08/21/2016 AMSAT has invited proposals for papers, symposium presentations, and poster presentations on any topic of interest to the Amateur Satellite community for the 2016 AMSAT-NA Annual Meeting and Space Symposium. The Space Symposium will be held November 10-14, 2016. … Continue reading →
08/20/2016 In a 2116 UTC status update on Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) operations in Louisiana, Assistant Section Manager Matt Anderson, KD5KNZ, said that Louisiana ARES is in the process of deactivating from the recent flood response, and the need … Continue reading →
08/19/2016 Conditions turned a little more favorable since last week’s bulletin with both solar flux and sunspot numbers up, and geomagnetic indices substantially lower. Average daily sunspot numbers for the August 11-17 period were 73.9, compared to 52 for the … Continue reading →
08/19/2016 ARRL Chief Technology Officer Brennan Price, N4QX, will be the featured banquet speaker at the 35th annual ARRL/TAPR Digital Communication Conference (DCC) September 16-18 in St Petersburg, Florida. His topic will be “New Frontiers in Wireless: Challenges to and … Continue reading →
08/19/2016 Young people in Indiana will have a chance to find out firsthand about life aboard the International Space Station, thanks to the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program. Ten students at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis … Continue reading →
Radio amateurs in Portugal have intensified the search for GPS buoys that are illegally operating and intruding on 10 meters. A recent International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 Monitoring System (IARUMS-R1) report indicated that one such buoy was operating 24/7 … Continue reading →
08/18/2016 International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend (ILLW) is this weekend — August 20-21 (always the third weekend in August). The 2-day event gets under way at 0001 UTC on August 20 and continues until 2400 UTC on August 21. Radio amateurs … Continue reading →
08/18/2016 When the power went out on June 4 at both the Huntington Gardens and Five Points senior residences in Huntington Beach, California, Huntington Beach RACES (HBRACES) and Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteers promptly activated to help. Each residential … Continue reading →
08/17/2016 September is National Preparedness Month. As part of its focus on community education and preparation, FEMAoffers a “Family Emergency Communications Plan” to help families work out their communication strategies in the event of an emergency. ARRL is partnering with … Continue reading →
08/17/2016 The Red Cross continues to request Amateur Radio volunteers to support communication at shelters housing evacuees from flooding of historic proportions in Louisiana. The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) in Louisiana has activated, and Section Emergency Coordinator Adam Tamplain, … Continue reading →