12/30/2015 ARRL Headquarters will be closed on New Year’s Day, Friday, January 1, 2016. There will be no W1AW bulletins or code practice on January 1, and there will be no editions of The ARRL Letter or ARRL Audio News … Continue reading →
12/30/2015 The Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) is quoted in the UK Spectrum Usage & Demand Second Report, saying that it believes current Amateur Radio primary allocations are insufficient. The RSGB pointed out that there are no primary ham … Continue reading →
12/30/2015 Deutschlandradio will close down its medium-wave (MW) transmitters in Germany on December 31. The shutdown of the seven transmitters marks the end of German-language programming transmitted from Germany in that part of the spectrum. On the same day medium-wave Radio France … Continue reading →
12/29/2015 The ARRL has again complained to the FCC to allege illegal marketing of electronic RF lighting ballasts, operating under Part 18 of the Commission’s rules, on the part of two major retailers. Letters went out this week to the … Continue reading →
12/29/2015 The Central States VHF Society (CVHFS) is soliciting papers, presentations, and poster displays about any aspect of weak-signal VHF-and-above operating for the 50th annual CSVHFS Conference to be held in Rochester, Minnesota July 28-31, 2016. Authors do not need … Continue reading →
12/29/2015 According to Part 2 of the 2015 CQ World Wide Contests survey results, contesters want to see a time-limited category for single operators. In September the CQ WW Contest Committee surveyed everyone who had submitted a log in the … Continue reading →
12/29/2015 The EO-79 CubeSat SSB/CW transponder is again active and will remain in operation until New Year’s Eve, December 31. An earlier activation this month showed that the transponder uplink is about 12 kHz higher than expected. The suggested frequencies … Continue reading →
12/29/2015 Radio amateurs will attempt an Earth-Moon-Earth (EME, or “moonbounce”) transmission on January 10, using the 60 foot diameter TLM-18 dish on the former “Project Diana” site, now part of the InfoAge Science History Museum in New Jersey. This month’s … Continue reading →
12/29/2015 Temporary permission for radio amateurs in Spain to operate at 5 MHz ended in November, but World Radiocommunication Conference 2015 established a new 15 kHz Amateur Radio allocation at 5 MHz. At the request of URE, Spain’s IARU member … Continue reading →
12/28/2015 The ARRL RTTY Roundup over the January 2-3 weekend is a veritable digital festival, so dust off those keyboards! In addition to conventional Baudot, RTTY Roundup ops may use ASCII, AMTOR, PSK31, and Packet (attended). It’s very easy to … Continue reading →