Dutch PACCdigi Contest 2022
This year’s Dutch PACCdigi Contest, sponsored by the Dutch Radio Society VERON, will take place on SUNDAY the 17th of April from 07:00 UTC until 19:00 UTC
The QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo is still open in On-Demand mode
You can still see over 60 presentations with the Q and A that followed over the weekend. Our new Restream technology allowed us to very quickly put the presentations together with the Q and A for viewing now. vFairs extended our On-Demand period for a full month of presentations. Thank You and Great Show
Azores radio amateurs on standby for seismic activity
IARU Region 1 Emergency Communications Co-Ordinator Greg G0DUB reports radio amateurs in the Azores are on standby after a series of earthquakes
New Amateur Radio License Applications Fee To Become Effective April 19, 2022
A Public Notice released by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 23, 2022, in MD Docket No. 20-270, announced that new application fees for Wireless Telecommunications Bureau applications will become effective on April 19, 2022. The new fees, mandated by Congress, apply to applications for Amateur Radio licenses including those associated with filing Form 605, the Amateur Operat...
Ham Payload Going to the Chinese Space Station
The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) satellite frequency coordination panel reports that an application has been submitted for an amateur radio payload to be hosted on the Chinese Tiangong space station. The coordination request states:
"CSSARC is the amateur radio payload for Chinese Space Station, proposed by Chinese Radio Amateurs Club (CRAC), Aerospace System Engineering Research Ins...
K4GSO - Silver Springs Radio Club
The silver springs radio club is the oldest amateur radio club serving ocala
HDSCS Hospital Disaster Support Communications System
A group of ham operators in Orange County, California that has supported over 30 hospitals since 1980. Includes information on how hams can provide hospital support in their own areas.
The W5JGV Loop Antenna
Antennas/Loop
A Shielded Low Frequency Loop Antenna, allows Simultaneous Transmission and Reception at the Same Site.
Vintage Electronics: Principles of Radio Receivers 1949 Technical Training Film superheterodyne
Vintage Electronics: Radio Technology Training film of 1949 covers basic principles of RADIO RECEIVERS. Very technical but well-paced instructional film shows all the major components of RADIO and how they work, using a large wall-sized demonstration panel. Good information for beginner or intermediate level knowledge
International HEMA Day
'HEMA' is an interesting alternative to SOTA and is now 10 years old. Having been exclusively a UK and Eire only programme for many years; recently it has branched out and engaged other DXCCs around the world. It’s now active amongst our friends in Germany, France, Portugal, Spain, Czech Republic, and large parts of Australia
RSGB announce resignation of Board Director
The RSGB has announced that Board member David Hills G6PYF has resigned after just under 11 months in the job
Amateur radio in Belfast in the 1920's
The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has published an article about Eric Megaw 6MU (GI6MU), a radio amateur in Belfast in the 1920's
RSGB 2022 AGM voting now open
There are three resolutions to vote for including the endorsement of two Nominated Board Directors. They have been put forward by the RSGB Nominations Committee but it is RSGB Members who choose whether or not to endorse them
Get on the Air on World Amateur Radio Day April 18, 2022
On Monday, April 18, 2022, Radio Amateurs of Canada is organizing a special on-air event to celebrate World Amateur Radio Day
FCC announce date when US radio hams will be charged for their license
On Wednesday, March 23, the FCC announced it would start charging for US amateur radio licenses on April 19, 2022
PhotoQSLs
Shopping and Services/QSL Printing
Purchase full color QSL cards at single color pricing. Quality and value in fully customized, full color, photo QSLs with discounted re orders!
Ham radio operators tune in to giant waves in the Earth's ionosphere
The very upper layer of our atmosphere is electrically charged and sometimes the electrons up there clump up and form giant waves larger than Texas that zip around the Earth faster than a jet plane!
Satellite snoopers pick up surprising tv broadcast
Imagine the surprise of satellite-watchers than when the Russian polar communications satellite Meridian 9 which has a highly elliptical orbit was seen transmitting old-style terrestrial analogue TV (ThreadReader Link). What on earth was happening?
