30 January, 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 NA-008; VY0, Nunavut (Ellesmere Island) group: VY0ERC, the Eureka Amateur Radio Club, will Read more…
Month: January 2019
ISS SSTV expected to start today….
Slow Scan Television (SSTV) transmissions from the International Space Station are expected to take place on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Jan 30-Feb 1 SSTV setup and activation is expected to start around 13:30 GMT and end about 18:30 GMT on Read more…
A large hole in the Sun’s atmosphere…..
SOLAR WIND, INCOMING: During solar minimum, long-lasting holes open in the sun’s atmosphere, releasing streams of solar wind into space. One of those holes is facing Earth now, and it’s a big one: We’ve seen this hole before. It opened in Read more…
[RAC-Bulletin] Neil Carleton, VE3NCE, Inducted into Canadian Amateur Radio Hall of Fame
https://wp.rac.ca/neil-carleton-inducted-into-canadian-amateur-radio-hall-of-fame/ Richard Ferch, VE3KI (RAC Regulatory Affairs) and John Grow, VE2EQL (CARHOF Trustee) present the Hall of Fame plaque to a smiling Neil Carleton, VE3NCE (centre) On Saturday, January 19, 2019, with temperatures hovering at -24 Celsius, 50 Almonte Read more…
IOTA News from OPDX….
28 January, 2019 Island activities: AF-018. Operators Dimitar/LZ1UQ and Ivan/LZ1PM will be active as IH9/LZ1UQ and IH9/LZ1PM from Pantelleria Island until January 31st or February 1st. Both were active this past weekend in the CQWW 160m Contest. Activity on other Read more…
ZW85LABRE celebrates 85th anniversary of LABRE….
The League of Brazilian Amateur Radio Transmitters, LABRE, has obtained the special event callsign ZW85LABRE which is valid from February 1 until March 31, 2019 The Liga de Amadores Brasileiros de Rádio Emissão (LABRE) was founded February 2, 1934. A Google translation of the Read more…
DX News from the ARRL….
25 January, 2018 This week’s bulletin was made possible with information provided by VE3FU, The Daily DX, 425 DX News, DXNL, Contest Corral from QST and the ARRL Contest Calendar and WA7BNM web sites. Thanks to all. TUNISIA, 3V. Ash, Read more…
IOTA News from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club….
23 January, 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-018; IH9, Pantelleria Island: Dimitar/LZ1UQ and Ivan/LZ1PM will be active as IH9/LZ1UQ and Read more…
Ham radio in the Golden Globe Race….
A sailing news article suggests some sailors in the Golden Globe Race have been operating in the amateur radio bands using made-up callsigns For some reason the article references an entirely unrelated instance that occurred in 2015 when the UK Read more…
IOTA News from OPDX….
21 January, 2019 Island activities: AF-019. (Update) Operators Silvo/S50X, Krajcar/S52P, Peter/S54W, Pavla/S56DX, Slavko/S57DX and Drago/S59A, will be active as IG9/homecall from Lampedusa Island between January 21-31st. Activity will be on 160-10 meters, and this will include the CQWW DX 160m Read more…