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EURAO individual members by country in 2021 Once the 2021 financial year has been closed and the draft financial report prepared, today we want to highlight an interesting aspect of that report: from which countries do the individual members of EURAO come? The future is knocking Michael Wehnert OZ5WU, of the National Executive Committee of Denmark's IARU member society the EDR, has written an article 'The future is knocking' A radio ham for 67 years KTUU TV News interviews John Bury KL7QZ about his 67 years as a amateur radio operator Ofcom: The future of mobile markets and spectrum Ofcom has set out their initial thinking on how UK mobile markets might develop and how networks may need to evolve to meet future demand. They have also set out how they might adapt their approach accordingly WRTH 2022 B21 updates A pdf of updates to the B21 schedules in the International section of WRTH 2022 is now available free of charge Beijing Winter Olympics special event ham radio station The national amateur radio society CRAC reports special event station BY1CRA/WO22 is now active on FT8, SSB and CW and will operate until the games close Detection of the 8.4 GHz signal from Voyager 1 The video of the Voyager 1 presentation given by radio amateur Daniel Estévez M0HXM / EA4GPZ at the Fosdem 2022 event is now available Tom and Jimmy slay the dragon - again! In May 2021, father-and-son SOTA activators Tom Read M1EYP and Jimmy Read M0HGY (the G SOTA Association Manager), completed activating every SOTA summit in Wales - or so they thought! RSGB releases Nominations Committee minutes The RSGB has now released the minutes for the January 2021 and December 2021 Nominations Committee meetings, prior to this no minutes had been released since 2018 APRS developer Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, SK The creator of the Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS), Bob Bruninga, WB4APR, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, died on February 7. An ARRL Life Member, Bruninga was 73 Geomagnetic storm brings down Starlink satellites As many as 40 Starlink satellites are currently falling out of the sky--the surprising result of a minor geomagnetic storm last week Radio Emma Toc - celebrating wireless station 2MT - at 100! I'm pleased to let you know that I will be broadcasting another video stream this coming Monday, 14th February, with the theme of celebrating wireless station 2MT Platinum Jubilee NoV now available The RSGB has published the Notice of Variation (NoV) that will enable radio amateurs licensed by Ofcom to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen by using the special RSL ‘Q’ SARC Shelby Radio Club Setting the pace in Cleveland County Amateur Radio for over 50 years. ARRL Affiliated / Sponsor for ARES (amateuer radio emergency service) of Cleveland County, NC. Sponsor of the famous Shelby Hamfest Sita audio recorder Software/Audio Recorders Sita is a small tool that permanently records an input of the sound card into the working memory and repeats the last 10 seconds if needed. This is ideal for connecting the radio to the Line In of the sound card and, if you have not understood something, to have the last 10 seconds repeated. MLOG Software/Logging MLog is a legacyfreeware hamradio logging software for windows. It has been tested on Windows XP, written by hams for hams. The software will be currently updated and improved. GI-QRP Convention Preparations are well underway for the GI-QRP convention in association with the GQRP Club Foundation Online training course statistics Essex Ham have produced a very informative statistics page covering their free Foundation Online amateur radio courses as of January 2022 SolderSmoke podcast 235 available Bill Meara M0HBR / N2CQR has released a new edition of the amateur radio SolderSmoke podcast Radio Caroline North February 2022 Join us over the weekend of 12th-13th February for the second Radio Caroline North broadcast of 2022, live from our radio ship Ross Revenge Parks on the Air radio ham in the press The Weirton Daily Times carries a story on Parks On The Air (POTA) amateur radio enthusiast Paul Brandt W8PAB Radio amateurs make contacts in global winter training NBC Montana TV News reports that in January radio amateurs conducted a training exercise to help mitigate potential emergency situations Saint Patrick’s Day Award The organisers of the Saint Patrick’s Day Award are excited to announce the launch of a new web page where visitors can learn everything they need to know about the Saint Patrick’s day award New Westminster Amateur Radio Club In 1996 the NWARC was formed and is a non-profit society organized to deliver communication services during emergencies. Chinese uSDX Review Radio Equipment/HF Transceivers A review of the Chinese version of uSDX USDR HF QRP Transceiver. Author made an extensive review of receiver and transmitter features. Sandton Fox Hunt Richard, ZR6DE, the hunt coordinator of the Sandton Amateur Radio Club, reports that whilst rain impacted on the participation, three intrepid Fox hunters had fun dodging the odd raindrop and finding the Fox in its waterproof furry raincoat Healthy hams USKA, the Union of Swiss Radio Amateurs, has launched a health initiative for its members. Not trying to replace the GP, but recognizing that older YLs and OMs would like to exchange their experiences and support each other when confronted with health issues Nordic HF Conference A series of Nordic Conferences on HF communications was initiated in 1986 when HF86 was held in Sweden Is your repeater on the ICASA online system? South Africa's Repeater Working Group reminds all beacon and repeater custodians to ensure that all Club repeater licenses are updated, paid, and moved to the new ICASA online portal DXCC Most Wanted list The 'DXCC Most Wanted' entities list has been updated on ClubLog as of February 3rd. The list contains 340 entities Italy's ARI release 2021 membership statistics The national amateur radio society in Italy, ARI, reports they only lost 13 members in 2021 but the membership is aging Finland: Magazine highlights Norway's proposal to attract youngsters Finland's national amateur radio society SRAL has made the latest issue of their magazine Radio Amateur available free for everyone to read as a convenient PDF ARISS contact for students in Donaueschingen, Germany This will be a direct contact via amateur radio. Students will ask questions to Matthias Maurer, amateur radio call sign KI5KF W6RHC GEARS GEARS was organized on August 13, 1939 by a group of eleven hams from towns throughout the North Sacramento Valley area. Interlock Monitor Software/Contesting The Interlock Monitor (IM) program allows you to control and monitor the Interlock device from any computer in your network. The Interlock is an equipment designed to be used by contesters where they need to check, supervise and limit, how many radios are in transmission at any given time