Three national Union JACK radio stations disappear from DAB
Union JACK Radio, Union JACK Dance and Union JACK Rock have all disappeared suddenly from the national SDL DAB multiplex
Ukraine: Poland's radio amateurs provide WinLink email links
Members of Poland's national Amateur Radio society PZK (Polski Związek Krótkofalowców) are providing WinLink email communications links in the 1.8, 3.5 and 14 MHz bands
Messages from radio amateurs in Ukraine
On the morning of Thursday, February 24, the Ukrainian Amateur Radio League (UARL / LRU) circulated a message to radio amateurs world-wide and another to amateurs in Ukraine
Section Manager Election Results Announced
Two Section Manager elections were held during the winter season, and the ballots were counted at ARRL Headquarters on Tuesday, February 22. In Virginia, Jack R. Smith, KE4LWT, of Ruckersville received 889 votes, and Terry Buzzard, KA8TNF, of Virginia Beach, received 412 votes. Smith was declared elected and will begin his first 2-year term on April 1. Smith has served as an Assistant Section Em...
The 5 MHz Newsletter Marks 10 Years
The first edition of The 5 MHz Newsletterappeared in the autumn of 2011, heralding the growth of the new 60-meter band to serve as a propagation bridge between 40 and 80 meters. The newsletter, edited by Paul Gaskell, G4MWO, offers official news of new allocations and regulations as well as feedback from operators. As a band, the US authorized a group of Experimental License operators to use 60...
Greece - RAAG
Radio Amateur Association of Greece
SWL Logger
Software/Shortwave
A shortwave radio listeners log book runs on Windows and MacOS Catalina and above. The KB6IBB SWL Logger is a program designed for the shortwave radio listener. It offers shortwave specific logging of stations, with most tasks handled automatically. The program also incorporates the use of EiBi shortwave database for logging and looking up various known shortwave stations world wide.
90th anniversary of JU52/3m maiden flight
The German club for aviation and amateur radio Flieger-Funk-Runde, the DARC clubs Dessau (W18), ZAB Dessau (W22), Koenigs Wusterhausen (Y07), Ludwigslust (V28), Mittweida (S44), and the Swiss special event station HB90JU commemorate the first official flight of the JU52/3m aircraft on March 7 in 1932
EI0MAR Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio in Howth
Tony, EI5EM, has good news to report regarding Ye Olde Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio in the Martello tower in Howth
How to capture satellite images
Sophie Dyer M6NYX and Sasha Engelmann M6IOR have written an article about how they used amateur radio tech to capture and decode images from NOAA Satellites for #COP26 – and how you can do the same
Electronic voting for the SARL annual financial statements
In terms of Rule 8.9, the SARL Annual Financial Statements for the Year ended 30 June 2021 were uploaded to the SARL website on Friday 21 January 2022 and a SARL Communication was sent to Members on the same date
WRC-23 Agenda and relevant resolutions now available
The ITU have made the Agenda and relevant resolutions for the World Radiocommunication Conference 2023 (#WRC23) available as a free PDF
RSGB 2022 Convention
The RSGB is planning a hybrid Convention in October this year that will combine the benefits of meeting in person with access to high-quality content online for those who can’t attend
Amateur Radio ban – Ukraine
Ukraine has declared a state of emergency in all of Ukraine except for eastern Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts starting on Feb. 24
ARISS Seeks Hosts for Ham Radio Contacts with Space Station Crew Members
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is accepting applications until March 31 from US schools, museums, science centers, and community youth organizations (working individually or together) interested in hosting contacts with International Space Station (ISS) crew members. Contacts will be scheduled between January 1 and June 30, 2023. Proposal information and additional det...
