11/15/2016 The Quarter Century Wireless Association (QCWA) and the Radio Club of America (RCA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work together on a number of mutually beneficial future endeavors, including efforts to promote career interest in the … Continue reading →
11/15/2016 The results are in, and more than 90 submitted entries for the November 3 running of the Frequency Measuring Test (FMT). Thirty stations were able to pull off a “triple play” by correctly measuring the frequencies of all three … Continue reading →
11/14/2016 Texas radio amateur and FCC Part 5 Experimental licensee John Langridge, KB5NJD/ WG2XIQ, reported “an amazing night” for the 630-meter special event on November 12-13. One highlight was a North America-to-Europe Amateur Radio contact on the medium-wave band, to … Continue reading →
11/14/2016 The International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 (IARU-R1) Monitoring System (IARUMS) reports that the Russian military apparently responded positively to a complaint from German telecommunications authorities to eliminate an intruding signal on 20 meters. The Russian Navy “RDL” signal from … Continue reading →
11/11/2016 Astronauts Peggy Whitson, KC5ZTD, and Thomas Pesquet, KG5FYG, and Cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy will head into space on November 17 for a 6-month stay aboard the International Space Station. NASA Television coverage will begin at 1730 UTC on November 16. … Continue reading →
11/11/2016 “Dream 1” (CAS-2T), a “technical verification satellite” for the CAMSAT CAS-2 series of Amateur Radio satellites, was launched on November 9 on board a Long March CZ-11 rocket. Developed by middle school students with the support of China’s Academy … Continue reading →
11/11/2016 The December Digital QST is now available at http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/arrl/qst_201612/. ● See the 2016 ARRL Field Day results. ● Build a simple APRS tracker. ● Weatherize your outdoor inductors and traps. ● Build a multiband fan dipole antenna. …and much … Continue reading →
11/11/2016 Participants in the ARRL WD2XSH 630-meter experiment, Canadian radio amateurs, and members of the Maritime Radio Historical Society (MRHS) will join together for a special event operation on Sunday, November 13 (UTC) on 630 meters (the evening of Saturday, November … Continue reading →
11/11/2016 At 0002 UTC on November 9, this geomagnetic warning was distributed by Australia’s Space Forecast Centre: SUBJ: SWS GEOMAGNETIC DISTURBANCE WARNING 16/48 ISSUED AT 0002UT/09 NOVEMBER 2016 BY THE AUSTRALIAN SPACE FORECAST CENTRE. INCREASED GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY EXPECTED DUE TO … Continue reading →
11/10/2016 The dawn of so-called “smart” — or cognitive — radio has presented Amateur Radio with an opportunity to regain the leading edge in radio technology in the near future. It will also alter our view of spectrum as a limited … Continue reading →