Month: August 2018

Don Studney, VE7DS, of the Delta Amateur Radio Society and Keith Witney, VE7KW, of the North Shore Amateur Radio Club will be presented with the RAC Amateur of the Year award on September 11 at a dinner meeting of the Read more…

This summer, something strange has been happening in the mesosphere – a layer of Earth’s atmosphere so high that it nearly touches space. The mesosphere is the realm of noctilucent clouds, electric-blue glowing forms that are seeded by meteor smoke. Read more…

16 August, 2018 Island activities: IOTA QRGs CW: 28040 24920 21040 18098 14040 10114 7030 3530 kHz SSB: 28560 28460 24950 21260 18128 14260 7055 3760 kHz AF-064; ZS, Western Cape Province South West group: A team consisting of Jan/ZS1VDV, Read more…

https://wp.rac.ca/international-lighthouse-lightship-weekend-this-weekend-august-18-19/ The International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend (ILLW) has been held on the third full weekend each August since 1998. This year the event will be held this coming weekend on August 18-19. The ILLW website (https://illw.net/) describes the event as follows: “The ILLW Read more…

The purpose of this experimental web site is to provide 24-7-365 actual (REALTIME) band condition information to CW QRPp, QRPe and CW/SSB for Contesters interested in increasing their scores. It can also be of benefit to other Radio Amateurs to Read more…

ARRL report the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) FY 2019 budget request includes shutting down “NIST radio stations in Colorado and Hawaii” — in other words, WWV and WWVH Radio amateurs, HF listeners, and others around the world Read more…

13 August, 2018 Island activities: AS-120. Members of DX World team (Emil/DL8JJ, Paul/G4PVM, Col/MM0NDX) will be teaming up again, this time with Norman/5B4AIF to activate the island Ayios Yeoryios in the Cyprus’s Coastal Islands Group between August 25-27th. Their callsign Read more…

10 August, 2018 This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by F6AJA, The Daily DX, the OPDX Bulletin, 425 DX News, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. Read more…

The Perseid meteor shower is underway… Earth is entering a stream of debris from giant comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, parent of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Although the shower is not expected to peak until next weekend, NASA all-sky cameras are already detecting dozens Read more…

The Ecuadorian telecoms regulator, ARCOTEL, has authorized operation on 5 MHz under the new WRC-15 Secondary Allocation 5351.5 – 5366.5 kHz with a maximum power of 25W EIRP. See p.41. http://www.arcotel.gob.ec/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Resoluci%C3%B3n-12-09-ARCOTEL-2017_completa_con-firmas-11.pdf Bosnia & Herzegovina have also been authorized by their Read more…