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 →
12/28/2015 In an effort to test a new autobaud selection feature in a new version of the Fox satellite telemetry software FoxTelem, the AO-85 Operations Team will conduct some experimental sessions with AO-85 on December 29-30. AMSAT encourages telemetry collectors … Continue reading →
12/28/2015 Santa was good to participants in the ARRL National Parks on the Air (NPOTA) program, which gets under way on January 1. On December 23, the National Park Service (NPS) updated its official list of NPS Administrative Units. As … Continue reading →
12/27/2015 Every day is a good day to operate on CW, but set some time aside on New Year’s Eve and Day to enjoy Straight Key Night (SKN). The annual event gets under way a 000 UTC on January 1 … Continue reading →
12/25/2015 Merry Christmas! This is the first time we have released a bulletin on Christmas Day. The last time Christmas fell on a Friday — our normal day for publishing this bulletin — was back in 2009, and we released … Continue reading →
12/24/2015 Well-known AMSAT figure and Virginia Tech researcher Bob McGwier, N4HY, says the Amateur Radio payload planned to go into geosynchronous orbit in 2017 will be like “a new ham band” for the Americas, available every hour of every day. … Continue reading →