The 6CL6-807 Transmitter
Technical Reference/Homebrew
This page is a detailed description of a 6CL6 and 807 valve transmitter. The page includes the complete circuit diagram to build this transmitter and several pictures
ARISS contact is scheduled for students at Sussex County Charter School for Technology, Sparta, NJ, USA
This will be a direct contact via amateur radio between students at the Sussex County Charter School for Technology, Sparta, New Jersey and Astronaut Mark Vande Hei, amateur radio call sign KG5GNP
The 5 MHz Newsletter celebrates its 10th birthday
The latest edition of The 5 MHz Newsletter now available for download
Online Talk: Soldering for Beginners
On Wednesday, February 23, Denby Dale Amateur Radio Society will have an online meeting on Soldering for Beginners, all are welcome to join the Zoom session
IRTS Commmittee Nominations
There seems to have been much confusion recently on how members are elected to the IRTS committee
Ottawa Police Scanner
Internet and Radio/Police Scanners
Listen to live police scanner OPP, EMS, MTO, FIRE from Ottawa Canada
QRP Transceiver for 15m
Technical Reference/QRP Projects/QRP CW Transceiver
This is a CW 1W transceiver with only three transistor. The author has been able to make QSO by this little transceiver with Saga, Asahikawa (domestic far distance city),and Indonesia and Taiwan.
FreeDV - Digital Voice for HF bands
Operating Modes/Digital Voice
FreeDV uses an audio codec as a software based modem to decode and encode the voice and text data from your computer. The data is encoded and then is transmitted over the HF radio using AF signals that can then in turn be decoded by the receiving station.
SM1000 FreeDV Adaptor
Ham Radio Equipment The Basics
Operating Aids/Beginner's Guides
This article help on explaining what you need to start with amateur radio. By using a local ham radio club station to purchasing second hand radio equipment and how to get help on installing antennas.
Ionospheric Propagation of Radio Waves
Propagation/Beginner's Guide
Ionospheric Propagation of Radio Waves in Action, How Do Ionized Layers Form to Enable Ionospheric Propagation of Radio Waves, the foundamental role of F layer, and the role of the other ionized layers
A 160 Meter Antenna Hybrid Design
Antennas/160M
This antenna looks like an inverted L antenna, yet it is not, it could also be viewed as a 160m off-center fed dipole antenna, it looks more like an end-fed 1/4 wave 160 meter antenna.
ARRL Headquarters will be Closed on Monday, February 21
ARRL Headquarters will be closed on Monday, February 21 in observance of Presidents Day, and there will be no W1AW bulletin or CW practice transmissions on that day. ARRL Headquarters will reopen on Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at 8 AM EST (1300 UTC).
Two Tone Generator
Technical Reference/Test Equipment/Signal Generator
A two tone generator is an essential test gear made with just four transistors that helps you evaluate your amplifiers, mixers, receivers for distortion. Distortion makes all the difference between a pleasant receiver and a horrible sounding one, between a clean transmitter and bad, splattering one on air.
Specan Spectrum analyzer
Technical Reference/Spectrum Analyzers
The Specan is actually a very simple but robustly built receiver. it is, in essence, a double conversion superhet receiver with 112 Mhz and 12 Mhz Intermediate frequencies. The first mixer uses an Si570 as the local oscillator. The Ardiuno that controls the Specan is a very flexible microcontroller board that you can program in simple C language
A Simple Dual-band Transceiver
Technical Reference/HF Radios
This a well performing, simple two band transceiver. The transceiver design is inspired by the S7C superhet. A dual-band transceiver with a crisp receiver and a clean SSB signal
BITX QRP RTX
Technical Reference/HF Radios
An easy to build 6 watts SSB transceiver for 14MHz. BITX is an easily assembled transceiver for the beginner with very clean performance. Using ordinary electronic components and improvising where specific components like toroids are not available, It has a minimum number of coils to be wound.
AGCW-DL QRP Contest
DX Resources/Contest
The AGCW-DL invites all radio amateurs to participate in the annual QRP CONTEST. Annually on the second Saturday in March from 1400 to 2000 UTC. 80-10 meters bands except WARC
South Gobi Region, Mongolia
Mats, RM2D (SM6LRR), will be active as JT4RR from South Gobi Region, Mongolia, between March 20th and April 5th. He also mentions that sometime in March-April and in July-August, he is planning a few days of activity as JT4RR/P from the South Gobi Desert
Crozet Island DXpedition
After the permission granted by the TAAF and the DXpedition announcement, time has come to gather the equipment and move forward with the preparations. As you can see on the picture below, talks are extensive!
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