Meet the amateur radio operators lending their ear in crises
Bharthi Prasad, a well-known ham (amateur radio) operator in India, has helped with several relief operations across the country during natural calamities. Testing times had come once again for her when she saved the lives of terrified Indian students in Ukraine at the beginning of the war, from her radio shack in Saidabad
NASA rolls out space launch system
NASA rolled the Space Launch System, a heavy-duty rocket designed to send astronauts to the moon, out of the iconic Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center on Thursday evening
Owning a shortwave radio is once again a subversive activity
An abiding memory for a teen fascinated by electronics and radio in the 1970s and 1980s is the proliferation of propaganda stations that covered the shortwave spectrum
Australian document on VDSL2 interference problem
Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) has produced a document that suggests radio amateurs cause interference to VDSL2 - reality is it's VDSL2 and the RF pollution it can produce that is the problem
Students get ham radio licenses for high altitude balloon launch
The Enterprise reports two students from the Nash Community College High-Altitude Balloon Team have successfully completed the requirements for their amateur radio technician license
Denmark's EDR takes action against Russia and Belarus
Denmark's national Amateur Radio society the EDR has joined others in banning radio amateurs in Russia and Belarus from participating in any EDF Contest or ARDF event
N2NHU My amateur radio world
Amateur Radio - by N2NHU Jim P. Ames, personal page
Magnetic Loop HF antenna
Antennas/Magnetic Loop
An homebrew HF Magnetic loop made with 2m length of 6mm diameter copper pipe formed into a near circle as the low loss inductor, a short length of coax as a capacitor,a short length of mains cable, again as a fixed tuned capacitor, a tunable 365pF air spaced capacitor, and a small Jackson C804 airspaced variable with a small 3-35pF trimmer in parallel
YOTA Contest 2022 Youth On The Air
We young hams should be aware of a new category introduced this year by CQ magazine in its DX Marathon, which is already under way
Helgoland hop
Over twenty amateur radio operators will activate the German island of Helgoland for two weeks, starting this Friday, the 25th of March
PCGS balloon launch spans globe nine times
The Pella Christian Grade School 8th grade science classes, under the direction of Joanna Settles, launched an amateur radio GPS tracker on a scientific balloon on November 2, 2021 with the Pella Amateur Radio Club
Radio Caroline - 648kHz is on lower power
The Station posted on its website: Our AM 648 transmitter shutdown due to an 'air' fault, which could be due to cooling or a fan fault.
AMSAT booth scheduled for 2022 CubeSat Developers Workshop
The 2022 Cubesat Developers Workshop will be held on April 26-28 at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, California. The workshop, themed “Building the Future of Space Together”, recently announced the schedule for the three day event and is available online
SP DX Contest 2022 cancelled
After careful deliberation, the SP DX Contest Committee, together with Polish Amateur Radio Union (PZK) and the SP DX Club, has decided to cancel the 2022 SP DX Contest
New distance records on the 134 GHz and 241 GHz bands
IARU Region 1 reports that on March 1st and 2nd, DB6NT and DK5NJ made a new distance record on the 134 GHz and 241 GHz amateur radio bands
AMSAT Receives a Grant From ARDC
AMSAT has received a generous grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) for the development of a 3U spaceframe with deployable solar panels. This standardized 3U CubeSat spaceframe will serve as the mechanical platform for AMSAT's Greater Orbit, Larger Footprint (GOLF) series of satellites, as well as for a new generation of low-Earth orbit (LEO) FM satellites.
Central to the develo...
Hamvention 2022 Announces Award Winners
Chairman of the Hamvention Awards Committee Michael Kalter, W8CI, has announced the 2022 Dayton Hamvention® award winners.
Special Achievement Award
Kerry Banke, N6IZW, of La Mesa, California, received the Special Achievement Award. Banke, first licensed in 1961 and now retired, spent most of his career in the research and development of electronics systems as a microwave RF electrical engineer. ...
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