateur helped a sailor to be rescued AMSAT-UK Space Colloquium AMSAT-UK is very happy to announce the 2022 AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium will be held as part of the RSGB Convention on October 8-9 at the Kents Hill Park Conference Centre, Timbold Drive, Milton Keynes, MK7 6BZ 4U, ITU Geneva The sporadic operating from 4U1ITU will continue until June 3u Franklin Antonio, N6NKF, SK Phil Karn, KA9Q writes: Last night I got the sad news that Franklin Antonio, N6NKF, one of the founders of Qualcomm and my boss for most of my 20 years there, has passed away NSWLC membership and activities The National Short Wave Listeners Club has 83 members. Our weekly Zoom Sunday Socials continue to be popular with an average attendance of 35-40 members Paper Published: Deep space reception of Tianwen-1 by AMSAT-DL using GNU radio This paper by Daniel Estévez EA4GPZ, Mario Lorenz DL5MLO and Peter Gülzow DB2OS describes the reception of the Tianwen-1 Chinese Mars mission carried out by AMSAT-DL with the 20 meter antenna at Bochum Observatory (Germany) AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2022 – Call for speakers This is the first call for speakers for the AMSAT-UK International Space Colloquium 2022 which takes place in Milton Keynes on October 8-9 UR5KBW Mykhaylo ur5kbw personal page with log, station info K1KKM Pentucket Radio Association. A public service amateur radio club. Haverhill, Massachusetts OK1TNM Rudy Personal page with iota and contest info SWR-Display Technical Reference/SWR Meters The intention was to determine also very small SWR ratios with small power exactly. With this SWR meter, for example, the inputs of RF amplifiers with power < -20 dBm can be measured. In German Hamvention to kick off this weekend in Xenia; Thousands expected to attend After nearly three years, Hamvention is back. The convention is the world’s largest amateur radio gathering at Greene County Expo Center, according to the event’s website Amateur radio observations help monitor space weather Amateur radio observations provide a new method for studying large-scale ionospheric disturbances and HF communication impacts, and are important applications in ionospheric space weather monitoring ARISS contact is scheduled with students at Forum AccademicoItalianoe.V., Köln, Germany The ARISS amateur radio ground station (telebridge station) for this contact is in Paardekraal, South Africa. The amateur radio volunteer team at the ground station will use the callsign ZS6JON, to establish and maintain the ISS connection The 415 Amateur Radio Club announces Summer Field Day The 415 Amateur Radio Club of Crystal Lake, IL will celebrate its 5th Anniversary by again participating in the ARRL’s 2022 Summer Field Day Video: The importance of Ham Radio in disasters Craig Fugate KK4INZ was FEMA Administrator during hurricane Katrina and saw firsthand how important radio amateurs are in a disaster Amateur Question Pools Technician, General and Extra question pools in different formats by NCVEC I5HGM KiwiSDR Internet and Radio/WebSDR A software defined receiver located in Tuscany Italy with a Windom antenna convering HF bands Kern County Central Valley Amateur Radio Club KI7NEW Morse Code Trainer Technical Reference/Arduino/Morse Code The Trainer is based on a simple modular built STEM/game platform, plus newly developed interactive software,it contains six training routines, easy to advance, and consists of various learning aids. You select them from a menu. Feedback for menu selection is given audibly and through an LED display and serial monitor. How old is the SARL? How old is the SARL really? We have recently come across information from a couple of old scrapbooks from the garage of a radio amateur, that he got from a deceased estate, which indicates that the SARL could be older than we think Amateur Radio support for Ukraine Mother's Day event WIA News reports tens of thousands of mothers and children have left their home without a father, heading to the safety of nearby countries and away from the war-zone WIA Merit Awards announced at 2022 AGM There were eight (8) WIA Merit Awards announced at the WIA AGM First YOTA contest session May 21 IARU Region 1 reports the first YOTA contest session of 2022 is coming up soon on May 21 World-Wide Digital Contest June 4-5 In this video Matthew K0LWC talks about the new World-Wide Digital Contest (WWDC) that will take place June 4-5 IARU Region 1 interim meeting in June NRRL reports the IARU Region 1 interim meeting will take place on June 23, 2022, with activities also on June 24-25, during the HAM Radio Fair in Friedrichshafen Mid Ulster Amateur Radio Club Ham Radio Club from County Armagh Northern Ireland